Teri Meri Kahaani: Boy meets girl. That’s it!


Teri Meri Kahaani
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Prachi Desai
At: PVR & others
Rated: 3/10
Difficult to write a full-fledged review of this one from Kunal Kohli as there is really nothing much to report. Despite spanning three lifetimes in more than a century, the story still does not have anything to tell, either in the name of a romance or any other genre for that matter.
Yes, boy meets girl in 1910 Lahore, he again meets her in 1960s Bollywood and yet again in 2012 London. However, other than meeting the girl, he (and she) do pretty much nothing. Yes, they do sing a song but that’s it. Why would someone make a rippleless romance of this kind escapes a valid answer.
You feel rather sad for the lead couple in Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra simply because they try so hard to somehow click with the audiences. But in the complete absence of a script, sequential events and a storyline, the duo fail to do anything more than looking groovy.
Shahid Kapoor is intense in all his avatars, being the best as Jawed of Lahore. As a cool college choco boy at Stratford-upon-Aon, he does the transformation well. As the Charlie Chaplinish musician, he looks and feels uncomfortable.
Priyanka is breezy and beautiful but she could as well have doing the advert for a skin cream promotional. Kohli, time to remove the rust, please!
Source: Published in The Sunday Pioneer, 24 June, 2012

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