Pyare Mohan: Masand's verdict

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Keywords: Friday Flicks, Bollywood

Starring: Fardeen Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Amrita Rao and Esha Deol

Director: Indra Kumar

This week's new release at the cinema halls is Bollywood director Indra Kumar's Pyare Mohan, a film that's centred around the lives and loves of two buddies - blind Fardeen Khan and deaf Vivek Oberoi. Now despite their handicaps, the two young men make the most of life - singing, dancing and making merry.

If there's anything that's missing from their perfect existence it's the absence of a soulmate for each. That's a cue for Amrita Rao and Esha Deol to make their entry as two pop-singing sisters who the boys fall hard for.

Come on, a girl can't marry a guy who doesn't have all his faculties intact, can she? Barely have the boys had enough time to mend their broken hearts, that the girls land into a Bangkok Hilton style situation when they are falsely implicated in a crime they didn't commit, while on a trip to - where else - Bangkok itself. Our handicap heroes brave all storms to rescue the damsels in distress and eventually prove that love conquers all odds.

It becomes evident right away that the director and the writers of Pyare Mohan had no idea what film they really wanted to make. First you're led to believe this is a slapstick comedy, then comes the whole gooey, mushy angle.

And just when you find yourself being seduced by the schmaltzy turn that the story has begun to take, you're thrown into a roller coaster action ride. The film doesn't take itself too seriously and neither should you.

When you're watching a seemingly coherent film, you do expect attention to detail and continuity, you also expect the use of logic and reason. But really, when you're discussing a film like Pyare Mohan, how can you even expect that anyone involved might have actually used their brain?