Movie review: 'Baar Baar Dekho'

Watching the film, we are just happy to see Jai and Diya together. It could be because they are played by two of the best-looking stars in our cinema. Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif look so made-for-each-other that it seems absurd to even suggest that they can be separated by destiny or design -- or in this case by designed destiny. But human nature is such -- and this is the 'sach' (truth) that this unusually conceptualized film dwells on with mollifying magnificence -- that it sinks the very ship that keeps hope afloat. With believable nearsightedness -- don't we all mess up in life? -- Jai tells Diya on the day of their wedding that he would rather not marry her and instead pursue his dreams of going to Cambridge. The hurt, humiliation, bewilderment and disappointment that Katrina shows on screen in her sequence of painful rejection dashing hopes of shared lifetime, is a joy to behold. This is the first occasion in her career when Katrina has actually sunk her ego into her character. You can see her feeling the hurt and the happiness with equal sincerity. Bravo!