Ishk Actually Review

One Line Review: A simple perplex tale of long lost lovers, that's miserably depicted. Holds a potential to confuse you to the core.

Positive Points: Just the scenic locales of Thailand like beaches, speed ways and wedding decors.

Negative points : Needless experimentation (with camera), bobbling screenplay, confusing script, poor character performances.

Plot: The film starts off with Gia (Neha Ahuja), who celebrates her birthday at present, is all depressed and in no mood. Back from work, she gets a surprise when Kabir (Raayo S Bakhirta) walks in and takes her out for a surprise. Then the journey ride accelerates a way into their past, where Gia was back in Bangkok to celebrate her wedding with Kabir. Both all in a mood, suddenly are joined by Kabir's friend Ann (Ann Mitchai). Ann just not head alone but bring her new beau Neil along. Seeing Neil, Gia looses the floor under her foot, as Neil is the same guy that she spent an intimate moment with in a club and soon he went missing thereafter.

Living back into the present, Gia now fears to fall in a mess and thus, confronts Neil to return back. Their collaboration after a long makes Gia weak to fall for him, all over again. Uncontrollable now, Gia decides to ditch Kabir for Neil and she does so by heading back to India. Kabir, all devastated seeks Ann as the only support, until she receives a call and seems quite serious. No clue about Neil back here, Gia leads her life alone for 10 long years and now Kabir is back. But, where the ride will take the pair and will ever Gia be able to relive love again, is what the film unfolds ahead.

Direction and Other Technical Aspects : Debutant director Anish Khanna has tried to experiment with the routine norms of direction. But, here the experiment has completely been gone wrong, all because of an over exaggerated thinking. The screenplay turns out wrong at loud, with cameras capturing some unneeded, never imagined weird angles. This completely sours the cake that already has a base of a really weak script.

The story actually starts with a car entering in a 'Dhaba' like scenario and then suddenly pans into a plush office where Gia walks in, completing making the viewers aware well in advance that it has a lot more of this in store. With the movie getting into a flashback also in a flashback, completely irritates the viewers. Whereas considered about the performances, the two seniors (as they should be called in compare to others) Rajeev Khandelwal and Raayo S Bakhirta too deliver a poor performance, stating the over all scenario far beyond worst. Cinematography by Duleep Regmi had a mere scope for improvement but, the screenplay left no stone unturned to make it worse.

Performances: Though being a foremost senior in the league, Rajeev Khandelwal seems to be average. The covert avatar of a flirtatious guy is well pretended by the actor, making him at least bearable onscreen.

Newbie Neha Ahuja had a wide scope to showcase her talent, but the fact of being new towards the camera reflected quite onscreen. Her charm is not at par, but the beauty looks pleasant and requires a bit of training before she hits back on screen.

Considered about the next elder after Rajeev, Raayo S Bakhirta has been wretched, compared to his debut performance in 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama'. The actor, who carried off the role that of an all rugged macho in his earlier however, now with a clean shaven look seems to have shaven off his acting gem as well. The actor requires to join in a sheer acting class soon after this.

The film also introduces a new face, Ann Mitchai, who is quite familiar to the international audience. Ann is a Thai pop star and is trying her hands in Bollywood for the first time. The lady seems to have taken serious Hindi lessons, which pays off pretty well onscreen. Her onscreen confidence is better then the rest and looking at the ongoing trend of foreign actresses, Mitchai succumbs bright scope.

Music: A mixture of several composers, the album is not that happening. With the unconventional lyrics and not-to-chirpy music, the track-list is pretty dull at core. With just one song "Aye Dil Bata" familiar to the masses, the rest simply passes by unnoticeable. Pop singer Ann Mitchai, who also acts a part in the film sang a track "Forever More". Her vocals being fab, the uncommon rather odd lyrics just fall the icing off the cake. Background score eventually pays average for the damage.

Final Verdict: Depicting a tale of unanswered emotions, the film comes out to be a tale that needs to answer a lot of queries, by the viewers. The feeble storyline even bores the viewers to indulge in more of a friendly conversation among themselves. Overall better to be avoided, actually!