Lets Enjoy

Rating : 5/10
Running Time : 107 Minutes
Release Date : Oct ‘04
Directors & Writers : Siddharth Anand Kumar & Ankur Tewari ; Music : Midival Punditz
Starring : Aashish Choudhary, Roshni Chopra, Arzoo Govrikar, Dhruv Singh, Shiv Pandit, Yamini Namjoshi, Dhruv Jagasia, Jaspreet Uppal, Sahil Gupta, Kabir Singh, Piyali Roy
Timepass film, showing what are the things on minds of the young today (sex), what are the issues they face (mostly with the opposite sex), what do they do (party) etc

Its actually a few sub-plots and some different interesting characters who get together for a huge party in a Delhi farmhouse. The owner of the farmhouse, Armaan, is back from Canada and one of the persons he wants to get in touch with is Shreya, his ex, who he’s not stayed in touch with in the 4 years he was in Canada. We have Shreya and her couple of friends – one of whom is a ‘fast’ girl and another who’s on the slower side. We have Raghu and a very cute Reena, who are celebrating their 5th anniversary at the farmhouse and Reena has decided unilaterally that tonight is the night catching Raghu a bit unprepared. We have a group of three friends, Happy, Bunny and Sodhi, who lose their way a bit on the way to the farmhouse and end up trusting a Mr Bharat Bhushan a bit too much. We have a gay male designer (are there any other kinds ?) and his good looking leggy female entourage. We have a guitarist named Karan. And most endearing of all, we have a very well played local rustic lad, Rajinder, who wants to make it big in the world of modeling and see’s the party as his big chance. Add a couple of smoked out DJ’s, lots of music, a nice pool, a big, showery dance floor and you have all the ingredients for a big party. And, lets not forget a frog named Poppat…

Issues are the shallowness (since there are so many characters, we don’t really get under the skin of anyone), the dialogue being a bit forced / unnatural, trying to be too cool and youthful and the lack of a spark / a big event. It’s a collection of small things and events – nothing big happens, nothing which truly enthralls you or captivates you.

Its interesting as a premise, reasonably interesting to watch but when it ends you wonder what it was all about – it needed something stronger as a central thread to bind it together. Not bad, just about ok…