PYAAR KA PANCHNAMA

Realisticaly Humerous !

Thanks to my wife Nidhi ,I saw Pyar Ka Panchnama last night and it was a wonderful experience. Don’t remember laughing so much in any movie lately, and that too on blatant realities of life .A blend of Dil chahta Hai & Pyaar ke Funde, this movie is better than both combined. Experimenting with new comers the producer and director have very successfully presented Male Bonding, Love affairs & Life in a chummery

The story revolves around three friends, Choudhary, Nishant alais Liquid, and Rajat alais Rajjo. They seem to be management graduates or software engineers working in the corporate world and living together in a common flat. All of them are desperate to have a girlfriend, and at the very first opportunity each manages to get one and this completely changes their lives. They are used, misused, insulted, and exploited by them in the name of Love using all the methods in the armamentarium of the ladies ,teasing, flirting, tantrums, howling and even seduction. Rajat moves out for a live in relationship with his girlfriend, due to lack of space and privacy, and his girlfriend keeps raving all time about her ex boyfriend. Nishant falls for a colleague who has a boyfriend tucked in, at secundrabad. Choudhary couples up with a girl who had just had the fifteenth breakup in her five years of relationship. As it usually happens in all affairs, where affairs are made for the sake of having a girlfriend, these three too, actually drove the men up the wall. While they plan a stag trip to Goa to distress, the ladies seduce, threat and force their ways too and accompany them making their holiday hell.

The movie very realistically highlighted the desperation of the young men to have a girl friend which gives the girls ample opportunity to have a personal assistant who can be actually treated as a dog ,well highlighted by the title song,patta daal galey mein khud,mein ban gaya kutta.Using the good old attitude of dropping men like a used condome, the three girls use great words and phrases to suit them as, space, individuality, privacy, relationship, we are just friends, don’t take advantage of my sweetness, a kiss is no indicator of love, if i slept with you doesn’t mean you owe me, you don’t care for me ,you don’t love me anymore, I mean nothing to you, what do you know about a relationship, its not easy to walk out of a past relationship, you cant understand women, what do you know about Love when you have never been in a relationship, I am still friends with my Ex, mere parents theek kehtey thhey. Rajats girlfriend behaves as any women in a live-in-relationship ,where she wants the rights of a wife and even more, with no commitment. She even tries to interfere with his financial matters and his relationships with his parents and family.

Nishant spends a whole day, leaving his job, waiting outside a parlour, while his so called girlfriend, gets made up, to go for a date to her ex boyfriend, for a patch-up and to plan the future, and if this was not enough he also shops for her, foots the parlour bill and keeps awake whole night doing her share of work while she cuddled up with her boyfriend. Choudhary’s girlfriends Ex, threatens him of dire consequences if he didn’t stop meeting her and Rajats girlfriend enacts a mock rendezvous with her ex boyfriend, to bring Rajat on his knees. Amidst all this chaos created by the desperation and gullibility of the boys, and the use and throw exploiting attitude of the girls,the boys are turned into puppets in bonded labourers on the verge of nervous breakdown.

In spite of this being their debut films all the six characters, specially the boys did a great job. The story was contemporary and realistic and the screenplay intensive. The pace of the movie was fast and never lost momentum and left no scope for monotony to set in. The depiction of life of three bachelors ,including the clothes, life style and language was a true depiction of a chummery and male bonding. The language is foul, but is exactly what the youngsters use today. Screenplay is authentic and the dialogues impactful. Direction is superb with a very high standard of editing. Songs and music are good and humorous, and fitted the milieu of the film well. The most positive aspect of the movie was its spontaneity, flow, simplicity, naturility and the ability of making every man, who has dealt with a lady, to relate to it. The ten minutes of monologue of Rajat towards the end ,highlighting the nature of the woman, their tantrums, fads and explosions was true to every world and extremely hilarious and beautifully highlighted that men and women are from different planets

The movie, however ends on a very happy note, with all the three men, walking out of the relationships to be back to their blissful state of singleness and free lives of bachelorhood. Every viewer will find him or herself or experiences of their lives in this explicit movie and the movie is a must for all to watch, specially the youngsters.

Sanjay Kapoor ,Delhi