Sadly Over-hyped

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Excellent adaptation.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Two of the hottest actors in cast, excellent cinematography, Vishal- Shekhar's career best tunes and superb acting by the leads, all fall flat and reduce to dust in this nightmare called Anjaana Anjaani.Starting with what is good. Standing ovation and hands down, Ravi K Chandran! He is the master. Filming three beautiful cities of the States – Las Vegas, New York and San Francisco and depicting their cultural hues is a difficult task that the ace cinematographer achieves with distinction. The cinematography of the film is of postcard quality. Everything from the lighting, to movement and focus is perfect. Chandran's efforts should have paid him the Filmfare Award. The film has an international feel to it all thanks to Chandran.Vishal-Shekhar give their career best score. If I Hate Luv Storys was good, Musafir was very good, Zinda was excellent, then Anjaana Anjaani is phenomenal. Known for their creativity and homages to yester year composers (remember Jhankaar Beats and Taxi No. 9211), Vishal-Shekhar compose songs that are addictive and of superior quality. They must have, for sure, put a lot of efforts in Anjaana Anjaani. It is one of those rare albums where each song carries a different feel even if they are all related by the same signature style.Salim-Sulaiman also compose a winning, heat-warming and electrifying background score. The opening scene itself proves that. The film is technically slick and editing is also good. Priyanka Chopra makes her sketchy Kiara believable. Look at her breakdown in the car, or blabber continuously after drinking or tickle your funny bone, you come to know she is a performer of substance. Ranbir Kapoor matched Chopra at every step. He too emotes well, can make you laugh and silently suffer. Though these are not exceptional performances, they help a lot in keeping the film intact.For these four good things, the film gets four stars. Everything else is bad! The screenplay is outright illogical. I fail to see any point the film tried to convey. Their suicidal attempts, their last wishes and the situations they fall into were atrocious and inane rather than humorous as the writer must have meant it to be. The end was firm and certain since the start. Director Siddharth Anand (Salaam Namaste, Bachna Ae Haseeno) has given half-baked films in the past and same repeats. What could have been a fresh take on romance seemed to be a nightmare. Who cares if the songs are marvelous if they pop up without any situations favoring them? The second half has more runtime for songs than for the story. Priyanka recovers during a song; they travel to Vegas in a song, have fun there in another song and return from Vegas in yet another song. Soon after they get back to their regular lives, there is one more song. Song after song, the film was irritating. If the songs are removed, the film would have culminated minutes after the interval itself. The first hour is no better. With some mundane dialogues and uncanny situations, Chopra and Kapoor suffer from the burden to make the film better. And they succeed.What actually prompted me to write this review was to praise the really good things in the film. Otherwise I suggest this film called "Stranger, Stranger" rightly remain a stranger.

I never write reviews... in fact this is my first review. Hell! I signed up to write a review specially for this movie after reading all the other reviews.. Because this is a wonderful wonderful movie... I was too much bored and needed something to take me away from whatever's consuming my mind and I was totally absolutely blown away by this movie. It was a very unique story and I enjoyed my time thoroughly..Now I have read other reviews here about the story being similar to jab we met and etc. I think you don't need to re-invent the wheel to make a machine..!. I have seen jab we met and not for a sec i had the dejavu... It has its own story and its brilliantly presented. A perfect movie!

Watch or Not? Please don't waste your time in watching this movie.The only reason I decided to watch this movie is because of Ranbir Kapoor. I enjoy his acting genes (read dad Rishi Kapoor).Storyline: 2 people meet in a bridge on a night attempting suicide. Then Priyanka keeps talking, preventing Ranbir from jumping thus getting caught by sea guards. The rest of the movie, Priyanka keeps talking n giggling n giggling n giggling. I just wish these 2 would have committed suicide in the first scene itself. saving 1000 souls who died after watching the movie.But yet another take on yet another romantic couple Meet-Coincidences-Fall in Love-Fight-Kiss n make up-blah blah blah blah. Its a mix of copied ideas of several Hollywood flicks(e.g. Bucket List). But even though having such great movies to inspire from, the movie has been presented in completely disarray and to-an-extent of being illogical.I slept midway knowing what the ending would be. When I woke up, the ending was exactly that.

First 10 to 20 Minutes will make you to expect a different movie, then comes the most boring scenes in recent times. It will check your temper till interval. Post Interval have few good scenes which you might enjoy with your lover and then comes the OLD Hindi Melodrama with lot of tears and then a Happy ending with a Hug. The Narration is too slow for viewers to adjust in the first half, while second have good scope for a good love story like that of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge or Jab We Met. Whatever happening in the name of Comedy will make you feel to walk away from theater, are just torturing. Most of the scene all around are predictable and sometimes is too boring and lengthy.The Story is as old as Color movies in Hindi. But the movie can watched for the chemistry and the beauty of the top two actors Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. Priyanka Chopra is the heart of the movie. Apart from good looking Ranbir Kapoor is not good enough for melodrama scenes. Two of the songs are also catchy and for a Musical film like this it should have given more importance to Songs. The Directed had tried to give a Hollywood touch in desi Love Fantasy story.