Bipasha-Dino back at it again

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"></div> <div class="Normal" style="" text-align:="" center=""><img src="/photo/1025271.cms" alt="/photo/1025271.cms" border="0" /></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Chehraa</span><br /><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Director</span>: Saurabh Shukla<br /><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Cast</span>: Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Irrfan Khan, Preeti Jhangiani, <br /><br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Plot</span>: Neurotic girl meets boy at medical college, then murders her father, then leaves boy, then marries a drug addict, then believes someone is trying to kill her, then tries to...<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Setting</span>: Mumbai and Dubai. <br /><br />...commit suicide but doesn''t quite succeed (and if she had, the movie would have ended). This is happening five years after the girl (Bipasha) first disappeared. Enter (re-enter) the boy (Dino) and the other girl (Preeti) who has been in love with the boy; both have become psychiatrists - though the second girl can be mistaken for a bar dancer. <br /><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br /></div> <div class="Normal" style="" text-align:="" center=""><img src="/photo/1025273.cms" alt="/photo/1025273.cms" border="0" /></div> <div class="Normal"><br />Meanwhile the hysterical, forever screaming girl (Bipasha) is scared of her husband (Irrfan), who keeps having these small, white pills from a silver box, presumably something narcotic. There''s also a guy in a red-black leather jacket who keeps following the girl, a lawyer who keeps trying to avoid a media scandal, the girl''s mother (Navni Parihar) who keeps getting scared of her husband (not to be confused with the girl''s husband) and the girl''s father (Govind Namdeo) who keeps beating his wife. <br /><br />By the time all the characters were introduced, we were still trying to figure out who does what and why. <br /><br />What can you say about a movie that tries to pass off a what-happened-to-the-weight-loss Bipasha as a college student and even starts with a song that goes "Let me be" in the eighth minute of the film? How are such films made today when even the front bench audience has become more discerning? <br /><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><br /></div> <div class="Normal" style="" text-align:="" center=""><img src="/photo/1025278.cms" alt="/photo/1025278.cms" border="0" /><br /></div> <div class="Normal">If Bipasha tries too hard to act and fails perhaps because her hard attempts were very obvious, there''s Preeti who shocks with her appearance (the lack of acting skills not mentioned as it''s endemic to starlets). Is this the same girl who seemed dew-fresh in the <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Chui mui si tum</span> video? Even Irrfan, an actor usually associated with believable performances is wasted in the film. Is he supposed to be dangerous? Mentally unsound? Criminally inclined? What?<br /><br />The only two things that to some extent condone this excuse of a movie are Dino Morea and the story line. Dino seems to be slowly getting his act together. There are scenes in the movie where he is the only actor doing his job. He does well, conveying the confusion and helplessness of a man who is seeing his college sweetheart go mad. As for the Bips-Dino chemistry, don''t look too hard, there''s none. <br /><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section4"><div class="Normal"><br /></div> <div class="Normal" style="" text-align:="" center=""><img src="/photo/1025284.cms" alt="/photo/1025284.cms" border="0" /></div> <div class="Normal"><br />As for the story line, it stands out because here was a movie that could have been gripping, and here is an example of how even such a story can be made pathetically tedious. The blame lies squarely on the story tellers and not the actors. Just when the excitement builds, there is an insipid song. Just when we start thinking of ''what''s going to happen next?'', something absolutely, incongruously bizarre happens. <br /><br />And as the movie neared its end (which was oh so far away), we wondered, ''so why was it called <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Chehraa''</span>? <br /><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> </div>