Rainy Mishap

A review on Tum Mile.

Water-logged roads, rain drops lashing out in all its fury, nose to tail vehicles vying for an entry and exit, and hapless mortals traipsing along inch-deep puddles…No…no…I am not describing a scene from Tum Mile…this is in fact a slice-of-life happenstance we descried today just before we got into the movie hall. This made us ponder if all of this was meant to be a pre-cursor to a film whose motif is rain, or a plain bad omen! Well, much to our chagrin, it turned out to be the latter.

So, since our car stood transfixed on a flooded street unable to move anywhere in a mess of muddled traffic, we were a good 15 minutes late for the movie. And if you are wondering as to why have I not gone full-steam ahead with the reviews, it’s because the movie has got nothing worth offering or talking about with the exception of some soulful music.

Ok..ok....back to review biz....ex-lovers, Akshay (Emraan Hashmi) and Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan) bump into each other on a flight to Mumbai. This chance meeting evokes some memories of a life that they shared some six years back. And we zig-zag and hop-skip-jump to a flashback, where the duo meet, date, smooch, and end up in beddy boo.

The guy is an artist, whose only aim in life is to sell his pieces of "art", so that he can make his live-in girl friend happy. But the bloke often turns broke and ends up buying glasses of beer with the girl’s hard-earned money instead. So, eventually the couple calls it quits…with the guy unable to bear the girl’s farts and the girl starting to hate the guy’s growing beer-belly (well, I am surmising that these could be the actual reasons for the break-up).

Nevertheless, they meet again on a rainy day, where our guy gets a chance to whisk the girl off her feet (stuck in deep water though) a la Titanic. Only that the movie is not a patch on the English block buster when it comes to the story and visuals. The film doles out poor images of a rain-swept city, most of them are the real video clips of the 26/7 Mumbai floods. The sinking-saving-reviving acts shot in the real sets don’t really leave much of impact! And towards the end when the girl and the guy come together again, you do not weep in joy…rather laugh amusedly at the joke played on you by the film’s producers!!

And no brownie points for guessing the message that plays towards the end of the movie…“Stay indoors on a rainy day”. Huh! How I wish I had stayed indoors and eschewed making a trip to the movie hall today!!!

A rejoinder to all readers of my blog…please stay miles away from this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!