And DKK remains, a well-crafted but half-baked soap opera. His performers are competent - Chaudhary, big on lipstick and histrionics is as excellant as Kajol - but his writing is flawed. Jha can't match the emotional finesse of Masoom. And a heart-broken Kavita is soon goaded into asking for divorce by her favourite fashion accessory, Chandrachur, a college friend who always hangs around. Nandita, who only stopped on her way to Beneras to have a look at her daughter, seems to have permanently missed the train. But DKK lacks emotional conviction.Īnand, besotted with his wife, suddenly gets all moony-eyed over Nandita just because she's bore him a child. Jha's take on marriage is more natural than Bollywood's standard sanitised version. Ghazal Kya kare koi dawai dard-i-dil Classical Music ashiq al Khayal i khan.
Emotions are well-crafted and despite the potential for hysterics, controlled. 7.30 Light Music Kate Tarsat Hogai nahin Karejwa man birha darshan. Using the sample of the timeless hit Dil.
It's Masoom territory and Jha navigates well part of the way. Music video Dil kya kare (did I love you), featuring actress Mallika Sherawat, was launched on Friday.But sex in Hindi movies means always having to say you're sorry. They didn't even find out each other's name. Because Anand is Neha's real father.Ī long time ago, on a train journey he rescued Nandita from some rapists and then fell into bed with her. However, when Anand and Nandita come face to face, all hell breaks loose. The universe is now off-kilter but peace still prevails. Turns out, Neha is adopted and Nandita is Neha's real mother. Obviously, there's going to be trouble soon.Įnter a mysterious stranger, Nandita (Kajol), who has clandestine meetings with Neha sans permission. Mobile phones, treadmill, blue, frosted glass vases - it is a perfect universe. She wrecks your marriage instead.ĭKK is the yuppie Hum Aapke Hain Kaun except here the wife, Kavita (Mahima Chaudhary), wears Tommy Hilfiger, the architect husband, Anand (Ajay Devgan), drives a swanky car and the daughter, Neha, learns dancing Shiamak Davar style.
Only, your one-night stand doesn't return to boil the family pet. Dil Kya Kare (DKK) is the Bollywood twist on Fatal Attraction. You get on, make love with a handsome stranger without saying a word, he/she gets off at the next station, end of story.īut what if the stranger got off at the next station pregnant. That is, a short, anonymous encounter in, say a train. In her 1973 book, Fear of Flying, Erica Jong extols the virtues of the "zipless" sexual encounter. Paradise lost: Devgan and Kajol in Dil Kya Kare Movie: Dil Kya KareĬast: Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Mahima Chaudhary, Chandrachur Singh