Pyaar Impossible! Movie Review: Not Impossible But A Difficult Watch

Getting to the basics, the film opens at a college campus in California where both Alisha (Priyanka Chopra) and Abhay (Uday Chopra) are students. Alisha is gorgeous, plays the guitar and sings for her rock band; Abhay, on the other hand, is the quintessential college geek and is madly in love with Alisha. Alisha is oblivious of his existence. He saves her life at one point but she still does not know who he is.

We cut to Mumbai seven years later. Abhay is still in love with Alisha but like all prototype geeks, he is a science fiction enthusiast and a computer wizard developing revolutionary new software for years. The software is stolen by an unscrupulous man called Sidhu (Dino Morea) who meets him posing as an investor.

Abhay leaves for Singapore to look for Sidhu. He does not find Sidhu at first but bumps into Alisha who conveniently heads the PR and marketing division of the same company where Sidhu supposedly works. Abhay follows her home and lands right in the middle of Alisha's nanny crisis. Alisha is now a " single divorced working mother" , a fact you cannot possibly miss as it is said at least a dozen times in the film. Alisha describes this "condition" as very difficult " You know how it is?" goes the whine though the trials and tribulations of single motherhood which completely elude you here in this bizarre setup.

She mistakes Abhay for a nanny and quickly dumps her six year old daughter Tanya in his care without even a valid token query. Mystifying! But this is only the tip of the iceberg. If the mother is flighty and irresponsible, the daughter is a complete nightmare. Indian mainstream cinema is peppered with insufferable and precocious child portrayals but this one grates on your nerves like none other. The scene where Tanya threatens to call the police on Abhay in order to get rid of him is so offensive that it makes me wonder what the writers were thinking when they put this gem in (Tanya says " Agar mein police ko kahoongi ke tum mere saath bad bad things kar rahe the to woh kisse believe karenge? Tumhe ya mujhe?" ).

As the film directed by Jugal Hansraj goes from one weak scene to the other, you are just hoping that the laborious saga would end, as the humour and the chemistry just do not work as well as it may have been set up for. Uninspiring characters, forced situations and a confused screenplay make it a difficult watch.

But Priyanka looks stunning throughout the film and Uday tries his best to infuse life into his nerdy act but none of the players can lift the ordinary written word, though the make the fare as possibly entertaining as possible.

At a certain point in the film Sidhu says to Abhay "It is all about marketing" . The makers of the film seem to have gone along with this philosophy forgetting that they need to invest in certain key areas without which no amount of marketing will help, for starters the script. If in a mood for romance, watch it if you must, not an impossible watch but a difficult one.