Tum Mile Review: Rain Drain
Tum Mile, one of the most awaited films, since the past two months, drizzles most of the time with spurts of heavy showers intermittently. As predicted, this is a story of two lovers, separated by fragile egos, who begin to understand each other finally, in the July 26’2005 mega downpour.
Story of Tum Mile
Akshay(Emraan Hashmi) and Sanjana(Soha Ali Khan) chance upon each other on board their flight to Mumbai from Cape Town. They are actually meeting after a period of 6 years. The movie goes into the flash-back mode and intermittently swings into the present. When it goes into the flashback, we come to know about how the two courted each other and how they broke up eventually. Emraan Hashmi plays an art student and Soha Ali Khan plays an activist. They fall in love, settle for a move-in relationship, and even move out quickly. The main reason for the rift is the monetary issue and the mega-ego of Emraan Hashmi’s character.
When they meet in Mumbai, both take solace in each other in the midst of the grappling Mumbai floods The last few minutes of the story dwell on how Emraan Hashmi plays the perfect hero, saves his girlfriend and loses his best friend in the biggest downpour of Mumbai history.
Plus points of Tum Mile:
1. Pritam may just win an award for his superb music in Tum Mile, considering there was hardly any good music (apart from Himesh Reshamiya’s Radio) worth noting this year.
2. The camera work by Prakash Kutty and the way the floods have been shot (no matter it looks a tad ‘set-like’ in some cases), has been done in a commendable manner.
3. Kunal Deshmukh has chosen a very good subject, that people can relate to, as no one in India, particularly Mumbai, has forgotten the 26th July rain calamity. He also does a good job in covering the disaster part.
4. The screenplay is very good, especially the toggling between the flashback and the present.
Minus points of Tum Mile:
1. The treatment of the love story is very predictable and does not really surprise you. The story of a guy being arrogant and ‘khudar’ enough not to care for the monetary support from his wife/girlfriend has been seen in so many films, like Raja Hindustani and Aashiqui. It is the typical ‘rich girl meets poor boy’ story. Aww, come on now! Kunal Deshmukh, the director, had a much better love story in Jannat, something that was relatable. Scenes like the hero’s friend dying, and the hero saving lives of all and sundry, are seen before as well.
2. Sadly, in the movie Tum Mile, the ‘flooding of Mumbai’ looks like a mechanism to move the story ahead, it does not even look like a back-drop. If you take the example of Titanic, the sinking of the ship blended superbly with the romance, and you could feel for the characters. You do not get that ‘involvement’ in Tum Mile
3. There was news that the ‘flood in Mumbai ‘ shots in Tum Mile were edited out by Mahesh Bhatt, much to the chagrin of director Kunal Deshmukh. Not really a wise decision, one must say, who goes for the romance, when your promos show the worst natural disaster in Mumbai?
4. Characterization of Emraan Hashmi is suspect: He is shown to have an arrogant nature, who even gets the goat of a rich investor of art, for no problems. Then, we do not understand how he coolly goes back ‘to work’ and becomes successful.
Performances in Tum Mile:
Emraan Hashmi gives a superbly, understated performance, which shows why he can carry off a movie on his shoulders, and that too without showing off muscles. Soha Ali Khan, does go over-the-top in some scenes, especially when it comes to outbursts, but otherwise she is fine. Believe, it or not, the best performer in Tum Mile is debutant RJ Mantra. He even manages to steal the thunder from Hashmi,when put in the same frame. His death is the best scene of Tum Mile.
Final Words about Tum Mile
People want to see Tum Mile, for the 26/11 Mumbai floods rather than a love story. Their promos also show the same thing. Showing a boring love story that has been seen numerous times and relegating the Mumbai floods to a mere backdrop may make viewers feel cheated. The best testimony was in the theater itself: they booed during the romantic scenes and watched transfixed to the screen during the Mumbai floods scenes.
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Posted by Starwin on 13th November, 2009
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