Producer: Dr. Dominic Emmanuel
Director: Ajay Kanchan
Cast: Aryan Vaid, Megha Chatterjee, Mehul Bhojak, Shruti Mehrotra, Rati Agnihotri
Music: Tauseef Akhtar

Ajay Kanchan, who has experimented with documentaries so far, is now trying his hand in directing Bollywood with this. Coming from a filmmaker of repute, making film on AIDS, you may hold high expectations from ‘Aisa Kyon Hota Hai’. But what you see onscreen is a big let down. The film lacks content and the screenplay is poor too. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt who handles the script fails to do a commendable job. The film was loaded with hype for dealing with a social relevant issue. Rather what we get to see more often here are songs with sleazy picturisation. 

The narrative a touching tale of an illegitimate son played by model-turned- actor Aryan Vaid. He is a person who does not stick to one partner because of which he contracts the HIV virus. Through him the filmmaker voices out his views about the incurable diseases. Rati Agnihotri is his mother. She is a loyal lady, committed to relationship in spite of facing many odds in her life. In flashback we see that she discovers soon after her marriage that she has been cheated and is pregnant with a child. She doesn’t consider the option of aborting the baby and remarrying and rather gives birth to the child. She dedicates her life for her child and brings him up. But she never reveals to him the originality of his father.   

Aryan Vaid grows up and considers himself of being illegitimate because his mother has never told him the name of his father. This has a negative repercussion in him and he starts distrusting love and relationship. Without understanding what he is doing, he starts indulging in many relations. Soon he is tested positive for HIV and his mother is once again in the pangs of woe. She dies soon after in the process of saving a girl belonging to other community in a communally charged atmosphere. Aryan Vaid takes his turn now to understand the sacrifices of his mother and to commit to them.

The subject of the film is definitely inspiring but it doesn’t have the impact to make one think while watching it. One cannot relate to the emotion and the situations in the film. Also the story deviates from the theme of AIDS ending up with Hindu- Muslim riots. This is also another weakness of the screenplay. On the top the film focuses too much on desire and thrust of sex than on AIDS. There are also too many songs filling up the first part and almost six songs feature there making the appeal of the film look like any other sleazy stuff. Also the flashback and the current situations of events look confusing in the second part of the film.

Rati Agnihotri is top notch with her performance of a suffering and sacrificing mother. The film introduces a string of newcomers naming Megha Chatterjee, Mehul Bhojak and Shruti Mehrotra. But there is nothing much to write about them. Aryan Vaid is also pretty average with his performance.

The film is a let down from a maker of Ajay Kanchan’s caliber!