After a couple of box office dud this year with Tashan and Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic, Yash Raj Films has tried it again with the youthfully crafted BACHNA AE HASEENO. Director Siddharth Raj Anand has done better after learning from past. Headlining the star-cast are Ranbir Kapoor, Minissha Lamba, Bipasha Basu, and Deepika Padukone. Needless to say, expectations are huge.

One more Yashraj’s creation, Bachna Ae Haseeno, is a film, which would be especially liked by the youth. This romantic film deals with a young guy Ranbir, who falls in love with 3 ladies at different time, first, when he is in HSC (1996), second when he starts working with a company in Mumbai (2002) and third when he moves to Australia.

The guy breaks heart of first 2 girls so badly and he never realizes it until his third girlfriend breaks his heart and makes him suffer the pain associated with a spilt up.

The movie starts with a guy going back to his flashback and taking us to Switzerland where he had fallen in love for the first time (with Minnisha Lamba). The director had tried very hard to show us that it was actually 1996 but somehow it feels, the actors looked lot older than those 18 year olds.

2nd story takes place in 2002, with Bipasha Basu. The guy is shown working for Microsoft’s gaming division. Okay, now here the guy looks younger whereas Bipasha looks older. It is a kind of dissimilarity but here, there are few comedy scenes and the performance looks much real. Especially, Bipasha has really done a wonderful job.
Now, year 2007, the guy is in Sydney where he meets Deepika Padukone. There is indeed some kind of spark between Ranbir and Deepika. Maybe being a real life duo has helped them to showcase a beautiful chemistry on the celluloid. Deepika certainly has done justice with her character.

The movie seems quite okay in the first half but as it reaches interval, the entire movie becomes very predictable. The second half is touching and a bit too long. The execution of the script by the director especially in the second half could have been better. The editing too could have been much tight. As expected by the Yashraj productions, the music is superb, especially two songs, the classic Bachna Ae Haseeno and Khuda Jaane, really stand out. The cinematography is extraordinary; the locales of Australia and Italy have been beautifully captured. On the acting front, Ranbir looks appealing though he was kind of over the board in first story but overall he has done a good job. Minnisha again goes overboard like Ranbir in first story but later it is all good. Bipasha despite of looking bit older in front of Ranbir is the best of the lot. Deepika too is good. Actually, she did not have much to do.

The movie could have been made much better, in terms of execution, story and others. The concept of 1 guy falling in love with 3 girls is great but the way it is turned out is awful. They could have made it thorough romantic comedy film rather than adding some drama and all.

So, overall, it seems that the movie would do good business. It may be liked by few while few might not like it. It should get mixed reactions. But overall, it is stepping towards box office blockbuster.