Pyaar Ke Side Effects: Review
09.16.2006 | Posted at 8:45 am by premii- Movie Plot
- Siddhartha alias Sid (Rahul) has the ideal life. He has a girlfriend Trisha (Mallika) who supports & understands him & finally India is about to defeat Australia in a mother of a match and right in the middle of this shinning moment.
Trisha proposes marriage. Sid panics Marriage is different. Different? That’s polite, marriage is MARRIAGE. It’s wrong, it’s terrifying, it’s for somebody else, not him but Trisha wants everything love, marriage.
She wants a loving husband, the brats, a beautiful home with picket fences-everything and the only way that Sid can keep Trisha in his life is by committing to her. Thus begins his search-through women’s magazines.
His sister’s advice his mother’s nagging & his roommate’s constant red alert against marriage, confused Sid marches over to Trisha office to make sense of the masses in his head he ends up instead asking her to marry him, only to stop her from crying
Now begins his nightmare as Sid wades through an engagement, the search for a perfect engagement ring, furniture hunts and conversations about children and then of course to top it all, he meets the family.
Trisha’s father-retired General Mallick (Sarat saxena) or ‘papa’ as Trisha would have him called the old monster – who hates the very sight of him and constantly tries to disconnect him from Trisha. Then watch what’s NAKHRA goes on……….
Once in while, a film makes you smile. Not because of what it strives to be. But for it sheer sassiness and temerity.
Going into the new-age movie mantra of urban relationships, Pyaar Ke Side Effects (PKSE) comes up with a winsome twosome who love some, lose some….and emerge out of the battle of the sexes healed and….quite wholesome!
Simply a case of a comedy that loses its laugh lines, midway.
On the whole, ‘Pyaar Ke Side Effects’ is not infectious. But it does promise 2:20 hrs of enjoyment and fun.
KNOT AND CROSSES: The disagreements surrounding an impending marriage add up to a fresh, fun rom-com.
PYAAR KE SIDE/EFFECTS has a refreshingly different theme and is handled in an equally novel format. At the box-office, the film caters to the multiplex audience of metros mainly. Business beyond multiplexes seems doubtful.
