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While the advertisement designs of the movie with a teenage girl shown pregnant suggests it to be a noticeable copy of Oscar winning film Juno, the fact is Teree Sang is not. It is also not really similar to Preity Zinta’s Kya Kehna though it too dealt with a very adolescent unmarried girl getting pregnant. But despite having its heart in the right place, Teree Sang doesn’t really register any impact on the audience.
Maahi (Sheena) is the only child of rich parents (Rajat Kapoor and Neena Gupta). She strikes closeness with Kabir aka Kukko (Ruslaan) whose parents (Kaushik and Sushmita Mukherjee) belong to the lower strata of the society.
Their friendship turns into love and during a camping on the New Year’s Eve, in a drunken state they end up having sex. Maahi gets pregnant and all hell breaks loose While Maahi wants to keep the baby, her father opposes it. She then elopes with Kabir so that she can deliver her child. What further complications it all leads to forms the rest of the movie.
Kaushik’s direction falls in the category of ‘firmly okay’ but as an actor he has his impressive moments playing a rickshaw driver. Screenplay by Jainendra Jain, Sanjay Chauhan and Anuj Kapoor is plain dull at times. One wonders why the girl (Sheena) whom you should feel the maximum sympathy for falling in such a mess has been given an awfully irritating childish tone to speak her lines. It starts grating on your nerves after a point of time. The music too hardly has any bear in mind value.
Ruslaan Mumtaz has marvelous screen presence and given a good script and a good director can work wonders. Sheena makes a convinced debut but her dialogue delivery needs to improve. Rajat Kapoor is good and so is Sushmita Mukherjee. Anupam Kher in a short role is remarkable as usual. Neena Gupta is okay.
Teree Sang is not really a dire film but just that it is worth to see in theatres.
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