REVIEW: Haal-e-dil is hotchpotch

What do scriptwriters with a lack of ideas do? Simple, take the latest hit film and a couple of all-time hits, and just pull stories from here and there. This is the second film in one week that has a HUGE Jab We Met hangover. And DDLJ. Again. What a way for the producer, in this case Kumar Mangat, to launch his not-so-young-daughter Amita Pathak. Well, let's get on with it.

The film

It's a love story on board a train from Mumbai to Simla. Sanjana 'Sanju' (Amita Pathak) is a middle-class, believing-in-rituals girl in love with her super-rich, not-so-ritualistic classmate Rohit (Adhyayan Suman).

Adi (Nakuul Mehta) is a metrosexual, flirt of a young man, totally into girls and his music. On his way to Simla, he falls in love with Sanju, who's of course, is in love with Rohit. And guess what, there's also a helpful 'aunt' in the bogey to help Adi impress Sanju. As usual, song and dance follows to woo the girl.

Ajay Devgan and Kajol make a three-second, very forgettable special appearance in one of the songs, in trying to be grateful to Kumar Mangat. [READ MUSIC REVIEW]

All through the journey, back stories of Sanju and Rohit keep popping up.

Later, just like Jab We Met, both Sanju and Adi miss the train and try to catch it by cab. Strangely, they take so many breaks in between that we wonder if they want to catch the train after all.

Some screen time is spent on showing us The Adventures of Adi and Sanjana while they're heading back. In this, some unnecessary Veerappan twist is shown when they're lost in the jungle. Just when we think there's a good twist, we come to know it's just in the name of some 'light moments', as they call it. But a Veerappan-like guy, with a strong southern accent, in the midst of jungles in Saurashtra or wherever, is so unbelievable.