Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge Movie Review

Pooja Desai, Ashish Patil (story writers). Anvita Dutt Guptan (Dialogue, Screenplay). Casting director and director Nupur Asthana. Not necessarily in that order, all need to be complimented for a job well done. Not to forget the technicians and all the people who work in the background making the magic that unfolds on screen. MUJHSE FRAAANDSHIP KAROGE is pure magic.

The subject is appealing. Moreover, it's timely, topical and terrific. Speaking of terrific, full marks to the quartet of Saqib Saleem, Saba Azad, Nishant Dahiya and Tara D'Souza around whom the film revolves.

Nupur has done full justice to the excellent story she has in hand giving it the 'full monty' so to speak. She creates the mood and captures the moment of 'Gen X' beautifully. The playground is the college campus and the target is the heart. The tool used is social networking - facebook to be precise.

Vishal Bhatt (Saqib Saleem) and Rahul Sareen (Nishant Dahiya) are buddies. While Rahul is the rockstar singer, Vishal is the lyricist. Preity Sen (Saba Azad) and Malvika Kelkar (Tara D'Souza), too, are best friends. Preity has just moved into the college Rahul is studying in. She heads the photography club and allows no male members. Rahul is the perennial prankster who, along with his friend (good act), spends more time on FB, impersonating others, 'just for fun'. There's one scene where the duo lure a college jerk into 'showing' more on chat 'live' pretending to be someone sexy and hot, and at the same time uploading it for all to see. That video is an instant rage. In one stroke, the scene reveals the power of online chat and also the disastrous side-effects, if 'friends' are not properly screened.