Movie Title: Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
Star Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Imran Khan, Boman Irani, Randhir Kapoor, Ram Kapoor, Ratna Pathak Shah
Director: Shakun Batra
Producer: Karan Johar, Ronnie Screwwala
Music Director: Amit Trivedi
Lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu to Release on 10th February, 2012
How many times have we seen the age old story of the boy and girl meeting, becoming friends, falling in love and then getting married beating all odds? Too many times, right? So this time, we get to see what happens when the boy and girl meet, marry and then become friends. Do they fall in love or does the marriage remain to be the best memory they have? To answer this question, one would have to wait till 10th February when Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu finally hits the theatres.
Starring Kareena Kapoor and Imran Khan, the film, previously named ‘Short Term Shaadi’, has already generated a considerable amount of interest in the audience. We get to see Imran Khan in the role of Rahul Kapoor, an obsessively serious architect who happens to lose his job in Las Vegas. He plans to remain mum on the topic to his parents and find himself a new job. But what he does find is a quick witted and ultra cool hairstylist Riana Braganza, played by Kareena Kapoor in an unexpected twist of the tale. She is everything that he is not and she believes in living every moment to the fullest. Fate leads them to meet again on Christmas Eve for a few drinks. What happens next is possible only in the city of Vegas; the two down a considerable amount of alcohol and wake up next morning to find that they are married to each other. It takes them ten days to get themselves another appointment for the topic of annulment of the marriage. In these 10 days, they develop a kind of friendship that is nurtured by the many moments they share, of laughing together, arguing and fighting. Whether the friendship turns into love is however left to be seen.
This film is a tribute to the popular saying that: ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’. This is director Shakun Batra’s first film after working as assistant director on the likes of ‘Rock On’, ‘JaaneTu ya Jaane Na’. What remains to be discovered is whether the director can do justice to this interesting concept.
The music of the film has been done by the National Award winning music director Amit Trivedi of ‘ Wake Up Sid’, ‘Dev D’, ‘Udaan’ and ‘Aisha’ fame.
The lead actress of the film Kareena Kapoor has claimed that this is one of the very best roles that she has ever played. We cannot comment on the role yet, but she is undeniably looking one of her best in recent times. Let’s hope that the film lives up to the many expectations and makes the best of the Valentine’s Day fever and that Kareena delivers a performance that is truly with remembering.