Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya (2004) User Reviews

A waste and A shame !!!!!

[hessa345 · 4/10 · 27 October 2004]

We are in 2004 , A year where Indian movies well known due to high production values, talented actors & actresses and to their uniqueness. Now why I am saying this ?? The answer is :

The movie is about a Punjabi family settled in the UK where they forgot all their values and traditions, this family lives under one roof where they act like strangers.One day , the family's friend Dr. Verma (Anupam Kher )asks his friend Mr.Khanna ( Kadar Khan ) to let his niece stay with his family for while no longer than a month because he has to attend a conference in America..

The movie is focusing on the relationship between the beautiful niece Mahek ( Richa Pallod )and her host family, especially with Mr. Khanna younger son Sunny ( Rakesh Bapat ).. Now that's the story which is a typical story in Indian movies .. BUT what makes some movies HITs and other FLODs is the way this typical story is presented ..

This movie lacks the spark , the events accelerate in first half hour in unbelievable way.. What I mean is, In less than a month, our nice beautiful girl who is always right changed the whole family and taught them the true Indian tradition eg. Sweeti, Sunny's niece is so spoiled who changes her boyfriends in less than a week like changing her socks and when Mahek teaches her in 1 event ( Yaeh, Just 1 ) to respect her grandmother and to stop dating ... Come on , the girl lived all her life in England and a stranger in 1 event succeeded to change her values .. Too much

The cast is fine but not great.. Big names like Anupam Kher + Khader Khan but such a waste and a shame in this movie .. Rakesh Bapat ( Sunny ) and Richa Pallod ( Mahek ) aren't new comers but it is their first leading role and as a matter of fact , they need more time and extra acting classes before casting in lead roles ( In some scenes , they overact which are laughable ). The songs are average , only a few catched my ear.The cinematography is really poor where some songs are really bad directed and lack the atmosphere. One IMPORTANT fact, our hero and heroine CAN NOT dance!!!!!.

When I first watched this movie , I thought I went to the wrong one because i thought it was directed in the 1980's .. Still now , I can't believe that the movie was directed this year ..

Finally.. If you have a spare time , where you don't know what to do and after thinking of every possible solution .. Rent this but don't expect much ..

**/*****

Crap

[virindra · 2/10 · 19 July 2006]

Even in the year 2004 people in Bollywood succeed to make a worthless movie with actors and actresses in it who cannot act at all! The script is very boring. It's about an Indian family who moves to England where no one cares about the values of an Indian living. The son Sunny is suffers because of this. No one has time for him or cares about him. You cannot see his suffers in the way he acts, no because of the background music you know he suffers A LOT! -crap-

Then one day a girl called Mahek comes to stay with them for a month. The reason she comes there is because she needs a heart surgery. She teaches the family Indian values of life and she falls in love with Sunny. But her chance of a successful heart operation is 1%. But hey people, this is Bollywood we are talking about! Of course the operation will lead to success. -crap-

This movie is so worthless. Mahek comes in the lifes of so different people and still she succeeds to change them in a second. An uncle who is an alcohol addict stays off the booze, a niece of Sunny has gone loose, but because of a conversation she learns to value elder people. Come on! And if that is not enough crap for just one movie, she learns the women how to honor their men once a year. It looks like Mahek tries to do what Sharukh did in the crap-movie Kal ho na hoo.

Mahek is played by a beautiful actress, but the unshaved actor who playes Sunny is one ugly m*T3®f... It is not that ugly people cannot fall in love, don't get me wrong, but when the story is crap and doesn't make sense, all in the character of Bollywood, why didn't they hire a handsome crap actor like Akshay Kumar? Because I like to see Akshay more than an ugly guy with a beard.

If you struggled to get past the cheesy & super-long opening song...

[Sherazade · 3/10 · 1 October 2006]

then you're a sucker just like me. This film was made in 2004! 2004 people! And yet it employed the most severely clichéd stereotypes, prototypes and tired old tricks in the history of Bollywood. You know what? I want to know how films like this get made because obviously, some people are still trapped in bygone eras most other people would rather forget about.

Anywho, the storyline in the movie deals with two people (whom we are introduced to in the beginning of the film) who appear to each other in their dreams (Hence the title: Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya? Who is this who comes to me in my dreams) as lovers but do not exist in reality---yet. And in case you haven't already guessed that this is gonna to be a sappy melodramatic Bollywood fluffy episode, then they have 10 songs (Yes 10 song & dance numbers) to prove it to you. Moving right along, our heroine Mahek (Richa Pallod) arrives in London (even though the film was shot on location in Wales) via her uncle Dr. Verma (played by Anupam Kher in a very wisely chosen special appearance role). But upon arrival, her uncle has to leave for an urgent engagement overseas and leaves her in the care of his close friends. Mahek's arrival in this household is a blessing because her very traditional Indian presence makes a deep impact on all the members of the family who have taken the term 'NRI' to the extreme and forgotten about their roots (all of them except for the grandmother of course). It is also in this household that Mahek finds out Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya? by way of Sunny (Rakesh Bapat) one of the sons in the family with whom she falls in love. But of course there has to be a damper on their relationship and that comes to them by way of Mahek's secret identity as well as the nature of her visit to the UK.

Okay, now on to some of my pet peeves, as seen in the film:

1. Mahek, the angel in Pink. Yes, she wears pink as if that was the only colour available to her from the wardrobe department.

2. Mahek arrives in London (which is actually somewhere in Wales and not the actual London) from India and goes sight-seeing on the very same day. Not only that, she also has the time to go dancing after that and is not the least bit jet-lagged.

3. The spoof of Shah Rukh Khan during the fake radio interview was right on! But clearly uncalled for. I'm sure the actor did not find that funny. But chances are he like most wise people did not see the film.

4. Of all the 10 songs, only one was truly memorable and that's 'Mera Sona Saajan' one of the reasons the film earned at least one star and not zero from me.

5. The conflicting cultures scenes were a bit overblown.

6. There was a nice scene in which the actors and actresses sing in their own voices (another reason why the movie earned one more star from me) but what was the point of this then? If they can sing, then why didn't they just sing all the songs.

7. Okay, while I know that most Hindus do not make use of graveyards for dead loved ones, what was the purpose of Mahek & Sunny disrespecting the graves of other people by going for a walk and doing what not atop of them? The director should have cut this scene out but I'm sure he did not give a damn.

The third reason and last reason why the movie earned one more star from me is the fact that the final scenes were shot in the hospital where I was born. :-) But that's no excuse to sit through 3 hours of hopeless and overdone fluff!