Ishkq In Paris Movie Reviews

Love, as the sages say, is a many-splendoured thing. You can look at it as an occasion for stress and heartbreak (which is why we fall, never rise, in love). Or love can be a celebration of life. Director Prem Raj's debut film Main Aur Mrs Khanna took a quaint capricious look at love during times of adultery. On this occasion (Ishkq In Paris) he takes flight in a Parisian paradise where two strangers, both single attractive and commit-phobic

Romance is the most favored genre in Bollywood, but love stories have undergone a metamorphosis in the recent past. Films like EK MAIN AUR EKK TU, LOVE AAJ KAL, WAKE UP SID, LONDON PARIS NEW YORK and COCKTAIL have redefined romance in our movies. The anguish which germinates from heartbreak, the outburst of emotions when matters of the heart fail and making peace with oneself and the loved one eventually... the storytellers

The ideal conclusion when a man, Rhehan Malliek (Aakash) and woman, Preity Zinta(ishkq) spend one night roaming on the streets of Paris, would be that they fall in love. Alas, in Prem Soni's Ishkq in Paris, this doesn't happen. The girl is afraid of commitment and the guy is happy to play along. So they soak in the sights—the Eiffel Tower especially—drink, dance, make a mock film and do several insipid things but never get around to being serious

Few Bollywood comebacks are going to match up to Sridevi’s English Vinglish, so it’s foolish to arrive at a cinema hall with high expectations. I had zero expectations. In the posters and promos of Ishkq in Paris, Preity Zinta wears short dresses that seem a tad desperate. And the film’s title is encased in a gloominess that accompanies stories that have been done to death. It suggested the standard meet cute in foreign land, followed by a romp

I loved it when Preity Zinta announced to the world she was turning film producer. In male-dominated Bollywood, that takes guts (but then Preity is a lady who has testified against the mafia, so what's producing a film). I was less convinced about guts translating into practical filmmaking sense the moment the promos started airing. As Salman Khan did his item cameo, Preity's Ishkq In Paris shouted out a jaded look. It was almost as if she had made the film

Preity Zinta’s maiden production has its aesthetics in place. Paris is enchanting. The actress is good but there ends the show.

Consider the scenario. Boy sees girl on train, checks her out, comments on her clothes and then introduces himself with a smartass line: “A-cash; cash with an A” (Akash, really; Rhehan Malliek). Under normal circumstances, that would earn a rebuff. But the girl smiles and introduces herself with an equally ridiculous “I-s-h-k-q” (Preity Zinta). Dear lord, they must be made for each other. Of course, had that realisation dawned on them so quickly

Mon Cher! Parlez-vous anglais?, asks Preity Zinta dressed in a short skirt as she travels from Rome to Paris on the Euro Rail. Her companion is Indian born Akash (pronounced A-Cash!) (Rhehan Malliek) who is on the same route for a business meeting. The two exchange pleasantries over a bottle of wine and decide to spend the night in the French capital walking the cobbled streets (Before Sunrise?) and rolling a dice that gives them options

It's just too bad that most of Bollywood has still not learnt the difference between a "good looking" film and a "good" film and makers believe that substituting the former for the latter will get the job of keeping audiences happy done. Ishqk in Paris is a case in point. It's adequately shot (of course, point a lens anywhere in Paris and you'll have framed potential art) and no expense is spared in giving it a Karan Johar production-type feel, which is to say

Bollywood more or less first explored Paris through Shakti Samantha’s boisterously fun film, An Evening in Paris. The film went on to become a huge hit, because apart from other credible factors, the film was lapped up by the audience of that time which got an opportunity to get familiar with the nooks and crannies of Paris, the capital of romance. But that was the age of innocence of 1967 and this is 2013, when Cannes (Paris’ neighbour)

When was the last time when one had a character named Ishkq in a film? Well it is in ISHKQ IN PARIS where Preity Zinta who has also produced the film, has named her character ISHKQ, perhaps to invoke the element of nostalgia that the film viewing public has in mind for her by virtue of the romantic and unconventional tomes that she has acted in past. But ISHKQ IN PARIS is not able to utilize the opportunity of becoming an ode to love

A girl and a guy meet cute on a train going to Paris, spend a night wandering about the city, and come out on the other side with a status that's complicated. This one line brief has resulted in so many engaging love stories, that I went in a tad hopeful. This was, after all, Paris and Preity, a city with magic and a girl with sparkle. Who knew what that combo may yield? Sadly, Ishkq In Paris comes off mostly derivative, and wholly predictable

One night. Two strangers. World’s most Romantic city – Paris. And a night of commitment-less, fun. Akash and Ishkq encounter each other on Swiss Rail ala DDLJ. They become friends When Harry Met Sally Style and suddenly just when Hum Tum was going to knock at the film’s door; they decided to introduce a family drama track to harp on melodramatic elements of the film. How Ishkq and Akash survive their test of getting over their commitment

Pretty Priety Zinta turns producer with 'Ishkq in Paris' which is finally seeing the light of the day.. Priety's debut as a producer is beautiful and picturesque as the ever lovely Paris but the movie helmed by Prem Soni who also directed the disastrous Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor starrer Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (the 2009 Diwali bomber), Prem seems to be so overwhelmed with the city that he makes his camera fall in love with Paris but while doing so

Conceptually alas, this globe-trotting enterprise is a non-non, bereft of a substantial storyline, and so excessively dedicated to its producer-cum-heroine showing off a range of casual chic costumes, that it ends up looking like an extended photo-session.

Sadly, Ishkq In Paris comes off mostly derivative, and wholly predictable.

Ishkq in Paris' is the sort of film that inspires its director and its leading man to assume aliases so they might escape responsibility for subjecting us to this travesty they've committed to the screen. Leading lady Preity Zinta, unfortunately, is too well known to hide behind a fake name. Preity, playing Ishkq, a permanently perky Parisian photographer, is the sort of girl who takes off for the weekend to Rome because she

Preity Zinta makes an honest effort at being the life of the film but doesn’t succeed. Though she tries to look smoking hot, her face no longer reflects the youthful charm of her Veer Zaara and Salaam Namaste days. The only highlight of the film, when the screen really comes alive, is her song with Salman Khan (‘Kudiye di kurti’), thanks to his star charisma. A special mention to cinematographer Manush Nandan for capturing some really beautiful visuals

Ishkq In Paris had 3 Ps – Preity Zinta, Prem Raj & Paris, to make it a beautiful love story but love is not at all the agenda till the......

Ah, Preity. When we first met Preity Zinta, we were bowled over by those sparkling eyes, those dimples and that genuinely fresh candour. When, in Dil Se, Shah Rukh Khan choked on his burger as she casually asked about virginity, we could relate. We rooted against the girl his character loved because of the character we invariably fell for, dooming the movie’s fate without realising it. And it felt worth it. What a girl, that fiesty, ebullient, Perk-eating Zinta