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.

 Saif Ali Khan, very well displays his years of experience in acting. And well, that guy is born for a flirt-confused-childish character. Although this film, some time earlier in his career, with him still being young, would have worked better. This film is Deepika Padukone’s best performance by far! And well, the hottest too. Diana Penty’s acting is understandably immature, this being her debute role. However she shows no camera consciousness what-so-ever and looks astounding throughout.

 The script, penned by the rom-com priest Imtiaz Ali with Sajid Ali is refreshing and water tight. Homi Adajania’s direction is good but not comprising of any fresh directional elements or frames we haven’t seen before.  The music by Pritam is trendy and will definitely get your feet tapping. Humour is very fresh and hilarious, thankfully, not comprising of any ancient, repeated jokes. The highlight of the film is the brilliant characterization of the three characters. Dimple Kapadia and Boman Irani too deliver an absolutely splendid performance.


Cocktail is all and out a good, refreshing film, worth a onetime watch at least. The teenagers should especially catch this one.


Rating- 3/5