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Samir (Salman) and Raina (Kareena) are married and resided in Melbourne , Australia . What started of as a loving relationship which lead to a sudden marriage between the two has now turned into a complex situation what with Samir facing major hurdles in his career to some wrong work decisions that he had taken. Raina is working as a waitress to support their house. Jobless Samir gets an opportunity to work in Singapore and make a new beginning. He takes Raina along with him but only to tell her at the airport that he has booked her ticket for India to go back to his parents and that he will come back to her once things fall in place in his career.
After Samir catches his flight for Singapore , a dejected and sad, Raina keeps waiting at the airport lounge right till the final boarding announcement for her flight to India comes in. A bar tender at the cafeteria in the departure lounge, Akash (Sohail) sees her plight and offers help. He falls for her directly but only to realize she is married. Raina gets confused whether to go to India or stay back in Australia . Just then, help comes in form of her friend Nina (Nauheed) who arranges for a job through a friend (Mahek Chahal) and Raina decides to stay back. Incidentally, Raina gets a job at the jewellery shop situated bang opposite of that of Akash's café. Gradually friendship grows between the two. But what happens after Samir arrives back to take Raina along with him to Singapore forms the rest of the movie.
Debutante writer-director Prem Soni must be called really lucky to get a top line lead pair of Salman – Kareena and a reasonably good budget basing his movie completely in Melbourne . While his film begins well, establishing his main characters and their issues without much deviation to sub plots, he mishandles in the second half. While there are a few tremendously well handled and well penned sequences in the second half, but the points that the film downhill are – feeble situations, lack of depth in emotional issues, too simplistic solutions and most importantly you feel zero sympathy for Mr. Khanna (Salman) or Mrs Khanna (Kareena) or even Akash (Sohail). The drama is just not appealing towards the climax. The actors however have risen above the script and have pitched in superb performances.
Salman looks rocking and shows he can play a serious romantic role really well too. Kareena looks pretty and acts superbly, particularly in the emotional scenes. Sohail in what one may call one of his career best roles does full justice to his character and rises much above his written role. Yash Tonk aids him flawlessly. He is very funny in the second half especially in his scenes with Salman. Nauheed and Mahek Chahal (last seen as the gangster's moll in Wanted) add glam quotient and act capably. Bappi Lahiri is very funny as the jewellery shop owner. Deepika Padukone in a special appearance has nothing much to do.
Sajid Wajid's music is very good and has been well included in the movie. Also, the use of RD Burman's song sung by Amit Kumar – Bade Achche Lagte Hai has been made smartly use of two times in the movie.
As you come out of the movie, you do keep feeling that movie could have been much better had the second half been handled well. But overall it's not a bad movie and you won't regret your time wasted watching it.
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