Posted on April 18, 2008 - by Reema - 1 Comment

Movie Review: U Me Aur Hum

*contains spoilers*

First off, that title. Come on now, is it that hard to spell out ‘you’? It’s a sign of laziness when you can’t type two extra letters. U know?

Ajay Devgan’s the director for this one. A little note to him. Ajay, the first half of the movie is really the most important. If by intermission, people are bored out of their minds, there’s little hope for you. Many may just walk out at intermission. You need to start off great, or there will be nobody left to watch the second half, no matter how good it is.

That said, the first half was horrible. It starts out with an older Ajay/Kajol, but when it goes back in time, Ajay looks just as old. He introduces us to his friends, who I couldn’t care less about. Then comes the love story. Just your basic love story, nothing special about it. It’s the few moments before intermission where the movie actually starts going somewhere.

So, boy gets girl.

Then, something happens to girl. She is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It’s an issue that really hasn’t been dealt with. I guess this is where the comparisons to Taare Zameen Par lie. Though I’m sure TZP was handled much better. Not to say UMAH handled it bad. Some scenes are very sad, but very real. Especially the scene with the baby. I couldn’t even watch that, I closed my eyes.

Kajol is just brilliant. She brings alive her character, and you really see what can really happen when having Alzheimer’s. Ajay is basically just there. It’s Kajol’s movie all the way, at least the second half is.

The songs come out of nowhere, it would be better if they were chopped out. And the camera guy had an obsession with his zoom lens. I do not want to see every little detail of Kajol’s face. And when Ajay first meets Kajol, the camera keeps going back and forth between them. How bout zooming out a bit so we can see both of them at one time? What a concept.

Though I did like the ending. I thought it worked, and it’s the kind of ending I wanted, because while watching, you don’t see how it could possibly turn out well.

If there’s one good thing about UMAH, it’s how gorgeous Kajol looked. Wow. Even better than in Fanaa. Kajol, please keep making movies. Bollywood needs you.

The first half of UMAH really brings down the movie. The movie could have been so much better had the first down been cut down considerably, or maybe just something different done with it. I can’t give the movie a high rating because I don’t know how many people would keep watching past the intermission. It’s that bad. The second half kind of makes up for it, especially because of Kajol. So, keep watching.

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