In times when the nation is debating over eminence of educational institutions, Roshan Abbas' film makes the debate much simpler. " MIT aur IIT mein sirf ek alphabet ka farak hain ", self-assesses the college principal in this film. So is this film about academic evaluation? Not really! Is it about the education system? Not exactly! Is it a campus love story? Not completely! Is it about student problems and parental pressure? Kind of! Always Kabhi Kabhi remains as indecisive and inconsistent as its title and is a muddle of multiple college concerns.
Set in such fancy convent campus where girl's skirts end much above their knees and Romeo and Juliet continues to be the most important chapter in classrooms, Always Kabhi Kabhi is an Archie type... oops... archetypal campus caper with the usual suspect supporting cast of Satish Shah, Lilette Dubey, Navneet Nishan.... (Oh how did they miss Archana Puran Singh!)
Taking her daughter's name a little too literally, Aishwarya's (Giselle Monteiro) mother wants her to be Miss India. Tariq (Satyajeet Dubey) is the idealistic intellectual whose father gives him no other option but MIT for further studies. Nandini (Zoa Morani) is the tomboy whose parents are so super-rich that, as per Bollywood norms, they are supposed to have no time for their daughter. And Sameer Khanna (Ali Fazal) is blackmailed by cops when he lands himself in some drug dilemma.
Adapted from his 1999 play ' Graffiti ', Roshan Abbas' Always Kabhi Kabhi comes in a little too late in the day, addressing issues which have recently been dealt with in Bollywood to better outcome. The problem with the film is that there is hardly any problem till the interval by when the over-enthusiastic students only believe in song, dance and drama. And post interval there are so many problems with the students that the director doesn't know how to deal with them. So he conveniently puts the entire blame on the parent community (the latest Bollywood trend) for having over-ambitious expectations from their kids. So much so that it seems like an antidote to Baghban where the offspring were unanimously blamed!
Set in such fancy convent campus where girl's skirts end much above their knees and Romeo and Juliet continues to be the most important chapter in classrooms, Always Kabhi Kabhi is an Archie type... oops... archetypal campus caper with the usual suspect supporting cast of Satish Shah, Lilette Dubey, Navneet Nishan.... (Oh how did they miss Archana Puran Singh!)
Taking her daughter's name a little too literally, Aishwarya's (Giselle Monteiro) mother wants her to be Miss India. Tariq (Satyajeet Dubey) is the idealistic intellectual whose father gives him no other option but MIT for further studies. Nandini (Zoa Morani) is the tomboy whose parents are so super-rich that, as per Bollywood norms, they are supposed to have no time for their daughter. And Sameer Khanna (Ali Fazal) is blackmailed by cops when he lands himself in some drug dilemma.
Adapted from his 1999 play ' Graffiti ', Roshan Abbas' Always Kabhi Kabhi comes in a little too late in the day, addressing issues which have recently been dealt with in Bollywood to better outcome. The problem with the film is that there is hardly any problem till the interval by when the over-enthusiastic students only believe in song, dance and drama. And post interval there are so many problems with the students that the director doesn't know how to deal with them. So he conveniently puts the entire blame on the parent community (the latest Bollywood trend) for having over-ambitious expectations from their kids. So much so that it seems like an antidote to Baghban where the offspring were unanimously blamed!
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