Sanam Teri Kasam

Sanam Teri Kasam has two newcomers who deserved a better launch. Hopefully their choices after this will make us forget this dull affair.

This cliched love story doesn't do justice to Mawra Hocane, Harshvardhan Rane's potential as actors...

The film is satisfactorily bearable in the first half but is an absolute torment in the second half. Harshvardhan Rane and Mawra Hocane look good together and it seems like they do have a bright future in Bollywood. Apart from that, the plot of the film is utterly disastrous.

By the time you reach the climax, you just want to get done with this soppy romance and get on with your own life. Also, the editor seems to have gone off to sleep somewhere in between.

...the story is decently fleshed out and all smoking guns covered. The trailer with the songs is very misleading and makes it look like one of those 'also ran' movies. But it isn't like that. It is a decent story that only fails because at 154 minutes, the end is so long drawn.

Sanam Teri Kasam had potential in the form of two promising debutantes Mawra Hocane and Harshavardhan Rane, but a regressive script and over the top direction killed it from becoming more than just another tragic love story.

All the time weeping — everybody weeps one by one and then they weep in unison and then again they weep some more, solo, till we come to the point where some intense, quivering sort of love happens that makes us want to slip into the final death throes while screaming, "Abe yaar Inder, shaadi kar le na, please. Otherwise we'll marry her and put her out of her misery."

In a nutshell it's a same old ugly duckling story which goes on for 2 hours 35 minutes...

Apart from the music, Mawra and Harshvardhan's chemistry is the only saving grace...

This one is sheer torture for its regressive take on everything, save for a few bright moments when Hocane is onscreen.

A Long Road to Nowhere...

A romantic, cloying story to avoid at all costs...

...senseless merry-go-round! Right towards the end the director duo throw in a sickness element in the hope of salvaging the drowning ship. But no, nothing can be done because by then the ship has hit rock bottom.

With a run time of 155 minutes, a substantial measure of the first half is spent on the lives of these two individuals before they meet and what comes about when their paths eventually converge. Not only is the narrative a typical love story, it also reinforces discarded gender stereotypes. Though it has nothing new to offer, the film offers respite at an interesting point- an unanswered question.