Director: Sameer Karnik
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Tinnu Anand and Rati Agnihotri.

A va-voom cast is one big crowd-pulling factor for any film. How debutante directors manage to rope in super-stars into their ventures is indeed a matter of wonder. What tops this is that inspite of such financially demanding lucky charms, the films fail to impress. Sample, Kyun! Ho Gaya Na

The film revolves around Arjun Khanna (Oberoi) who is “Coolness personified” He actually goes bowling indulges in rallying and gets mentally stimulated by catching the suspense thriller Gupt on video. What makes him even more unreal is that him even he has resigned to marrying the girl of his parents’ choice.

Diya Malhotra (Ash), on the other hand, believes in love at the first sight and the works. This oomphmati is not one to be left behind. “She” can also bowl. “She” also watches rallying. Not only that, she gets brownie points for spending her weekends at an orphanage run by Raj Chauhan (Bachchan).

Circumstances have it, that Diya has to go to Mumbai to appear for an exam. Coincidently, she stays at Arjun’s home. Where Mommy Khanna (Rati Agnihotri) and Papa Khanna (Om Puri) totally dig her as their prospective D-I-L. Diya is wowed by Arjun the minute she locks eyes with him. But Arjun, deeply entrenched in his arranged marriage mumbo jumbo, rejects her in love. Heart broken, Diya runs back to daddy dearest (Tinnu Anand) in Coorg.

Arjun arrives to compensate for tears shed. Enter Big B (as the orphanage proprietor) to play cupid between the two. Just when you think you have it all figured out, Ishaan (Sunil Shetty) enters frame, and throws everything out of balance. Looks like Arjun has some tough competition.

A while later, you have it all figured out once again. And this time it’s a win –win. Ash dons a different look in the film, with sober coloured out fits and cascading curls. Oberoi is rescued by his oh-so-sensitive lines. Bachchan plays an eccentric old man. True, it varies from his roles far, but the overacting kills the desired effect, Tha storyline is no big shakes, nor is the soundtrack, with the exception of Aao Na by Sadhna Sargam and Udit Narayan.

However, a must-check put is the Khannas’ beautiful house that is undoubtedly cover-page material for inside out side. Also, the aerial shots of Coorg, that appear whilst the credits roll, are simply breathtaking. But one needs better reasons to view a film, does he not?