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.