Ash-Vivek don't hit it off

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></span><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Film</span>: <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Kyun! Ho Gaya Na</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Director:</span> Samir Karnik<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Cast</span>: Aishwarya Rai, Vivek Oberoi<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Rating</span>: *1/2 <br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Warning</span>: Spoilers Ahead<br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -3"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="71.7%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" e6e6e6=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/814070.cms" alt="/photo/814070.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br />From the promos and the film''s title, you know half the story.Girl believes in love, boy doesn''t. Now, for the second half, apply conventional Bollywood logic. <br /><br />Girl loves boy; boy doesn''t. They spar; she cries. There''s heart break. Boy also falls in love, but doesn''t realise - not at least till the end, when the scene is either at the airport or a marriage <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">mandap</span>. <br /><br />There''s no need to pat yourself on the back for figuring out the story, for you will discover after a thousand yawns that the plot is far more predictable than you had imagined. <br /><br />Oberoi plays a rich brat who goes bowling, racing, para-jumping, partying, footballing and bantering. Every ten minutes he also spouts his dictionary doesn''t contain two words -- <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">pyaar </span>(love) and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">haar </span>(failure). <br /><br /><a href="http://172.16.2.109/articleshow/msid-814030,curpg-2.cms">Main pyaar mein haar gaya</a><span style="" font-style:="" italic=""> </span><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: -3"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="71.7%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" e6e6e6=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/814072.cms" alt="/photo/814072.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br />Rai''s character is a doe-eyed beauty who has stars in her eyes at the prospect of falling in love. When she does, every ten minutes she chides Oberoi''s character for not having <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">pyaar </span>and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">haar </span>in his dictionary.<br /><br />No prizes for guessing what one of the last dialogues would be: "<span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Main pyaar mein haar gaya </span>(I have failed in love).<br /><br />In the first hour, you meet the characters who discuss their take on love. In the second hour, she falls in love with him. In the third hour, he also falls in love with her but doesn''t know this. In the fourth hour, he discovers he''s in love. In the fifth hour, he decides to proclaim his love even as she readies for a life without him. It takes another hour for our hero to finally say the magic words. <br /><br />In between, Karnik’s excruciatingly painful plot meanders to an orphanage run by Amitabh Bachchan''s character, which has nothing to do with the plot, so that the film and your misery are stretched to three hours which seem like six. <br /><br />The music by Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy - who have done much better before - fill up another hour or so. <br /><br /><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Kyun, </span>Mr Karnik<span style="" font-style:="" italic="">, kyun? </span><br /></div> </div>