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Movie Review: Pyaar Impossible(2010)

Pyaar Impossible: Is an average watch

Rating: 2.5 out of 5*

Starring: Uday Chopra, Priyanka Chopra, Anupam Kher and Dino Morea

Director: Jugal Hansraj

Superstar, no matter what

Successful actors in tinsel town are referred to as STARS. No matter how bad a hit their films take at box-office, they, like real heroes come out unscathed, winning a million hearts by their sheer Star presence.

So we wonder does the success or failure of the films affect its stars.

The box-office report definitely makes a difference in the Star power. But then, we have a unique league of actors, very few of their kind in Bollywood who held their ground. Come what may, for them success or failure all became a part of the rat race which was long left behind.

Yash Raj Films goes ballistic with ‘New York’

Yash Raj Films has never been known for getting aggressive when it comes to the promotion of their films. However, they changed their strategy in 2008 when they heavily promoted ‘Tashan’, ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’ followed by ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’. While ‘Tashan’ tanked (for all the right reasons), the other two went on to be successful at the box office. In the same year, Yash Raj Films also had ‘Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic’ and ‘Roadside Romeo’. Perhaps the production house was aware about the kind of products they had in their hands and refrained from spending any extra moolah in bringing the films to the audience. Result? Both the flicks were super flops.

Fourth flop in a row for Saif Ali Khan

Believe it or not but in his only release of the year so far, Saif Ali Khan has delivered a box office disaster. Incidentally this is his fourth box office failure in a row over last 12 months, what with ROADSIDE ROMEO (where he did the voiceover), THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC and TASHAN being mighty flops in themselves.

Ok, so let’s reveal the suspense. This film in question is SANAM TERI KASAM, an age old project featuring Saif Ali Khan in lead along with Saif Ali Khan, which was revived a few days back and has expectedly went completely unnoticed. In fact majority of cast and crew members of the film were not even aware that SANAM TERI KASAM, which was earlier known as YEH PYAAR HI TO HAI, had even released on 22nd May 2009 at a mere 15 cinemas.

Collections have been downright pathetic for this stuck-in-the-cans film with a mere 4 lakhs coming from these 15 cinemas. In fact the film’s release was akin to some of the old films like YEH LAMHE JUDAAI KE (starring Shah Rukh Khan), MUJHE MERI BIWI SE BACHAO (Akshay Kumar) and YAAR MERI ZINDAGI (Amitabh Bachchan) amongst many others which released decades after being made, arrived without fanfare and went back into cold storage without even completing a single weekend at the box office.

An ULTRA film directed by Lawerence D’Souza (of SAAJAN fame), SANAM TERI KASAM was ready since the mid-90s. Incidentally, when the promos of the film were first released, two of its tracks had turned out to be big hits too. Tuned by Nadeem Shravan who had returned with Lawerence D’Souza once again after SAAJAN, these songs were ‘Ye Pyaar Hi To Hai’ and ‘Ek Baar Ek Baar Pyaar Se To Bol’.

Finally, after a wait of a decade and a half, SANAM TERI KASAM managed to make it to theaters courtesy the producers’ strike due to which theaters were willing to screen any and every movie that was made available to them. With SANAM TERI KASAM not finding any takers in spite of Saif Ali Khan’s name being associated with the project, it won’t be hard to presume that producers as well as multiplexes would keep themselves miles away from reviving such dated films in future.