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Maine Pyaar Kyon Kiya

David Dhawan is trying very hard and improving a little but still has a long, long way to go before arriving at the vintage oddball humour and spontaneous abandon of the all-time favourites Deewana Mastana and Hero No. 1.

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Maine Pyaar Kyon Kiya
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Be it Chor Machaye Shor, Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi or now Maine Pyaar Kyon Kiya, I have had much the same thing to say about David Dhawan's recent attempts at regaining his lost form. He is trying very hard and improving a little but still has a long, long way to go before arriving at the vintage oddball humour and spontaneous abandon of the all-time favourites Deewana Mastana and Hero No. 1.

As is always the case with Dhawan's films, the big idea lies in another movie, in this case Cactus Flower and Jerry McGuire with a bit of Deewana Mastana also thrown into the masala. The wafer-thin plot is built on deceptions, how one lie leads to another until sheer madness and mayhem rules. So you have a casanova orthopaedician Samir (Salman) who loves the female company but is also commitment-phobic. He keeps his girlfriends at a distance by pretending to be married. Then one fine day, love happens. But Sonia (Katrina) wants to meet his non-existent wife before taking their relationship any further. So in steps his nurse-cum-secretary Naina (Sushmita). Soon fake kids, the wife's lover and a divorce are also conjured up.

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Dhawan's films are all about a lack of logic and intellect. However, the film's silliness is not enough to keep you amused. mpkk has a few corny lines and does raise some genuine laughs, but they are few and far between. The gags and punches are not uniformly spread out, the second half becomes boring, the pace slackens and by the end, the film completely loses steam. Salman can be nothing other than himself. It's damn hard to imagine him as a doctor who prances with pretty women on the beach and then dances to Just Chill at a night club. Sushmita carries on with the trademark chiffon saris and wet dances of Main Hoon Na and looks gorgeous. Sohail as Katrina's in-love neighbour is loud while Katrina is cute. The director also invents a new caricature here, that of the slap-happy mom (Bina Kak). She begins as fun, a genuinely "hatke" filmi mother, but soon gets shrill, grating and irritating, so much so that you feel like giving her a slap instead.

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INDIAN Top 5
1. Maine Pyaar Kyon Kiya
2. Dus
3. Sarkar
4. Parineeta
5. Bunty Aur Babli

US Top 5
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. Wedding Crashers
3. Fantastic Four
4. War of the Worlds
5. Batman Begins

Courtesy: Film Information

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