Bobby+sex+baby=Teree Sang

Thisis Raj Kapoor���s Bobby with furtive sex and a baby thrown in for goodmeasure.
Otherwise the boy-meets-girl formula never seemedmore homage-bound.Soft to the touch, but underpinned by a strong message on sex and the single parent, Teree Sang is a sweet and likable spin on premature parenthood.
The prim and propah Rajat Kapoor and NeenaGupta playing the debutante Sheena Shahabadi���s stiff-upper-lipped parents could well be the painfully-young Rishi Kapoor���s parents Pranand Sonia Sahni in Bobby with their socials airs and graces borrowed from atacky soap on Page 3 mores.
Sahni had dropped her pallu to show her disdain for motherhood. Neena Gupta doesn���t seem sure of what to drop.
Gupta���s daughter Mahi���s upper-class upbringingdoesn���t stop her from befriending the simple boy from Old Delhi. They meet, chat, flirt and... well, go all the way. And we don���t mean that inany geopolitical sense, though Kaushik���s film does travel that extradistance both emotionally and geographically.
Ruslaan Mumtaz last(and first) seen in Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar is endearing and sincere as the boy next-door who kind of forgets that making love quite frequently means making a baby.
The whole episode where the callowdon���t-know-any-better couple discover that they are thrust with unwantedparenthood is awkward and selfconscious, kind of in-sync with the youngprotagonist���s personalities.They don���t know any better.Providentially, the film does.
Once they take off into thescenic hills to play Mummy-Dadddy far away from prying eyes, the filmassumes the quaint colours of a Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak with the couple���s disarming innocence adding a lemony luster of harmony to theotherwise-predictable Romeo-meets-Juliet-in-the-maternity-ward tale of juvenileslipups and slip-ins.
Satish Kaushik���s direction is straight-and-sincere most of the way. The couple is given a non-judgemental treatment till the end when ���judge��� Anupam Khershows up with his verdict on teen pregnancy. Though the narration makes abold statement on premature hormonal exuberance it doesn���t quite acquire the poignant heartwarming intimacy and humour of JasonReitman���s Juno. Nor does young Sheena Sahabadi have Juno���scontagious premature wisdom. The girl looks clueless about the birds and thebees and the wanna-bes.
The best interludes in the film feature Ruslaan���s plebian parents played with spirited earthiness by SatishKaushik and Sushmita Mukherjee . Their life in the crusty dusty Old Delhilanes are authentically recreated. In contrast the female protagonist���s world is awkward and cheaply stylized.
Juliet never had is so crude. What ironically saves the day is the lack of chemistry between the leadpair. Painfully young and awkward Ruslaan Mumtaz and Sheena epitomise the premature householders grappling with house bills and pregnancy tests at a time when they should be at best worried about which party to attendnext.
Kaushik gives the pair a fair chance to have their say. He isn���t endorsing teenage pregnancy. But if it happens you don���t needto run into the nearest abortion clinic.
Own up and be a man.That���s the message. Take it or leave it.
Ruslaan has a ball playing the boy-man looking seriously for bespectacled maturity. JainendraJain���s sermonistic Prem Rog past surfaces in bits and spurtswhen the homilies get prominent. Earlier Jain addressed remarriage. Here headdresses condoms without mentioning them. On the whole, Teree Sang is not quite the film to watch and discard. It does make you think about sex and the ceetee. And how the thrill goes out of the window when parenthoodcalls.
Baby, you ain���t seen nothin��� yet.