Aashiq (2001)
1/10
Stupidity at it's height
10 September 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Indra Kumar who made some decent films like DIL, BETA sadly has the worst sense of humour. In his films craziness goes beyond limit, his comedies are mostly so stupid that they make you feel like a kid. Not that other filmmakers don't boast of such quality but Indra Kumar's 90s films had some of the cheesiest scenes, remember the shock scene of BETA, Raja had several such gem of scenes and also ISHQ, MANN.etc In 90s his films were divided in 2 parts, first half would be nonsensical comedy while second half would be full on melodrama this formula worked many times but failed by the end of 90s and pre 2000 and then he shifted to full time comedies. AASHIQ is a film that reminds us of crap cinema that was made in 1990s. The first half is replete of some cheesy comedy scenes like Bobby Deol making an omlete of his watch and Anupam Kher hearing alarm rings in his body, Johny Lever's wife becoming a dwarf after Mukesh Rishi lands on her and later Mukesh Rishi lands on Johny Lever and makes him a dwarf. The film is replete of such scenes that make you cringe The first half has some few scenes well handled like Johny Lever marriage scene though nonsensical works, even some Bobby-Karisma scenes and the twist too is well handled but second half becomes predictable and Indra Kumar takes several cinematic liberties in the film like some mentioned above and the climax too is so far fetched that it looks fake

Direction by Indra Kumar is below average Music by Sanjeev Darshan was good, but too many songs in the film The title song and many songs are tuneful

Bobby Deol wears the same lost comical look throughout, it works at some places jars at many especially towards the end Karisma gets into her cry act mode and is irritating Rahul Dev has a small role and he does look scary Naseer is decent in his role Mukesh Rishi and Ashok Saraf are good, Johny Lever has some funny moments Vrajesh Hirjee is loud Anupam Kher is typecast
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