Anjaana Anjaani reviews updated 28 reviews

 
Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama:  4 stars "This film has everything going for it"
Movie Challenge:  4 stars "I really don’t know why but I feel good."

Renuka Rao, DNA:  3.5 stars "romcom with a difference"

Janhvi Patel, StarBoxOffice:  3 stars "sweet romantic comedy"

Pankaj Sabnani, Glamsham: 3 stars "fun"

Subhash Jha, IANS:  3 stars "gets to it's targeted destination"
Spicezee: 3 stars "Three cheers for this one!"

Sonia Chopra, Sify:  3 stars "end is cliched but the ride is a full one"
Sampurn wire: 3 stars "You will surely love the light-hearted fun of Anjana Anjani"
Yashika Kapoor, Total Filmy:  3 stars "must watch for youngsters"
Sarita Tanwar, Mid-day: 3 stars "quite a novel effort"

Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India: 3 stars "Partially engaging"
K.K. Rai, Stardust Mag: 3 stars "first half relatively slow"

Deepa Garimella, Full Hyderabad:  2.75 stars "nicer, saner parts come Ranbir Kapoor is in the frame"
Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express:  2.5 stars "good actors made to boost a limp story"

Sukanya Verma, Rediff:  2 stars "daft film"

Khalid Mohammed, PassionforCinema:  2 stars

Gaurav Malani, Economic Times: 2 stars "in first 10 minutes, you can predict last 10 minutes"

The Indian: 2 stars "Anjaana Anjaani is a perfect example of gloss overshadowing the content"
Komal Nahta, Koimoi: 2 stars "doesn't involve the viewer" "forced drama"
Anupama Chopra, NDTV: 2 stars "emotions and characters are singularly plastic" 

Mayank Shekhar, Hindustan Times:  1.5 stars "story that doesn't exist"

Rajeev Masand, CNN IBN:  1 star "deathly boring"

Vinod Mirani, IndianTelevision:  "uninspiring" "will pass unnoticed"
Prashant Sharad Mane, Deccan Herald:  "leaves the audience yawning"
Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Reuters Blog:  "Avoid this unless you want to die of boredom"
News Locale: "You cannot afford to miss this one. Go, grab a ticket"
Ganpati News: "great movie experience"

Avg. rating: 2.66 stars (61.25/23)

Emotional Atyachar review *ing Ranbir Kapoor

Frequently Asked Questions:

First up, what is Emotional Atyachar?  It's not just a song from an Anurag Kashyap film anymore.  It is one of the staples of trashy guilty pleasure television made famous by channels like Bindass and MTV.  For similarly satisfying American trash, refer to The Jersey Shore, one notch above the now defunct Jerry Springer Show.  Think about it this way: if Mad Men is gourmet, Emotional Atyachar is buying a 25 cent bag of Cheetos from a gas station while wearing flip flops.

The premise of the show? A person comes on the show to do a "loyalty test" on their partner.  The show sends their own crew members to flirt with the suspected person and then record it all on hidden cameras. The footage is then shown to the world and a showdown usually occurs at the end. This could be comprised of sobbing, fighting, hitting, spitting, and traditional beat-downs.  This is what we call the "pay-off"- the reason that the audience watches the show. Who doesn't want to see people getting their asses kicked.  I'm in.

Why Ranbir Kapoor you ask? Emotional Atyachar is so popular and famous now that all celebrities make their rounds of it, watch the cheating action, dole out some advice (and secretly enjoy the beat-downs like the rest of India) and promote their films.

Deepika tested Ranbir's loyalty?!  All of us wish this to be true but alas that was not to be. A truly golden opportunity missed. Please send all future suggestions to Deepika Padukone's PR agents. They are slacking.  I don't think the daily interviews dumping on Ranbir are quite doing the trick. They need to try for something more effective and entertaining.  Deepika owes us big time after Housefull as it is. We might begin to forgive her if she pulls off this coup.

Now on to the show.

After the requisite song snippets from Anjaana Anjaani (really? A cheating show to promote a love story? Marketing FAIL), Ranbir appears looking to be a wearing a thick toupee with long sideburns.  He immediately suggests making a film based on this tv show (Picture Amitabh Bachchan doing his trademark "Hain"?) because people need to be made aware these things happen in real life.  Who would know better than Ranbir.  Smirk.

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