The plot revolves around Karan and Khushi who by a strange quirk of technicolour fate are bonded together by childhood. This despite the fact that she lives in Chamouliand, he in Kolkatta. This is a maudlin affair that buries a potentially sweet love story beneath an improbably pessimistic plot.
The kiddos grow up to be Fardeen Khan and Kareena Kapoor. He wants to go to Canada, she wants to do her Muscat Mumbai University. An accident throws his Canada plans awry and he lands up in Mumbai too. They meet, like each other and as in the original Tamil and Telugu versions, bicker and bicker till they get on each others nerves and the viewers too. Turns out that in a testosterone rush, Karan ogles at Khushi's waist and she flies off the handle, heaps him with all manner of invective and asks him to buzz off. What a waist! One question: What's the big deal about remaking a trite South Indian film to begin with?

The opening sequence which introduces the characters with Amitabh Bachchan's voice-over is as banal as it gets..The sequence where a sidey starlet tries to inveigle Fardeen into some heavy duty action smacks of cheap desperation.

Kareena Kapoor is first-rate as always but she should curb her tendency to grimace.
A word of advice: It's time she moved on to sensible directors and chose her roles with more care. The surprise packet turns out to be Fardeen Khan. As Karan FK pitches his career's most accomplished act yet. He provides moments of mirth in a film that leaves us unbearably DUKHI. Avoid it and sit at home and pat yourself on the back instead.

Rasika Iyer