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Tum Mile

A lacklustre film in which the many lulls help overshadow the few storms

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Tum Mile
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Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan
Directed by Kunal Deshmukh
Rating: *

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The posters and trailers have helped construct a careful lie. Tum Mile is not a disaster movie. The floods that paralysed Mumbai in 2005 are nothing more than forgettable wallpaper that provides neither background nor backdrop. Rather than rainy Mumbai, almost two-thirds of the film is shot in sunny Cape Town, where Akshay (Emraan Hashmi) is tangled in a live-in relationship with Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan). He’s a struggling artist who predictably lacks all commercial acumen and spends much of his time sulking on the edge of unfinished highways. She’s a green hack who campaigns for offices to turn off their lights at night but drives a slick Audi convertible.

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In his last venture Jannat, director Kunal Deshmukh tried hard to portray the love of a mall-hopping couple and here too, he continues to exploit that realistic, albeit elusive vein. Like any courting twosome, Akshay asks Sanjana about her favourite food, and she wants to know about his favourite film. But none of this—not even an awkward kiss—throws light on these characters.

As their relationship breaks down at one point, Soha is given ample opportunity to recreate that melancholic on-the-edge protagonist she had so effectively conjured up in films like Khoya Khoya Chand and Mumbai Meri Jaan, but her unconvincing performance makes you wonder if that early promise was all empty. Emraan, for his part makes an earnest attempt to carry the burden of a lacklustre film on his intense shoulders, but he takes the brooding a bit too far sometimes.

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When the couple finally meet on that ill-fated day in Mumbai six years later, Akshay gets to live the coveted superhero life as he saves a child from the clutches of a sinking bus. He helps comfort Sanjana, who repeats the words ‘I’m scared’ more often than a mortally terrified six-year-old. At the end of this ordeal, the many lulls help overshadow the few storms. At one point, Sanjana is seen reading P. D. James’ The Private Patient; she and Akshay also play monopoly in their large-windowed room. These are just subtle reminders of better entertainment available outside that suddenly trying multiplex auditorium.

High Fives

Bollywoo

1. 2012 (dubbed)
2. Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani
3. Tum Mile
4. Wake up Sid
5. Jail

Hollywood

1. 2012
2. A Christmas Carol
3. Precious
4. The Men Who Stare at Goats
5. This is it

Rock

1. Wheels (Foo Fighters)
2. I Will Not Bow (Breaking Benjamin)
3. Check My Brain (Alice in Chains)
4. Break (Three Days Grace)
5. If You’re Wondering if I was... (Weezer)

Courtesy: Film Information

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