Rediff Rating:
The dialogue are gentle, the characters are real and life-like. If you shut your eyes for a moment, you might see your own self in Kabir, Imran or Laila.
Their primary characters, Kabir, Imran, Arjun, Natasha and Laila, are the people you are or may have seen or may have hung out with. School friends, Kabir (Abhay Deol, Imran (Farhan Akhtar) and Arjun (Hrithik Roshan) had made a pact to try out an adventure sport of their choice when they meet next. With Kabir getting married to Natasha (Kalki Koechlin), they take off for Spain in the belief that you are blessed with life only once and there won't be another time.
During the journey, their outer shells are peeled off and their true lives are revealed to one another. The conversations are laced with real humour, it has a mock-you sense of fun without being derogatory or slight. When they mimic their teacher, hum the Doordarshan tune in drunken abandon or peform the Diamond biscuit parody, they aren't acting -- just going along, being themselves as friends usually do.
Doordarshan parody was easily one of the best scenes in the film, and the moment where Kabir expresses without so much words that he is feeling lost and lonely. The tone of the scene is well-maintained!
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