4/10
Lives up to expectations (If it's YRF, it's gotta be bad)
15 August 2008
Warning: Spoilers
BAH opens with Mahi (Lamba) and Raj (Kapoor) meeting in a Eurail trip in 1996. Mahi watched DDLJ 17 times and set out to look for her Raj. A series of DDLJ events follow and the both end up confessing love to each other – just to realize at the end of the trip that Raj was faking his love to her.

Fast forward 2002 when Raj has met Radhika (Basu) and are living together in Mumbai. Raj is a game developer who gets a chance to move to Sydney but he wants to get rid of Radhika. So he makes many stories hoping that she'd let go of him, but when things don't work out as planned, Raj quietly departs on his wedding day leaving Radika in her bridal costume, weeping and alone.

Fast forward to 2007 in Sydney when Raj is doing very well both financially and socially. He meets a Gayatri (Padukone) a cabbie at night, MBA student and a grocery cashier by day who does not believe in marriages and rejects Raj's proposal. This makes Raj realize how much it hurts when somebody dumps you so he sets out to apologise to both Mahi and Radhika.

Well, that's the story – thin like a hairline. What follows is great locales, quite a few laughable moments, three smooches each with three women, a screenwriter you'd want to slap hardest, good music, bad bad Ranbir Kapoor, a totally wasted Deepika Padukone, horrendous costumes for Padukone (you should see the terrible clothes and jewellery she puts on "Khuda Jaane") and Minisha Lamba who looks like used moisturisers as the only makeup. So that leaves Bipasha Basu, who is the only something watchable in the movie.

This is no doubt going to be Yashraj's fifth flop in a row – if things work out as anticipated. Nothing can save this film. It uses a plot already used more than a thousand times. Given that the plot is old, it still makes absolutely no attempts to give it a different treatment. Sid Anand's graph is worsening with every movie he makes. The film leaves you nauseated, a climax you'd want to walk into the projector room and set the reel aflame and you see Ranbir's wannabe sex-appeal (that does not work out.) So this wasn't something I was not expecting for Yashraj. I knew this film too was going to be a totally waste and ultimately it does.

Final Rating: 4/10
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