Teri Meri Kahaani Movie Reviews

A self-declared Yash Chopra fan, Kunal Kohli has had a remarkable career thus far. He didn't have a great beginning with MUJHSE DOSTI KAROGE, but surprised one and all with his dexterity in films like HUM TUM and FANAA. THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC couldn't restructure the magic of HUM TUM, but all eyes are on his new outing TERI MERI KAHAANI. The question is, will he be able to strike a chord this time? Preceding its release, the tittle-tattle went on an overdrive

Love is being revisited in three different acts, in true Shakespearean style. Like this prem kahaani that yawns all the way from Lahore to London. Struggling to bloom under the austere eyes of Brit-ruled India (1910); doing the 'twist' in Bollywood's golden era (1960), to digital love-chats in the 'like', 'poke' and 'share' (read: Facebook) generation (2012). But thankfully, this is not about janam-janam ka dangerous love, rebirth or reincarnation; it's actually three love stories

"Who the hell made those teasers? Wasn't Dangerous Ishhq enough for us?" asked the pretty girl at the café at Bandra's Bandstand. They were discussing the box office clash between Teri Meri Kahaani and Gangs Of Wasseypur sitting at an adjacent table, sipping cold coffee on crushed ice. Five out of those 8 teenagers were girls – understandably the discussion was loud and intruding. As the girls started giggling about the ‘escapades’ of Shahid and Priyanka

There is a high probability that all three stories will not appeal to everybody. You may connect with one or two of them but it is unlikely that you will connect with all three. This is what holds back the film from being ‘highly recommended’ and puts it in the category of ‘one time watch’. However, it is a not a bad one time watch at all.

Three Times, that Taiwanese romance Kunal Kohli's Teri Meri Kahaani is speculated to be a remake of, could be compared to three pages of beautiful handmade paper with pressed flowers and subdued fragrance but no writing on them. Almost like evocative visual poems that view the passage of romance between two individuals, played by same actors, through three discrete decades. Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2005 film is imbued with reflective quietude and fragile

As Time Goes By, the famous song from one of cinema's greatest romances, Casablanca, tells us that, at least where love is concerned, the more things change, the more they remain the same: 'You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply, as time goes by.' In Teri Meri Kahaani, 102 years pass. The love story recurs three times — in 1910, 1960 and 2012. The boy and girl, played each time by Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra

In Teri Meri Kahaani, Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra play a couple destined to fall in love across lifetimes. There’s just no getting away from each other for these two, who invariably connect in every birth, only for their romance to be repeatedly thwarted. In one song, Shahid and Priyanka dance inside the Globe Theatre where Shakespeare staged all his plays. In 1960 Bombay, struggling musician Govind (Shahid) and film-star Rukhsar (Priyanka) begin a tentative courtship

The best thing about Teri Meri Kahaani is that it tries to be different. Unlike the Bolly romances of today that start on a New York college campus, travel through the mustard fields of Punjab and end up in a big, fat Indian wedding, the star-crossed lovers here hop, skip and jump from the 1960s to the present and go further back to 1910. Before you roll your eyes and go “Oh, reincarnation!”, director Kunal Kohli makes it a point to tell you that this is a tale

If you thought that the concept of a bride running away from the mandap on her wedding day is something that Bollywood discovered at the turn of the decade, filmmaker Kunal Kohli would want you to get your facts right. He takes this present-day Bollywood formula to ancient times and shows that it was the same case even in 1910 with the only difference being that it was the groom, and not the bride, who walked out of the D-day then. Likewise, history keeps repeating itself

Whose story, make that stories, and to what real end? That is the question that Teri Meri Kahaani leaves the audience with. The answer isn’t even worth looking for. A tale of love and passion that straddles three different eras, the film resorts to much trans-migratory mumbo-jumbo in trying to establish that an amorous bond of minds and souls survives the cycle of life and death and regenerates itself with every birth. Wow!

Mostly I find Kunal Kohli’s films very annoying, none more so than the Aamir Khan-starrer Fanaa where he just wouldn’t stop the sher-o-shairi. The only Kunal Kohli film I sort of enjoyed was Hum Tum, and that was almost entirely because of the presence of Rani Mukerji and not the corny love story she was enacting. Teri Meri Kahaani is not annoying. It is, in fact, mildly entertaining. But it is totally pointless. Teri Meri Kahaani is actually teen prem kahaniyan

The idea of three separate love stories, set in three different eras, played by one lead pair – Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra – is wonderful. The picturisation of the very glamourous and sexy lead pair romancing each other in Sargoda, Lahore, in 1910 to vintage Bombay in 1960 to London in 2012, set to some fabulous songs, is even better. There’s beautiful people, love, romance, poetry, all of it. But do all three stories intertwine into one, big love of a film

Teri Meri Kahaani is supposed to be a timeless love story. Literally. The new film from Kunal Kohli involves Shahid Kapur and Priyanka Chopra falling in love three different times, in three different eras. In Poona and Bombay, 1960; in Sargodha, 1910; and England in the present. Nothing wrong with this premise, except that the three different episodes never come together to form any sort of whole. The characters don’t seem to be conscious of their past existences

The foot tapping songs such as “Mukhtasar”, “Uff” and “Humse Pyaar Karle Tu” are well-written, melodiously sung and deftly choreographed. All in all, ‘Teri Meri kahaani’ is not Kunal Kohli’s best work but still is a light watch sans any vulgarity.

Poona 1960. Actress Ruksar (Priyanka Chopra) and musician Govind (Shahid Kapoor) bump into each other in a train compartment. Sparks fly. They fall in love. Something happens...England 2012. Students Radha (Chopra again) and Krish ( Kapoor again) bump into each other on a street. Sparks fly. They fall in love. Something happens...Sargodh, Lahore 1910. Flirt Javed Qadri and homely Aaradhna bump into each other on a terrace. Sparks fly. They fall in love

They fly faster than sound and Cupid’s arrow strikes a perfect bull’s eye. Of course there has to be that mandatory roadblock that keep the lovers apart. And you don’t have to hazard any guesses what happens at the end to the lovers — that’s over-familiar territory too. So we have Shahid and Priyanka criss-cross time spans to bump into each other as musician Govind and actress Rukhsar in 1960’s Poona-Bombay. They then metamorphose into students

Who wants three Shahids and three Priyankas for the price of one ticket? Not me, even though I duly bought mine, and prepared to be regaled three times over by a pair of actors who are capable of good things on their good days. 'Teri Meri Kahaani' is certainly not going to be counted amongst their best, and I'm being kind when I say that. The film doesn't want to take any risks. If you don't like Krish and Radha of the present day as they hang about in pretty English towns

Really not much as the chapters follow the sweet, frothy, foreseeable tracks seen in all new-age relationship films. Perhaps the idea of two lovers meeting in every rebirth could have been novel (even if the Taiwanese inspiration was so easily traced) but the banalities are a huge setback. Only the realistic chemistry shared by Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra keeps the movie flaming with energy almost all through. The music by Sajid-Wajid has some hummable songs

Who wants three Shahids and three Priyankas for the price of one ticket? Not me, even though I duly bought mine, and prepared to be regaled three times over by a pair of actors who are capable of good things on their good days. 'Teri Meri Kahaani' is certainly not going to be counted amongst their best, and I'm being kind when I say that. The film doesn't want to take any risks. If you don't like Krish and Radha of the present day as they hang about in pretty English towns

As they sit sipping coffee at a roadside café in London, Radha(Priyanka Chopra) tells Krissh (Shahid Kapur) “sometimes life is a suitcase but you feel like it’s a lunch-box” (or was it theopposite?), and if you are sitting in the audience, you might beforgiven for going “huh? Did she really say that?” Be prepared for many such moments during this two-and-a-half-hour filmthat claims to be an epic love story spanning three eras. Director Kunal Kohli is obviously trying to tell you

Who wants three Shahids and three Priyankas for the price of one ticket? Not me, even though I duly bought mine, and prepared to be regaled three times over by a pair of actors who are capable of good things on their good days.

Kunal Kohli's latest is just gloss. TERI MERI KAHAANI is not only plain boring, but it also lacks imagination. With one lead pair of Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, Kunal weaves in three love stories in different settings and different eras. He shows us how the two bump into each other in a train in 1960s; they again bump into each other in London in 2012. Kunal then goes back in time to Lahore in 1910 when Shahid lands on Priyanka's terrace after a long chase

Nobody loves a movie full of clichés. The party really gets pooped when the clichés are about love. Unfortunately Teri Meri Kahaani employs every known truism about love to establish its three love stories across three generations. The end result is an honest middle-of-the-road romance but unfortunately it feels too jaded to be true. So you’ve got Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra and their romance sprawled across 100 years. The first one is from 1960

Two babies, a boy wrapped in a blue blanket (Shahid Kapoor) and a girl wrapped in the pink one (Priyanka Chopra), meet at the hospital, do a bit of gaa-gaa-goo-goo (baby talk) and you know instantly (thanks to films like Khushi) that these babies are destined to be together when they grow-up. It is 1960 and Govind wants to come to the dreamland Mumbai (then Bombay) to realize his dreams of becoming a singer/musician. On his way, fate helps him bump

According to me, the one actress to benefit from this will be Prachi Desai. Watch her in her Asha Parekh get-up. Absolutely charming.

Cracking of knuckles, the Angry Birds background score and pure and pleasant snoring are sounds that one can be greeted with while watching ‘Teri Meri Kahaani’. These are, of course, sounds produced by the audience and aren’t a part of the movie. And while looking at the screen is the primary job in a movie hall, what Kunal Kohli offers us this week makes this the hardest and most ungrateful job ever. It would be easy to pick 100 reasons but one of the popular arguments