Cocktail is been there done that movie types. It is the 21st century version of Kuch Kuch Hota Hain. Cocktail is all about three friends Gautam (Saif Ali Khan) who is a true womaniser, Veronica (Deepika Padukone) she is intense, wild, maniser (new word ;)) and the third friend is Meera (Diana Penty) she is calm, introvert.
All the three characters go through the following emotions: Love, Lust, Friendship followed by Heartbreak. The strong part of the film is that all the three characters are strong especially it is Deepika's best performance of her career or you can say that Veronica is the man in the film. Saif is the soul of the film who thinks friendship and love are equally important and then there is Diana who is cool but her presence makes a difference in the film.
The dialogues in the film are catchy, straight to the point. Some of my favourite scenes are
When Gautam says, "Tum lonely ho aur main characterless."
Gautam talk to Veronica and Meera together about his feelings towards each of them. “Look. You love me. I love her. Let’s sort this mess out.”
Veronica tells Meera "Gautam se zyada tum zaroori ho."
Veronica to Gautam: "tum mere liye wo ho, jo meera tumhare liye hai."
The music in the film is really good; every situation in the film has a touch of song. Though in the second half of the film all the songs are played in loop some scenes are dragged but we cant forget that the movie reveals its true colors in the second half. The thinking level of the characters is quite practical. Thankfully, Cocktail manages to hit quite a few high notes post-interval too.
On a personal note each and every person living in a metro city who is or was in love, or a person who is really close to their friend will connect to the movie. While watching the movie I missed some very good friends of mine. I was able to relate myself to some scenes of the movie. So any person who loved and lived their relation will like the movie.
You can’t hate a film like Cocktail nor can you love it in totality.
well said... nice movie... halanki main bananti to duration thodi kam rakhti aur end alag hota. cumon its such cliche... boy in the end gets away with the good homely girl :-)
ReplyDeletesame here Farheen mam and frankly speaking for me the movie is only about Vernoica and Meera's friendship. :)
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