Bollywood directors should stop either stop reinventing the wheel or do it sensibly. The director wants to portray a dream like atmosphere. A damsel in distress meets a mysterious young man in magic-land Corsica. Both boy and girl meet again in Delhi, this time immersed in their daily lives. So far so good. This topic has been handled in many movies before. Turns out all the guy is missing is that he is in a wrong profession. He would rather be a movie script writer. However, the director unnecessarily tries to make this into some sort of a mystery, a soul searching quest. Significant scenes of this phase seem to have been inspired from other movies, however they seem out of place here. For example, at some stage Ranbir develops schizophrenia when Deepika ditches him for not being the same happy go lucky tourist she met in Corsica. He then decides to scare his boss, like the narrator in Fight club scares his boss. In another scene, his Buddha like quest to find the 'answer' leads to his childhood story teller, an answer the audience already knows. This may have been pointed out by other reviewers, but the character of Ranbir is a well earning young man, from a well to do family. If he really wanted to pursue his dreams, it would have been very easy. I mean if your humdrum job alows you to go on a 15 day vacation in Corsica and rent a convertible, Im sure you can enlist yourself in a film making course. If the protagonist was a from a poor or lower middle class background, his struggles would have been more understandable. Farhan Akhtar's Rock On dealt with the same issue of a rich broker trapped in hum drum life, in a simple but graceful manner. My advice to Imtiaz Ali: get basics right before emulating Hollywood greats.
