Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani - dont ask what part of it, or how or any other relevant questions!

After being in labour for a year and a half, Ayaan Mukherji together with Dharma productions finally delivered Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.

 A story about Naina (Deepika), a girl who has never taken chances in life. She bumps into an old school friend Aditi (Kalki) and for the first time decides to do something spontaneous by signing up for a trip to Manali.

And thus is set the premise for the story of our film - memories of a forgotten journey.

On the trip Naina forms a special bond with carefree Kabir (Ranbir). Not having left home much, Kabir’s zest for life shows Naina a side she’s never experienced before and needless to say falls madly in love.

But Kabir wants to fly, he wants to run, he wants to fall, but never stop. A ‘no responsibility or commitment’ kind of role model for all our boys out there.

Naina realizes that Kabir’s ambitions for life are only a ticket for one, and does the wise thing by keeping her feelings to herself.

Trip over, every one moves on in life, and Kabir being the hero of the film obviously gets the best part of the pie. He moves over to the US to live the famous and foot fancy life of a photographer, who is either filming drug deals from behind a car, getting shot at, living on the edge -in his spare time making out on streets and hosting travel shows (I can already see men signing off their souls to trade lives)

Cut to 8 yrs later. Aditi is getting married, she sends a message to Kabir wishing he’d attend her wedding, come in mysteriously late, appear from behind the stage and steal the show by performing a Badtameez number that has no relevance to the situation whatsoever.

What’s also bizarre is the human interactions shown between people meeting for the first time or after 8 long years of no contact!

So the second half of the film is about bizarre situations, Kabir rediscovering what is important in life, Nanina launching off into a typical I love my India and its Gajar ka Halwa dialogues, the three friends Kabir, Aditi and Avi rebonding, Kabir and Avi sharing some hard to convince emotional breakdowns, and Aditi happily marring a complete mismatch (that bit was cute actually)

Except for a few helicopter shots the cinematography is not breathtakingly different. Same goes for the music (I don’t think a helicopter could have helped much here!)  Considering  every random situation has a song fit in, it could be a modern day ‘Hum Aapke Hain kaun’ but alas! there’s not too much to write home about. ‘Dilli waali girlfriend’ has some cheezy lyrics but if one is not careful enough, one may end up humming the song in public.

I like Balam Pichkari and Kabira (though it does have traces of Iktara)

Excuse me for bringing up ‘Wake Up Sid’, that too was about a guy running from responsibilities, fighting his own demons with a parallel story about a second protagonist – there was a story.

If we talk about feel good films, Zindagi na Milegi Dobara, Dil Chahta hai etc were all that AND a story.  Please give us a hero who wants to be a CA, a CEO or something boringly successful and chooses a regular life as his path, not a gangster, not a photographer not a cool sadak chaap or a film maker, give us a normal boring guy and make him look desirable, c’mmon!!!!

* I LOVE RANBIR KAPOOR AND DONT THINK THERE HAS BEEN A BETTER ACTOR IN AGES!!!