A smile, when we need it most...

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></span></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="0" width="70.3%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/977333.cms" alt="/photo/977333.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Film:</span> Dil Maange More <br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Director:</span> Ananth Narayan Mahadevan <br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Cast:</span> Shahid Kapur, Tulip Joshi, Ayesha Takia, introducing Soha Ali Khan<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Rating:</span> ***<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Plot:</span> Nikhil Mehra (Shahid) moves to Mumbai trying to persuade his sweetheart-of-four-years to return to their small hometown.She refuses and Nikhil ends up falling in love with... two other girls. It''s all about loving without conditions and who finally gets hitched to whom... <br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Setting:</span> A fictional town 5000 feet above the sea level, Samarpur (where you can see seven rainbows on a clear day) and in Mumbai. <br /><br />Soha Khan''s first release, Ayesha Takia''s second and Shahid Kapur''s third release. Will <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">DMM</span> work for them? <br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></span></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="0" width="70.3%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/977336.cms" alt="/photo/977336.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><br />To start with, the movie is light and funny — not the kind that has you laughing even when the movie''s over, but funny in parts. The story is not one that takes too much mind space; a regular boy-girl love story where the girl is ambitious. <br /><br />The twist is that the boy — being alarmingly unlucky in love it seems — falls for not one, but two women. When the original recipient of his affections (Soha) chooses flying over marrying, our hapless, heartbroken hero who breaks into song and dance at every conceivable request, promptly falls for his colleague (after some prodding by mommy Smitha Jayakar). <br /><br />So far so good, until Girl No. 2 has some skeletons in her cupboard and again our hero is left loveless when... he realises that his fire-spewing neigbour harbours a secret crush on him. Following the maxim, when love comes knocking you don''t refuse, our hero falls for her as well.<br /><br />Finally, feels the audience when... original love returns with her wings clipped and wants him back. So what will the hero do now? Before the poor fellow can adjust to two women in his life (1 & 3), Lady No. 2 buries the dead and comes back claiming her place in the hero''s heart as well... <br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></span></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="0" width="70.3%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/977338.cms" alt="/photo/977338.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><br />With so many women around, we felt that the movie could easily have been called, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Teen Deviyan</span> or Fall-in, Fall-out or True Love Always Knocks Thrice...<br /><br />But as they say, too much of anything is bad and so is the case with movie. The comedy sequences were fun, especially bad man Gulshan Grover as good man AR Rahman (that''s his name in the flick). <br /><br />Shahid too shines in the comedy sequences but... only when he is not killing the laughs by hamming. He does tend to go overboard. <br /><br />The other actor who despite having no funny lines per se carried off the laughs well was Ayesha Takia. That girl has potential and stole every scene she was in. <br /><br />As for Tulip Joshi, ''vacuous'' is what comes to mind. Other than looking pretty, she does not do much. And even in the pretty part, she wears the most hideous outfits of the three women. <br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section4"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></span></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="0" width="70.3%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/977339.cms" alt="/photo/977339.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><br />Now for the debutante Soha... she was visibly not in her element in the song and dance bits, and it was almost cruel to pair her with Shahid — dances even better in the flick — for two of the most danceable songs in the movie.<br /><br />But other than the dancing, Soha is convincing as the girl who knows her mind and does not think twice before saying "I am leaving on a jet plane". <br /><br />It''s when Soha has to return to the I-love-you routine that you feel her faltering... a bit. It would be interesting to watch her in more serious roles, she shows potential there.<br /><br />Before we wrap, the make-up artist should be fired. The foundation on the girls'' faces jumps out of the screen to hit you in the face. Ditto for whoever did Tulip''s clothes.<br /><br />Overall, the movie is definitely worth a watch. At a time when tragedy has struck home, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">DMM</span> doesn''t tax your brain much and leaves you with a smile — something which we all need. Happy watching and a happy new year.</div> </div>