YUVVRAAJ

The last that such a feeling came was probably when India exited out of the Cricket World Cup last year, in the first round itself. Well, that too stirred at least some emotions.

Yuvvraaj starts like a love story about the love which Deven (Salman Khan) and Anushka (Katrina Kaif) share. In fact, the movie remains that way for a huge percentage of those almost-150 minutes. And then abruptly ends with the re-union of three brothers - Gyanesh, Deven and Danny (Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan and Zayed Khan respectively) - who'd never loved each other before. What happened to the love story, that was initially thought to be what the movie is all about, is still a mystery. But 'Inconsistency' isn't the only thing that the story has.

Deven gets into a contract with Dr. Banton (Boman Irani), who's Anushka's father, according to which Dr. Banton can get Anushka married wherever he wants if Deven does not become a billionaire in a span of 40 days. Dr. Banton always thought that Deven was no good. Deven came up with this contract after hearing the news of his wealthy father's death.

Very sure about turning into a billionaire after receiving his share of his father's property, Deven rushes to his actual home - from where he was thrown out when he was a teenager, thanks to his violent nature. After hearing his father 'Will', Deven learns that almost the entire property has landed into Gyanesh's hands, who's shown suffering from a mental disorder.

Infuriated by that news, both Deven and Danny get into a deal of tricking Gyanesh into naming the entire property after them. In the process of achieving this, these brothers find the love that they'd never let blossom. But not without a twist there! You can watch the movie for that "oh-so-cliche" TWEEEST. And whatever happened to the master Cello player, Anushka, is still under covers. Ssshhhhh....!!!

If only the movie could match the grandeur of it's sets and locations, it'd have been a different story altogether. London, Austria, Prague... all of them. Very scenic and captured decently most of the times. Lavish sets, large mansions, huge paintings within the halls... It all looked very expensive, yes! I wish only things like these could make a movie though. Sigh!

It takes masters to create a masterpiece. It takes masters to create movies like these. A.R. Rahman showed us that he probably is past his best (I'd not want to believe that, but that is what his music indicates). Gulzar's lyrics could not do justice to his reputation. Salman Khan did not even look like making an attempt. Mr. Subhash Ghai... Well, we've seen better movies from him. Faaar better!

In the end, Mr. Ghai can safely say that it was because of the fact that he did not give a special appearance in this one.

The promos of this movie say -

RELEASING ON 21ST NOVEMBER 2008 ALL OVER.

WHY?!?!?!

4/10