Cocktail- Fully Fizzled Up

Courtesy- Eros International Media Ltd, Illuminati Films

Over the decades, our film fraternity has revolutionised. The result is that directors are portraying the same conventional themes, in a new way. Cocktail is one such example; A romantic comedy comprising of a love’s triangle.  However, the dark, tardy confusion usually clinged to the love triangles, are only brushed through in this film.

 The film starts by a scene of the flirt, womanizer, Gautam (Saif Ali Khan) flirting with arbitrary women. Then, the gullible, naive, traditional Indian girl, Meera (Diana Penty) is introduced. Lastly comes the reckless, ever so effervescent, party animal Veronica (Deepika Padukone). Veronica and Gautam become “friends with benefits”. The “awesome threesome”, as Deepika says in one of her dialogues, party on beaches, hang out at diners and even start living together. All’s going well until Gautam’s mother decides to give a surprise visit. Only to walk up on her son dancing in a negligee with a slutty make up. Further, Gautam, not wanting to give his mom an early attack by introducing her to the party animal Veronica, conveniently introduces Meera as his prospective wife, to avoid the arranged marriage scenario. What follows is a love triangle complication.

Ishaqzaade: "Ishq" Zyaada Story Kaam

(Courtesy: Yash Raj Films)

Personally, I am a big fan of "gunda" (hooligan/goons) movies, and if the main leads die in the end, I'll be in love with it! Although Ishaqzaade didn't exactly make me fall in love with it, as it managed to make other teenagers. 

Ishaqzaade is a simple story amongst the backdrop of trigger-happy goons (read politicians) with strong – headed and dogmatic people of the North going all out to kill their own kith and kin. It takes us to a rural place in UP, which, like many other places in India, is triggered with politics.


The protagonist, Parma (Arjun Kapoor), is a hot headed, ruthless quintessential grandchild of a local corporator standing for elections from the Chaudhari's (Hindu side) who, in one scene, burns of the entire oil shop of a man just because he asked him to flee from the Qureshi's (the Muslim party). And Zoya (Parineeti Chopra) is a free spirited, wild (non cheesy way!) beautiful tomboy who once wants to run for the elections like her father and become a mla. She's from the family of Qureshis, and as you may have guessed, the two sides are at logger heads with one another. Oh, and by the way, every character in the two families is trigger happy, although the director seems to have refrained from a lot of bloody, gory scenes, thankfully! The characterization is really commendable.