YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI: A journey not so refreshing! [2/5]

It feels extremely annoying & unacceptable to see what all started with a huge potential & promise to bring freshness and a certain kind of novelty to the content part in Bollywood films [How can you forget the nice, sincere, feel good, simplistic yet multi-layered, emotional to its core impressive ‘WAKE UP SID’?], getting trampled, crushed & shattered from left, right & center with a much clichéd, unoriginal, full of gimmicks, star-driven [Yes, you’ll miss the actors here] preachy & perplexed average romantic comedy ‘YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI’. I didn’t see it coming from you, Mr. Ayan Mukherji…not even in my weirdest dream.

So, haven’t we met before a bunch of buddies who have their own perception and expectations from life, they spend good times together, one girl trapped in her own world falls for the fun-loving carefree guy but the guy has plans for life other than just being in a relationship [Exploring the world around the globe in this case], they get separated by their priorities, time flies & we see them getting reunited this time in a more celebration mode the Indian way…& love strikes again. No prizes for guessing, it’s time to repair & rectify damages done in the past? Nothing could more regular than this.

Now, I do understand one having hell of limitations while making ‘just another’ love-story that doesn't give you much strength with its writing to built something real good, so we have an item number by an yesteryear sensation [The ravishing Madhuri Dixit in her usual best], dreamy jaw-dropping beautiful locations, high-on style sets and costumes, perfectly polished characters, songs & dance numbers on regular intervals, forced kissing scene [between the two ex-flames in real life]…and a few unexciting-poorly executed guest appearances to save the day and flaws in the substance!

Watch it if only the charming looks of Deepika Padukone & the cuteness of Ranbir Kapoor can make you look at the screen for hours with unblinking eyes [in other words if you are a hardcore fan], other wise I would choose Farookh Shaikh’s 2-scene appearance, the ‘Ghaghra via Agra’ song, confidently cool & fresh Kalki & a few ‘buddies at best’ scenes out of this whole 2 hour 41 min of tiresomely predictable movie experience. Don’t dare take this journey! It’s not adventurous, it’s suicidal! **[2/5]