Aap ki Khatir (आप की खातिर)(Hindi, 2006)

This review comes at a great personal sacrifice. I mean I sat through (tolerated is a better word) this whole movie just because I thought it will be unfair to write a review for a movie without seeing it completely. I mean, the first ten minutes of the movie were bad enough for me to want to get out, but I braved it. I thought the next ten minutes will be good, then the next ten minutes, but the good ten minutes never came. Thankfully, the movie ended.

The fault is all mine. Why did I ever go to see a movie with cast like Priyanka Chopra, Amisha Patel, Suniel Shetty and Dino Morea, I cannot understand. I expected nothing from them, and got nothing. I can't for the life of me understand how Priyanka has become the hottest property in Bollywood, when she can't act to save her life and the music album girls are way prettier than her, but then that's life. What I can't digest is that the man who gave us Sid of Dil Chahta Hai or the Manav of Taal is looking so uncomfortable on screen. I can't for the life of me understand why Akshay Khanna took this role. Anupam Kher, the actor-par-excellence, must be on some record making spree of doing maximum number of films and hence is accepting any film. That's the only explanation I could think of for his pathetic role in the movie.

For those who still want to know the plot, Anu (Priyanka Chopra) is in love with Danny (Dino Morea) but they have had a break-up. She is going to the wedding of her step-sister, Shirani (Amisha Patel) and Kunal (Suniel Shetty). As she knows Danny will be there, and she desperately wants him back, and she thinks that he will get jealous if he sees her with someone else, and that jealousy will bring him back to her, she hires Aman (Akshay Khanna) to be her escort. As the movie progresses, we get to know that Shirani and Danny have had an affair while Anu was away, that Shirani is now over Danny but he is not, and Aman and Anu fall for each other in their acting. Things reveal themselves one by one, cause a lot of heartaches interspersed with comic scenes. In the climax, all is revealed, Danny is thrown out and the two couples, Anu-Aman and Shirani-Kunal get married. Anupam Kher and Lillette Dubey play Anu and Shirani's parents.

The movie has no saving grace, apart from the songs being hummable and a few comic scenes which you can grasp at like a drowning man grasping at straws.

OK, I have done it. I have written this review. Now I will try to forget about the movie.
Rating - ✘✘✘✘