No patch on Aashiqui

No patch on Aashiqui

Ratings: 5/10

Adiya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor

That was 1990. The clan of Bhatts, in consonance with Gulshan Kumar, created a musical sensation riding on the brand new voice of Kumar Sanu and fresh faces of Rahul Roy and Anu Kapoor. The songs rocked then, they continue to rock now. The debutants stayed longer in the industry than they would have otherwise, thanks to Aashiqui. 

The film became a cult — first with its pulsating romantic numbers and only then with its love tale.

Aashiqui 2 is nowhere near this blockbuster and the Bhatts would  not be squeamish about admitting this. There are too many blocks in this one, starting from the unexplained presence of alcohol as virtually the main lead, to the end building up to become such an unexplained disaster. There’s a lot of mismatch  in the middle too, starting all the way from the missing chemistry between the lead pair of Aditya Roy Kapoor and  Shraddha Kapoor. She looks beautiful but static, he intense but not for her. The songs too, despite the alluring vocal chords of Arijit Singh, are forgettable and no patch whatsoever on the Aashiqui blockbusters. 

But then, there might be a lot of youngsters who would like Aditya Roy Kapoor here — for, despite the bottle he holds throughout, his presence is towering — you could call him the cutest, most vulnerable looking and yet the most adoring Bollywood bewda in a long time. Except for the alcohol, he seldom trips in his character of a singing sensation who loses his drive in the world of fame and glitz.

You would think that once he finds a reason to be — to groom a bar singer with immense talent to the top of the music industry — he should’ve bottled up the bottle. Not so, not once, not ever. That would, perhaps, explain the ‘given-up’ look that Shraddha wears all through the film. There could have been only two reasons for this one to work — chemistry and music — both are missing.

 Source: Sunday Pioneer, 28 April, 2013