Pyaar Ke Side Effects
Apr 4th, 2007 by admin
Once in a while, a movie makes you smile. Not because of what it strives to be. But for its sheer liveliness and boldness.
Going into the new-age movie mantra of urban relationships, “Pyaar Ke Side Effects” (PKSE) comes up with a winsome twosome who love some, lose some…and emerge from the battle of the sexes healed and….quite wholesome!
Sid (Rahul Bose) meets Trisha (Mallika Sherawat), in extremely trying circumstances. She’s trying to escape an undesirable marriage (to a stuffed shirt played by Jas Arora). Sid is trying…just trying. Being a DJ at 30 is like being a teenager at 40.
A bit bewildering yet constantly engaging in its blizzard of bacchanalia thanks to dialogue writer Victor Acharya for words that ring true and still sound like catch lines on the bumper sticker of sports car. “PKSE” is possibly that one Hindi romantic comedy, which could equal Hollywood’s ‘Harry-meets-Sally’ formula portraying the man-sharp-woman-sharper gender skirmish.
Debutant director Saket Chaudhary sees the battle of the sexes entirely from the male viewpoint. Whether it’s Sid with Trisha, or Sid’s brother-in-law (Aamir Bashir) struggling to keep his moody wife from swooping down on him at the smallest pretext, this slick flick knows the rope-trick of keeping relationships afloat in today’s times of stress and competitiveness.
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