| Reply 1 : Cast: Karisma Kapoor, Rajneish Duggall, Jimmy Sheirgill, Divya Dutta, Ravi Kissen
Direction: Vikram Bhatt
Genre: Thriller
Story : The only way supermodel Sanjana can save her rich kidnapped boyfriend, is unravel her past lives, follow clues and find answers. Will her shocking 'blast from the past' salvage her love in this lifetime?
Movie Review : Meow! This one's a cat stuck in a time warp - with all its lives, love and many masters. The jarring screech in this story though, is still a fur-ball coughed up from the early 90s. 'Dangerous Ishhq' is about as dangerous as Animal Planet - watched through 3D glasses (help!) from the safety of a living room. Yes, it has fancy words like 'Past Life Regression' and 'Soulmate', but so do educational docudramas. It has mystery; of love spanning 500 years, several cultures, Mughals, Rajputs and a partitioned India. Sadly, the magic is as tame as your neighbour's pet billi. Meow again! The story is repeated.
Supermodel Sanjana Saxena (Karisma Kapoor), is a cool kitten, until her wealthy boyfriend, Rohan (Rajneesh Duggal) is kidnapped. But ACP Singh (Jimmy Sheirgill) isn't one to pussyfoot around. He sends his troops out while this modern day woman straps on her stilettos, slips into designer clothes, glows with flawless makeup, and sets out to find clues. How? Without a sane thought she jumps into a therapist's couch, goes through tormenting (for us) sessions of past life regression, and travels across three lifetimes, as Geeta, Salma and Paro (unfortunately not the Devdas-ian one). Stuck in limbo, trying to reunite with her soulmate; poor chap, is always captured or killed in every birth by her other co-traveling, obsessive lover. The restless, lovelorn karmic souls meet in this lifetime (hopefully the last), to rewrite their destiny. For an unfulfilled love story set in bricks, mortar, mansions, swords and forts of centuries; the corny (read: outrageously regressive) lines fit the time zone; there are plenty of shrieks and screams, but none stemming from the passion in the script.
After long, Karisma Kapoor is reincarnated onscreen. Between panic-struck moments and over dramatic emotions, in almost every frame, she seems stuck in the 90s. There are moments of brief intensity where she performs well, but nothing that jumpstarts us back to life.
Rajneish Duggall doesn't have much to do, because his hands are tied, literally, throughout. Jimmy Sheirgill, as a trying-to-be-tough cop, and Divya Dutta as Sanjana's support, are quite wasted in their half-baked characterizations. On the other hand, Ravi Kissen makes his short screen time worthwhile.
In a frantic effort to immortalize Karisma's comeback, director Vikram Bhatt has gone too far back in time. And left us weary with all the time travel. With a weak script, under-sketched characters, and past life incidents presented as casually as a dream sequence, he does little to breathe life in this passionless love story. The actors are not the only waste of resource; it's also the 3D technology that fails to add any dimension to this film. Himesh Reshmammiya's music fails to traverse eras, or even leave us with a 'haunting' melody.
A movie like this comes only once in a lifetime (Thank God!) |
