Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic

I’m truly filmi, but I do exercise a reasonable amount of choice in the films I pay to watch. Unless offered complimentary tickets, cause then there’s no exercising.

However, the above decision will change rapidly if Yash Chopra continues to produce the kind of movies that’s sailing his boat off late. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Tahsan and now TPTM (I’m a quick learner)

The movie has its good parts and bad parts. The concept was nice. A rich Casanova with all the money in the world that can’t buy him love gets handed over four children who he has to look after till the youngest one turns 18. What did he do to deserve this? He ran over their parents in a car crash and killed them. What did they do to deserve any of this? It’s a movie, do you want to listen or not?

And now for the bad parts. So they move in with him and a single agenda - revenge. All they have to do is, make him seem unsuitable as a guardian and he’ll be behind bars for 20 yrs, no bail. If he even as much as lifts a finger, leaves them unsupervised, makes them unhappy, or feel neglected, they can tell on him when the judge comes to check in a month.

Enter Geeta – the Pari, (an angel) who comes down to earth, to make hearts meet. To bridge the gap between Ranbeer Talwar – Saif Ali Khan and the four kids, whose names he never remembers. But of course before coming down to earth she is told that she cannot stay a minute longer than she’s supposed to, they all sing and dance where we find out that she’s god’s favourite brat and they’re all one big happy family. By ‘they’ I mean, Rani Mukherjee - the angel, God- Rishi Kapoor and 4 other sidy angels.

So after doing a dance routine in the cloud, our little angel cycles down on a rainbow and changes from being a Pari into dressing the part of a nanny -right outside the Talwar residence. This is two mins after promising she will never divulge her angle powers!

From being the nanny that they want out, she ends up making them believe that she’s on their side. Simultaneously, she’s also trying to get Ranbeer come to terms with his emotional demons of letting himself be emotional about anything in life.

Of course this cant be that easy, so in between all of this there are museum trips where she makes dinosaurs dance, turns beetles into ninja turtles, skates on water , turns a spider into a butterfly. We also have Amisha Patel dancing in a bikini looking really hot, yeah that had nothing to do with angel powers. She has lost sickening amounts of weight thanks to the size zero fad started by a certain Ms. Kapoor.

Anyway what’s alarming is the family’s indifference to question the Pari’s hygiene factor as she wears the same dress throughout days and months. C’mmon you’re a Pari, you have the power to change your clothes, so why not just put on something different every now and then which would trick people into thinking you shower!

What’s also alarming is that in today’s day and age when cinema is moving forward Kunal Kohli feels the need to force fit a baby Sardar into the script just so that there can be a scene where someone gets to sing ‘mein nikla gadi leke…’ I thought we were over the whole cute sardar kid after Kuch Kuch Hota hai, but I guess not.

To add to all this madness there is fortness - Forceful cuteness (I made that up). A golden retriever who cries when all the other kids cry, a hamster who disappears toward the end of the movie, might have eaten something and died. Well, it’s good he died earlier cause then he didn’t have to hear Saif explain to Rani, as to what makes people cry (brace yourself) he says touching her heart ‘jab yahan dard hota hai, tab yahan se aason aate hai (pointing to her eyes) aur tab yahan dard hota hai (this time touching his heart. Seriously can that be classified as a pick up line? He should have just told her watch this movie after it’s made you’ll cry al right!)

Oh wait towards the end after god grants her the wish of giving up superpowers for humandom, she cries and then there’s a dialogue between her and Saif which goes like ‘mein row rahin hoon aur aap humsein flirt kar rahein hai’ with Saif retorting ‘Am I flirting with you?’ this is him being sexy. Seriously Kareena?
Maybe after watching this movie she would have wished she was the hamster.

I know these were complimentary tickets but I still feel like demanding my money back for watching. For all it’s worth they could’ve added Thoda thought, Thoda better dialogues in the making.