Tum Mile Review | Movie Review of Tum Mile

Tum Mile Review | Movie Review of Tum Mile

Film: Tum Mile (Romance)

Cast:    Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan

Direction:    Kunal Deshmukh

Duration:    2 hours 12 minutes

Critic’s Rating: /photo.cms?msid=5223936

Director Kunal Deshmukh returns after the success of Jannat. This time round, he sculpts an extremely mature and engrossing account of a mercurial relationship between an artist (Emraan Hashmi) and his muse (Soha Ali Khan). Now that’s a love story that’s been told before. But what makes Tum Mile alluring are the performances and the narrative structure: both innovative, multi-layered and show casing depth.

First, the story-telling…It’s a simple plot. Emraan, an art student, spots activist Soha, energetically espousing her cause (global warming), despite the blinding rain, on campus in Cape Town. He naturally loses his heart to the avant garde Ms Ali and moves in with her after a whirlwind courtship. The relationship soon hits rough weather with the usual bread and butter, male-female ego concerns. He’s jobless and she’s rich. What’s more, she’s paying the paani-bijli bills and even offers to help him when dad’s sick. Doesn’t take long before Emraan’s nursing a bruised ego and Soha’s stomping out on feminist issues. Six years later, the couple have their Titanic moment as they try to survive the July 2005 Mumbai deluge.

Do the rains — and the near-drowning experience — bring them together? Now that’s not as important as the fact that the director artfully keeps hopping through different time zones, inter cutting the past with the present, and keeps the interest level high. The romance is handled with a heightened maturity, bringing to fore a relationship that is both mature and most real. Yup, you almost seem to know the so-much-in-love, yet so-hurting couple. Also, the sequences of the downpour and the deluge seem credible enough, lacing danger with fear, as the people of Mumbai try to wade through waist deep water to safety and sanity. Of course, the tragic notes the director strikes were unncessary and somewhat filmy.

But what really stands out in the film is the acting. Emraan and Soha create a chemistry that is brimming over with warmth and remains quite unpredictable till the very end. Their conversations — and concerns — are straight out of real life. While Emraan displays his usual depth at translating the archetypal edgy character into flesh and blood form, Soha truly comes of age with her rendition of the woman of substance who loves desperately, lives intently and serenades the unconventional. As for Pritam, he once again proves he’s the hottest thing happening in the music department, right now. With tracks by Mohit Chauhan, KK, Javed Ali and Neeraj Shridhar, Tum Mile is eminently hummable.

Go, get a taste of substantial Bollywood with Tum Mile: a story well told.

A word about:

Performances: Watch out for knockout performances from both Emraan and Soha. while Emraan has already been improving his career graph with his gritty delineation of the edgy boy-next-door, Soha truly comes of age with her interpretation of Sanjana, the balsy woman with a caramel heart.

Music: Pritam is on a roll. Once again, he comes up a winner with tracks like Tum Mile, Tu hi Haqeeqat, Dil Ibadat and Iss Jahan Mein. The title track, Tum Mile, has three versions. We’d reccomend the Javed Ali rendition, although both Neeraj Shridhar and Shafqat Ali are fun with the bouncy and rock version too. For Mohit Chauhan fans, there’s the mellifluous Dil Ibadat…

Choreography: No dance numbers to boast about. But seriously, you don’t miss them in this slice-of-real-life drama.

Dialogue: Very earthy, very real, very succinct, very little. The actors mostly communicate through their facial expressions and body language.

Story: Ankur Tewary’s story does draw its climax from headlines: the July 2005 Mumbai delgue. But it does it tastefully, even as it creates a nuanced love story.

Cinematography: Prakash Kutty’s camera recreates Titanic’s terror in downtown Mumbai as it wades through the flooded streets of lower Parel. But more than the Mumbai monsoon, it’s the couple’s camaraderie — and intimacy — in Cape Town that crackles on screen.

Styling: Emraan with his hoodies and tees and Soha with her uptown chic are apt and intense.

Source – http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/moviereview/5223591.cms

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