{"id":758,"date":"2006-11-04T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2006\/11\/review-bas-ek-pal-2.html"},"modified":"2013-09-10T00:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T04:56:57","slug":"review-bas-ek-pal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2006\/11\/review-bas-ek-pal-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Review : Bas Ek Pal"},"content":{"rendered":"

[amazon_link id=”B004S9KHIY” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]\"Bas[\/amazon_link]Rating : Above average (3.5\/5)
\nGenre : Drama
\nYear : 2006
\nRunning time : 3 hours
\nDirector : Onir
\nCast : Juhi Chawla, Jimmy Shergill, Sanjay Suri, Urmila
\nMatondkar, Rehaan Engineer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bas ek Pal : One convoluted story
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\nThis film is a \u201cCloser\u201d of sorts \u2013 a love story for nincompoops. You know the type – he loves her but she doesn\u2019t love him and she loves him but he is jealous, blah, blah, blah. A splurge of emotions; I am confused as I am sure the characters are too. From the songs which regularly play on MTV Desi I had expected am \u201carty\u201d, thoughtful film, kind of like \u201cMy brother Nikhil\u201d<\/a>. Thoughtful it is; it\u2019s just too much thought. It seems like Onir has tried to mesh many stories into one, and is unable to display completely the angst of any one character.<\/p>\n

OK, so there\u2019s Nikhil (Suri) an NRI, newly returned to India. He meets old friend Rahul (Shergill), and Rahul\u2019s friend Steve (Engineer). Nikhil\u2019s a Casanova of sorts, Rahul\u2019s a nice guy and Steve\u2019s a wife-beater. His wife Ira (Juhi), is an independent woman, who thinks of leaving him but never does. Rahul meets Anamika (Urmila) at a nightclub, and is enamored by her. However in another meeting at the club there is a scuffle over her, and Nikhil accidentally shoots Rahul. So, urban boy Nikhil lands in jail, and serves his time with just Anamika\u2019s memory to console him. When he gets out on bail 3 years later, his one aim is to attain her . . .<\/p>\n

The story tries too hard to be interesting \u2013 a simpler story would have been easier to digest. Some of the scenes are just absurd, like the one at the end where Ira is going around the city in pouring rain at night, telling everyone she\u2019s leaving. One\u2019d think that with Bombay\u2019s history of flooding she\u2019d stay home and use the phone.<\/p>\n

The characters aren\u2019t very well sketched. Nikhil who seems like a reasonable guy, has shades of the psychotic stalker, which don\u2019t fit very well. Ira finally gets the strength to leave Steve, but how she gets here is unclear. She\u2019s the kind of woman who causes harm by just being conscientious and forthright \u2013 such a pity. Anamika\u2019s character is that of a woman who knows not her own mind, torn between love (?) and guilt\/duty. And it\u2019s not very well portrayed; Urmila in this film as in some of the previous ones, can\u2019t project her character, and appears \u201coff\u201d undecided on whether she should be smiling or crying in that scene. The sheen of \u201cPinjar\u201d in which she was superb, is now wearing off.<\/p>\n

Rahul\u2019s character is the true-nice-guy. However later in the film, Rahul has pangs of jealousy and actually tries to cause trouble, kinda unbelievable because we don\u2019t really see the anger which would lead to that desperate step. If he\u2019d have shouted and ranted a bit more, he would have been more believable. I know that Shergill could have done justice to Rahul\u2019s character, so I blame the director and the twisted script for the lapse. Steve\u2019s character seemed the most consistent, and the one I most believed.<\/p>\n

The music of the film is beautiful though, and almost all the tracks are melodious, humm-able or just plain haunting, like the “Tere bin” number. This film is just about OK, notice I’m not whooping in my seat or anything. So, although I can\u2019t really applaud the film for anything except the music, I\u2019ve got to say that despite the convoluted story, inept scripting and blurred characters, this movie is loads better than the crap out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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