Break Ke Baad Movie Reviews

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this about certain couples. While they may be in a serious relationship, a good way to figure if they started out being close friends, is if the girl calls the boy by his last name. As does the heroine here. She (Deepika; innately natural) calls her boyfriend (Imran) ‘Ghulati’, his surname -- also a popular Pandara Road restaurant in New Delhi, where the two drive around in yellow Volkswagen Beetle

Love blossoms in sundry colours in Bollywood these days. There are noisy, boisterous, zany, crazy, conventional, unconventional romantic soirees rushing down the assembly line every week. If Break ke Baad manages to hold your attention, despite its plodding middle, it's only because it speaks in a different tone altogether. Danish Aslam's debut film may be a love story, but there is an underplay, a restraint and a sense of non-drama

Break ke Baad has a little of a lot of movies. A little of I Hate Luv Storys, a little of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and a little bit of Love Aaj Kal. The movie marks the directorial debut of Danish Aslam who has earlier assisted on movies like Swades, Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic, Salam Namaste etc. The movie is somewhat cute and somewhat confused much like the love story in it. But overall, there can be no denying that it could have been much much better

Blame it on Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar! More than a decade ago, Bollywood found its unsought messiah in these two filmmakers with a pretty similar history and decided to hail them as something of a Steve Jobs and Bill Gates of glitz and gloss. Both belonged to film families and are instrumental in expanding the family business of movie-making from mind-blowing to monumental by taking inspiration from Sooraj Barjatya, another young director

Break ke Baad is a seemingly ‘with it’ movie, which starts with an innovative title sequence, where the viewer has to literally search for the credit names, which are cleverly hidden within the props and backdrops of the scene. Smart. Once the credits are over, the real film starts, and then the viewer spends the next two hours desperately looking for the story, but alas, there isn’t one. Instead there are a lot of songs, cutesy dialogues

Every now and then (read break ke baad) Bollywood comes up with regular romantic comedies that do not go beyond preset parameters. There is too much of screenplay and literally no story in the film. The entire narrative is stretched on a single conflict and most of the storytelling happens through songs. Adhering to Bollywood customs, there is an attempt to avert a wedding in the climax. You can anticipate the end by the interval yet the predictable plot never comes to the point

Aditya Chopra's DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE, Karan Johar's KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI and Farhan Akhtar's DIL CHAHTA HAI continue to inspire and motivate film-makers to this date. Danish Aslam's debut film BREAK KE BAAD borrows from the above-mentioned films, besides Imtiaz Ali's LOVE AAJ KAL and several other films churned out by Yash Raj and Dharma. I don't think it's sacrilege to seek inspiration from a great film

The love story works upto a point, not thereafter. What works very well in the film is the racy first half and the...