REVIEW: Pyaar Impossible
Yash Raj Films’ Pyaar Impossible adopts the beauty and the geek formula, but its director Jugal Hansraj does an average job of handling the subject.
It’s no college love story, as has been projected in the promos. But the film does begin at university, with ample campus shots to make you feel sorry you went to one with less imposing buildings.
Uday Chopra is Abhay Sharma, a bespectacled geek, clad in boring trousers and shirts with a half-sleeves sweater and braces most of the time. Abhay is head over heels in love with the hottest babe on campus, Alisha (Priyanka Chopra).
Alisha is a spoilt brat of a girl, and after a particularly tipsy night in which she almost drowns (no prizes for guessing who saves her), the girl is out of college. Abhay’s fantasy and he part ways.
Seven years later, Abhay is still single and still geeky – a replica of his dad (Anupam Kher). He is trying to sell new software he’s built, which eventually gets stolen by a shrewd businessman Siddhu (Dino Morea). Siddhu is about to sell the software to a firm in Singapore, and our man Abhay lands up there to exercise his intellectual property rights.
No surprise that Abhay bumps into Alisha there who happens to be the company’s PR official. But rather than taking her help to win his case, Abhay ends up being her nanny after finding out she’s a divorced mom with a six-year-old kid, Tanya.
Sounds familiar? You bet. All the nanny and babysitter drama is straight out of so many English films, and you kinda don’t know where the film is headed. At the same time, it’s predictable.
