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Sensitive and mature

Tum Mile (Hindi)

Cast:Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan

Director: Kunal Deshmukh

Turning a natural calamity into a character is a Hollywood staple, and tweaking it to suit the Indian palette is a forte of the Bhatt brothers. This time it is the Mumbai floods of July 2005.

Director Kunal Deshmukh has once again showed that with a smart narrative technique and deft camerawork, humungous budgets are not a must to create the impact of tragedy. Add to it competent performances by Emraan Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan and you get a film that touches you. Emraan plays Akshay, a struggling art student who works part-time as a delivery boy. He falls in love with writer Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan). All is well till Sanjana moves in with him. As usual after the initial syrup, their economic divide starts to make its presence felt. Despite ample scope, neither character resorts to histrionics. It is all sensitive and mature. It is another matter that Kunal takes the liberty to set the subject in South Africa without any valid reason. After the sparring in South Africa, the two meet again in Mumbai on the eve of the disaster and the rest is predictable. The flood scenes are carried out in a realistic manner but they never evoke the question what’s next?

A.K.

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