We are family Review

Are you keen on having a look at the indianized version of ‘Step mom’, Produced by Karan Johar and directed by debutant Siddardh Malhotra. You might be, because the posters might drag you to the theatres because they have old wine Kajol along with tempting vodka Kareena…

Plot: It’s a story of a man, two ladies, three children and lots of tears….

Family members:

Arjun Rampal He looked apt for the role and has done justice as a husband who is tangled between his ex-wife who is about to leave this world, his new caring girlfriend and his three loving kids

It’s cake walk for Kajol to play a mother who is suffering with cervical cancer and who is reluctant to leave this world. She is natural and best suited the role.

Bebo (Kareena) is the surprise. She is no more zero size so she looks gorgeous and cute in all the outfits. You might think twice when asked who among Kajol and Kareena scored more in acting …Yes you guessed right as you might incline to Kareena, because she is more appealing as she got meatier role obviously for she is the step mom.

All the three kids were great and their performance is superb.

Melodrama…Err…’Hell’ O’ Drama

Needless to say how the movie turns out to be if we have a cancer patient in the movie. Tons of moments to bring out tears and the characters act smartly to hide their pain and try to laugh and sing and dance at disco. And you know the sorrow is tripled because we have 3 kids and all the proceedings happen thrice. Add to it, we had two ladies behaving like cat and mice.

I love the role of the doctor, because she is one who puts this drama to an end periodically by conveying the health status of Kajol and thus bringing forth the movie to an end.

Ok…Goodies now.

Nevertheless there were tender moments especially the scenes with the kids. It was touching to find them in such a situation and later how they cope up with their new mom. Teenage girl’s character is developed pretty well and the director is able to capture her tantrums perfectly.

If Kajol is stuck in the pain, It’s Kareena who made some merry and made the kids happy along with the audience.

Bit surprising to know that Shanker, Ehsaan and Loy gave the music, may be because the music flows in sync with the script. The supposed to be Rocking Disco number is the only one that is heard out because it is so bad and loud. Other tracks neither haunt you nor distract you.

Final Say:

I found no specific exciting thing about this family except some fine chemistry between Kareena and Kajol.

Catch it if you gel well with daily soaps

Rating

2/5