'A good idea gone awry'. That's what you end up telling yourself as curtains come down for 'Kucch Luv Jaisa'.
As Shefali Shah and her husband Sumeet Raghavan transition from being newly wed to parents of two kids, life takes a different turn. The man of the house isn't really willing to be domesticated while the woman believes that after being well educated, this isn't what she had bargained for. Though the story does remind one of Shilpa Shetty-Kay Kay Menon track from 'Life In A Metro', neither is it well established nor is it as volatile.
This is the reason why even as Shefali steps out of the house and tries to explore a good day for herself, there isn't much sense of euphoria. Yes, there is a scene or two that does get a chuckle. Like the one where Sumeet is being a chauvinist at office even as Shefali goes ahead and buys a car for herself. However even though one expects that the comic element would get well interspersed with drama as Rahul enters Shefali's life, the film surprisingly changes gears to only slow down.
Quite a few unbelievable things start happening from here with some of them being extremely difficult to digest. [Spoilers ahead]
First and foremost the very idea of Shefali tagging along with Rahul to solve a 'detective case' is impossible to follow. The duo continues to stick by each other as Shefali never once doubts that all that's happening around her could well be fake. Worse, Rahul - who is on a run - doesn't try to make an escape either, save for one instance, and instead spends time in public places and then checks into a resort.
Wait, there is more. Sumeet, despite his wife not answering his calls and a stranger voice on the other side of the phone asking him to stay away, continues to stay in office. Hello, shouldn't you be actually hitting the road yourself and hunt for your wife? Or perhaps inform cops?
What follows is further puzzling. Shefali decides to walk out on knowing Rahul's real identity, then changes her mind to drop him back in the city again, returns home for her birthday party, gets dressed in a black saree that makes her teenage daughter exclaim 'You are looking hot mom', have a follow up conversation with her about birds and bees, never quite make it clear whether she is eventually happy or not and then finally smiles for that Kodak family moment.
One factor that turns out to be the best part of the film though is Pritam's music. His songs fill in the background score quite well as 'Naina' and 'Khwab' turn out to be the pick of the lot. Also, the film boasts of a polished look which indicates that there isn't much compromise from the production standpoint even though writer-director Barnali Ray Shukla hasn't done much to help the film's cause. Dialogues are quite average and also very confusing at places. Rahul and Shefali
are fair without really getting an opportunity to go the whole hog. Sumeet is decent while Neetu Chandra (playing Rahul's girlfriend and seen in a special appearance) hardly gets a scene or two for herself.
On paper the very idea behind 'Kucch Luv Jaisa' must have sounded exciting. Unfortunately the film turns out to be hardly exciting courtesy abundance of loopholes.
Rating: **
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