Review of Yeh Pal Ho Na Ho… Kal
May 31, 2009 by FSJ
On the whole, Yeh Pal Ho Na Ho… Kal will not find an interested audience. Lack of face value will only add to its tale of woes at the box-office counters. Flop.
Shri Gourishankar Films Entertainment’s Yeh Pal Ho Na Ho… Kal (A) is the story of a man obsessed with lust, and his willingness to resort to murder and blackmail to sexually exploit the woman he desires.
Rohan and Neha are happily married. One day, Rohan meets his old college friend, Vikram, and Vikram’s girlfriend, Lovey. Rohan invites Vikram home. When Vikram meets Neha at her home, he starts lusting for her. After some days, when Rohan is at work, Vikram lands up at his place and makes a crude pass at Neha, expressing his desire to sleep with her. Neha rebuffs him following which Vikram acts remorseful. They decide that Neha would not tell Rohan about Vikram’s indiscretion, and Vikram would not come to their house again.
Rohan, Neha, Vikram and Lovey then meet at a party. There, Vikram pays a man to harass Neha, and to provoke Rohan into a fight. When Rohan fights the man, Vikram steps in to separate them. How- ever, when Rohan and Neha are leaving, the man again accosts them in the parking lot. This time, Rohan picks up a stick to beat him. Vikram again separates them, and sends Rohan and Neha off in their car. After they have left, Vikram kills the man with the same stick that Rohan had used.
Once it gets known that the man who had fought with Rohan is dead, Vikram goes to Neha when Rohan is not around and shows her, on his camera phone, the clips of Rohan fighting with that man. Neha is aghast that Rohan would be arrested on the murder charge. Vikram assures her that he would not give the police the evidence if she would sleep with him just once. To save her husband, Neha sleeps with Vikram who then continues his blackmailing and visits her regularly. One day, Rohan sees Neha with Vikram in a compromising position. He goes away without being spotted by either of them.
Rohan now makes a plan to kill his wife. He is transferred to Goa, where he attempts to kill her but fails each time. Vikram also reaches Goa, followed by Lovey, who presumes that Neha is having an affair with Vikram. Lovey confronts Neha, who tells her the truth about Vikram’s blackmailing. Lovey then confronts Vikram, who strangles her and leaves her to die on the beach. A fisherman, however, saves her. Lovey then informs the police about Vikram. The police start investigating the death of the man in the parking lot. A watchman testifies that he had seen Vikram killing the man. Meanwhile, Rohan takes Neha to a lonely fort. By the time the police, Vikram and Lovey track Rohan to the fort, he has already strangled Neha to death. Rohan then kills Vikram in front of the police and he is jailed for the two murders.
The story (Ravi Pun) is predictable and, what’s more, it is not plotted very well. It lacks novelty. The twists in the tale are not subtle and, at times, they are so obvious that the audience is not surprised at any point. By showing Vikram so openly lusting for Neha, the rest of the story becomes foreseeable. The screenplay ought to have been structured in a better fashion. Dialogues (Javed Mehmood) are commonplace.
Prakash Sagar, Tina Rana and Rishabh, although lacking glamour, have acted well in the lead roles. The rest of the cast is ordinary, taking away much from the film.
Ravi Pun’s direction is so-so. The lack of suspense is a huge handicap for the film, and makes the audience feel uninvolved in the drama. Jayant Raut’s cinematography is fairly nice. Music (Nayab Raja) is ordinary. Editing (Chaitanya Tanna) is okay. Production and technical aspects are of a fairly good standard.
On the whole, Yeh Pal Ho Na Ho… Kal will not find an interested audience. Lack of face value will only add to its tale of woes at the box-office counters. Flop.
Released on 29-5-’09 at Sterling (daily 2 shows) and 12 other cinemas of Bombay thru N.K. Films Distribution. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released in C.P. Berar and C.I. Opening was weak in both the circuits.
Issue dated May 31 – June 6, 2009
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