Cocktail Movie Reviews

If Bollywood conferred titles on its filmmakers, then Yash Chopra would be The High Priest of Romance and Imtiaz Ali would be his heir apparent. Imtiaz, who has directed love stories such as Jab We Met, Love Aaj Kal and most recently Rockstar, is a keen observer of heartache and the manners of beautiful people in big cities. In Cocktail, he functions as a co-writer. He creates a love triangle that references Archie's comics, the 1980s television show Three's Company

Two's company; is three a crowd? Homi Adajania's romantic comedy Cocktail is a slice-of-life film mounted beautifully and imaginatively on a large canvas with the vibrant colours of London, Cape Town and New Delhi. The film addresses the proverb--two is company; is three a crowd--situation throughout. With some super-light, sweet moments that one has seen in the mid-90s American sitcom Friends; that revolved around a group of friends in Manhattan

The first half of Cocktail is cracking. The humour flows freely; there are genuinely warm moments and a novelty to the drama. Two girls – wild child Veronica (Padukone) and Plain Jane Meera (Penty) – live together, their contrasting personalities grounding each other and bringing them closer as friends. Enter guy (Khan) – goofy, flirtatious, fun. Guy and wild child have a fling, Plain Jane is wary of guy but eventually falls in love with him, guy loves Plain Jane too

Hi hi, kiss kiss, bye bye. He’s a love machine of sorts, chasing skirts, sarongs, but never saris (not yet). A 30-something NRI dude even ensnares his new oriental boss by wondering if she believes in love at first sight. She does, and they’re all set for a bubbly night. And you’re clubbing with them at a London hotspot, high as a kite. Nice. That’s Homi Adajania’s Cocktail, a hip, happening, happy date flick which right till the intermission point has you going hurray hic hic

Ever since Farhan Akhtar captured the zeitgeist and (re)defined the genre with Dil Chahta Hai (DCH), Hindi movie friendship has never been the same. Vows and tears and pledges of loyalty (a la ‘Yeh dosti hum nahi todenge’) are now irredeemably old school. In new-age Bollywood, friends are people who hang out together, make fun of each other’s failed romantic encounters and preferably go on sunkissed ad-film vacations that will forever define their memories of youth

Hi hi, kiss kiss, bye bye. He’s a love machine of sorts, chasing skirts, sarongs, but never saris (not yet). A 30-something NRI dude even ensnares his new oriental boss by wondering if she believes in love at first sight. She does, and they’re all set for a bubbly night. And you’re clubbing with them at a London hotspot, high as a kite. Nice. That’s Homi Adajania’s Cocktail, a hip, happening, happy date flick which right till the intermission point has you going hurray hic hic

So the story is about a compulsive flirt Gautam (Saif Ali Khan) who gets into a no-strings-attached relationship with the hot-n-happening Veronica (Deepika Padukone). Girl-next-door Meera (Diana Penty) is literally the girl Gautam takes home to his mother (Dimple Kapadia) to cover-up his live-in with Veronica. Until by interval point his heart starts fluttering for Meera. And the rest as they say is ‘history’.

Romance comes easy to Saif Ali Khan. He slips into the romantic characters, playing the uber-cool, trendy, suave, metrosexual guy with elegance. Films such as DIL CHAHTA HAI, KAL HO NAA HO, HUM TUM, SALAAM NAMASTE and LOVE AAJ KAL only consolidated and cemented his status in this genre. That's one of the prime reasons why COCKTAIL generates curiosity. But this one's about love and friendship. A tug-of-war of sorts. It's murmured that

Somewhere in the second half of Cocktail, in an anguished outburst Saif Ali Khan announces: “(I) feel like a toy… do bachchiyan khel rahi hain mere saath.” That curiously sums up his latest home production, directed by Being Cyrus man Homi Adajania from a script by Imtiaz Ali (co-written with his brother Sajid Ali). Just that the toy is a little too old to be tonked around by girls half his age. But the stale ale is not the only wrong ingredient

Cocktail follows the basic Bollywood genre-geometry of a love triangle. The good part about this one, unlike most love triangles, is that the three protagonists get to know who loves whom pretty early in the picture and the revelation isn't stretched till the climax. However, beyond a point, the film isn't able to use this element to its merit and falls for the regular range of spite-to-sacrifice sentiments of any triangular love story. Cocktail, basically, is the same prose with new grammar.

The heart has its reasons, the mind its methods. When the two are sought to be yoked together on Bollywood’s big romcom canvas, the result can be touch-and-go. One misstep either way could mean a hopeless nosedive either into mushy drivel or pretentious claptrap. But no such worries here. For the most part, Cocktail, directed by Homi Adajania and scripted by Imtiaz Ali (a sort of high priest of the genre), steers clear of the pitfalls and delivers an eminently watchable love story

Both Imtiaz Ali (writer) and Homi Adajania (director) have broken stereotypes earlier in their films – Rockstar and Being Cyrus respectively, so it was bewildering to see them sticking to clichés – the good girl gets the guy while the bad girl gets punished for her choices – and because it’s a Hindi film, a chance for rehab and redemption. While the guy, who subscribes to the bad girl’s wham bam thank you stranger lifestyle, is expected to stay reformed and not stray in future

If there’s anybody out there who knows ACP Vasant Dhoble personally, then trick him into watching this movie. Dhoble might get a heart-attack after watching this film and for all you know, he might even take sannyas. Also, after seeing this film, he might give up his night rounds and start playing hockey with his hockey stick! Since we don’t know ACP personally, we decided to write the review for him and tell him why he should be watching Cocktail

You can’t hate a film like Cocktail nor can you love it in totality. If you’ve liked Ali’s storytelling before, there’s no harm in catching it at least once. Cheers!

For those who have loved Saif and Deepika’s ‘Love Aajkal’, ‘Cocktail’ will not disappoint you as it has some shades of the former. The storyline of the movie is gripping and will keep you hooked and booked.

Director: Homi Adajania Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Diana Penty, Dimple Kapadia, Boman Irani Synopsis: Gautam (Saif Ali Khan) is an......

There’s this guy, he’s too cool, ya. Lives and works in London, chases girls, gets ‘em, beds ‘em, moves on. There’s this girl, she’s wild. Has this nice pad in a tony part of London, which she uses as a stop-over to change clothes in between all the partying. And, of course, there’s this other girl, who’s the ‘seedhi-saadhi’ type, you know, covered from top to toe, sweet, shy. Place these characters in a shiny glass jar, shake with a swizzle stick, and you get ‘Cocktail’

Boy loves girl. Boy ends up falling in love with girl’s best friend. Best friend also loves boy. But best friend sacrifices boy for girl. You get the drift? Meera (Diana Penty) is stranded in London after her husband Kunal (Randeep Hooda) refuses to take her home. Her knight in shining armour turns out to be the party-animal-drunk-out-of-her-wits Veronica (Deepika Padukone). Veronica takes Meera home and allows her to live with her. Soon, Veronica hooks up with serial-dater-and-womanizer Gautam

You know that time when you chance upon this new product at the supermarket? Maybe it’s a new drink or a bottle of jam — it comes in a really nice looking bottle and looks so enticing that you have to pick it up and bring it home. And then you open it and realise it only looks good on the outside. The product is past expiry, the fizz has gone out of the drink and all you are left with is a nice looking bottle. Yes, that. Homi Adajania’s “Cocktail” is definitely

There’s some good stuff in ‘Cocktail’. Adajania who’s made ‘Being Cyrus’ with Khan is a director with style. Here, he joins hands with Imtiaz Ali’s nifty dialogues, and we are made to feel good by seeing these lovely looking people do the stuff that people do when sex is in the air, and love is around the corner.

It's not enough that he's sharing a flat with two gorgeous women, having casual sex with one, while the other does everything from his laundry to making him breakfast...he had to go and fall in love, and ruin what most men would describe as "living the dream". With the right ingredients in the right proportions, 'Cocktail' might have made for a smooth concoction. Alas, Cocktail, directed by Homi Adajania, is no saucy menage a trois, although it does involve three friends

Why, Bollywood, why? Why this cold shower, this Vicky Christina Bar-Bar-Rona? Why must you promise a potent, heady concoction only to water it down with clichéd club soda, like a sadistic bartender? Why must the most modern aspect of a contemporary film be the clothes the actors wear? Why must characters, in a bid to prove how blasé they are, flip themselves the bird while trying on said clothes? And why -- oh lord why -- can't films be as efficiently short

But, of course, Cocktail is not your regular film. It is about Gautam Kapoor (could there be a more filmi name?) hitching up (for lack of a better word for a wham-bam-no-strings-attached-live-in affair) with Veronica, and then realising that he is in love with her roommate, Meera, who is also in love with him but doesn’t want to come in the way of her best friend and roomie. Now you know why this film is called Cocktail. They are all freaking mixed up

It's a cocktail alright, but one which lacks punch. A flat drink with no fizz and lots of salt at the rim of the glass which knocks you back with its sting. Illuminati films churns out its third release in as many years and director Homi Adajania puts in far too many ingredients without first taking care of the base liquid that will make for a potent COCKTAIL. The base liquid in this case is the story which is very weak. Saif Ali Khan's character is well defined

Few films have made me feel so nicely elated and then left me completely deflated in a span of just 146 minutes and a few seconds. But I should have known that; the producers and director of this film say so clearly in the title. Alcohol, whether mixed or taken straight, is a downer. And Cocktail, because of its high sugar content, initially gives a heady rush, but leaves a bad hangover. Cocktail is set in a simple world where there are only two types of women

It’s a pity, and not just because this could have been the great unconventional cinematic threesome we so desperately need. Cocktail has a handful of moments and a few genuine sparks, but finally crashes and burns so spectacularly that it’s hard to focus on the positives. We must thank it, thus, for Diana Penty.

As far as entertaining storytelling goes, Cocktail is far from being that. As the clock crawls by, the story goes from nothing to nowhere. Even as the first half with its free-spirit, cheerful vibes, and breezy treatment has you savoring the mix and going hic hic hurray, the second half just like a hangover the morning after makes you feel nauseous and dizzy.

Those who love judging a film by its trailer will be quick to assume that this is another version of ‘Love Aaj Kal’. Those who watch American reality shows would spot similarities with ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’- as Saif looks old enough to father the two leading ladies in this film. But those who actually watch this film will know that it’s neither. It’s a hollow approach to relationships that leaves you with an empty feeling of nothingness

Two girls Veronica, Meera (Deepika, Diana) barely meet in the middle of the night at the toilet of a coffeeshop. One’s drunk. The other's depressed. The very next minute, drunk girl takes 'damsel in depression' home. “Suno (Listen),” says the ‘Sati Savitri’ Meera at the kitchen right after, “Tumne kuch khaya bhi nahin. Mein banaoo? (You haven’t eaten anything. Should I cook something for you?)” Despite a rather hectic nightlife, vivacious Veronica has no other friends