Mid-way through this melodramatic melange, TV actor Mahesh Thakur, playing a role presumably inspired by Ajay Devgan in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, asks his bride-to-be to vamoose with her lover who’s waiting outside in a sleek white automobile.
The bewildered bride Chandni (newcomer Reema Sen), who’s a bit of an Aishwarya Rai lookalike, takes up the rather strange offer that the bridegroom makes (“Don’t worry, I’ll marry your sister instead.”). But the man outside in the car isn’t her lover boy, the simpleton Mohan (Apoorva Agnihotri), but his boss and friend, the playboy Rishi (Fardeen Khan), who has offered to bring the love birds together, a la Rajesh Khanna in the 1970s melodrama Amar Deep. After an extremely maudlin family crisis, the marriage never happens and the girl is left with no choice but to move into the playboy and his father Suresh Oberoi’s house as a guest so she can behave like Madhuri Dixit in Hum Aapke Hain Koun.
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As for the rest, we can guess the outcome of this fast-paced, occasionally unpredictable but ultimately uninspired and illogical romance, even if we aren’t diehard fans of the Mills & Boon genre of filmmaking. Director Ahathian borrows several leaves from his earlier Hindi film Sirf Tum, especially in the climax where the separated lovers miss each other by inches. Too bad Hum Ho Gaye Aapke misses the bus by miles.
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The presentation is felled not so much by a lack of innovative ideas, as by the sheer absence of nurturing devices in the plot. By simply putting good-looking people on well-lit sets and photographing them in flattering postures (cinematography by Ravi Yadav), Ahathian hoped to recapture the verve and vigour of Sirf Tum. Flat chance.
Alas, there’s no Sushmita Sen in this young yawn yarn about youthful affections to brighten, lighten and gladden the frames. Debutant Reema Sen, as the self-willed working-class girl who would rather marry money than cowardice, is pretty much expressionless most of the time, in spite of the slight ‘Rai’semblances. The music by Nadeem-Shravan and choreography are also sub-standard, whipping up more foam than form in this tale of mal-content.
All in all, Ahathian’s second Hindi film is a big letdown.
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