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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An must see/av film - (almost) best thing since sliced bread, 1 Nov 2001
By A Customer
Not a great fan of Shilpa but this was an awesome, akki-shilpa-sunil romantic twister that just rocked/boogied the screen. The film is serenaded with mindblowing and tantalizing music, which you will want to hear over and over again. I still get lost in the depth of these songs. Make space for this film of your shelves , next to Hum Apke Hain Kaun, Dilwale, etc...
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Heartbeat (dhadkan) - will make you miss a few, 1 Nov 2001
By A Customer
An indulgence romantic film which was so tailor made for Adonis Akki, and the two sultry Shettys -Shilpa & Sunil. The tantalizing trio (boy! do they look good) are caught up in this tangle of web which consists of whether to deny or listen to the heartbeat. Not so easy decision to make especially when love crosses the traditional family boundaries. The soundtrack should be credited with equal excellence, as it provides quality, soul searching and seductive music for the ears,like Dil ne yeh kahan hai tumse, which you will want to hear over and over and over. Make space on the shelf, next to the Hum Apke HK, Dilwale DLJ, Kuch Kuch HH, for this movie.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Bollywood romance with a bit of an edge, 1 Feb 2009
This movie is about a girl (Shilpa Shetty) from a wealthy family who forms a relationship with a poor boy (Sunil Shetty - no relation. Father of girl then betroths her, without her knowledge, to a rich boy (Akshay Kumar). She tells Dad about the boyfriend and he suggests the parents meet him. Father disapproves (because of the boy's arrogant attitude as much as his lack of means to support her). He gives the girl a choice. She decides to obey Dad and the boy is heartbroken and vows never to forget her.
Now this could have become a fairytale about the two lovers getting together. But we have seen the boy is deeply troubled, obsessed, has a 'chip on his shoulder' about his illegitimate birth- and just generally doesn't deserve her.
She marries saintly Akshay and falls in love with him after marrying. Then old boyfriend comes back to claim her, and ruin husband. Throw in a wicked stepmother, stepsister and stepbrother for ever-loving and enduring Akshay, and you have the stuff of melodrama but also the romance of the newly weds. There is romance but also an edge. Boyfriend looks unbalanced and dangerous, where will this go...? What will wife do seeing her old love...?etc
This plot may have been done in many ways before but I thought they did a good job of it (except for overacting and stereotyped wicked step trio).
Akshay was very watchable: handsome, tender in the love scenes, and believably saintly- and there was good chemistry with Shilpa. I wish Akshay would keep churning out these romances as he is very good in them and I don't like his recent comedies much (except for the recommended, if silly, Singh is Kingg perhaps) and I avoid his action ones as they isn't my style.
Sunil portrays the troubled and complex boyfriend extremely well- and in fact maintains this is his favorite role to date)
Although there is a bit of an unlikely fairytale finish, I quite liked the theme of whether consistent love and Godliness can triumph over hate and negativity. The movie does have heart and integrity.
If you like the genre of Bollywood romance and don't mind the morality play quality to them (which I like) this is highly rated. Overall this movie tends to score fairly highly by web reviewers.
It has been compared to Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (definitely a decent movie). I don't think you need to compare them as the plot is different. The husband isn't nobly handing the wife back. Also there is this theme of saintliness and whether it can triumph, which wasn't looked at in the other one. See both!
The music was fine when on but I didn't take any songs away with me. The acting during the songs is good though and does deepen the plot and keeps you interested. There's not a lot of dance. Cinematography is fine and there are some nice visuals.
This isn't a movie for the art cinema set or those who abhor sentimentality and Bollywood melodrama. However I'm not in those categories and I liked this one.
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