Name: Miley Naa Miley Hum (2011)
IMDb: link to Miley Naa Miley Hum page
Genres: Comedy, Romance. Country of origin: India.
Cast: Chirag Paswan as Chirag S. Mehra, Kangana Ranault as Anishka, Neeru Bajwa as Manjit Ahluwalia, Kabir Bedi as Siddharth Mehra, Poonam Dhillon as Shahlini S. Mehra.
Written and directed by: Tanveer Khan.
The Three Acts:
The initial tableaux:
Chirag is the child of a well-to-do family, and had to choose a parent when they split up. He would rather they get back together, which seems unlikely.
The grown Chirag is involved in both his father's and his mother's successful business efforts. In addition, he's a tennis player. He alternates months spent with each parent. Each parent wishes Chirag would stay with them exclusively.
He helps his young woman cousin start her own fashion line.
His father and Manjit's father decide that Manjit and Chirag should marry. Manjit moves in with Chirag's father and takes over cooking. Chirag decides to act like he is interested in Anishka.
Delineation of conflicts:
The parents put pressure on Anishka to relinquish any claims on Chirag. Neither Anishka nor Chirag are happy with this. The parents and Manjit would prefer that Chirag marry Manjit, but that seems unlikely.
Chirag's friend and Anishka's business manager cook up a deal for her to be Chirag's very public girlfriend for 20 days. Since Chirag is a pretty much a rock star, he gets a lot of attention from women other than Anishka, and after a while she begins to not like it.
Resolution:
Manjit decides to leave Chirag's father's house; Chirag's cousin decides to go home; both Chirag and Anishka are unhappy about the charade coming to conclusion. Will there be a Hollywood ending?
One sentence summary: Fun and touching musical comedy.
Statistics:
Cinematography: 10/10 Bright, sharp, colorful, well-framed.
Sound: 8/10 Blaring during the musical numbers; otherwise fine. Some of the English subtitles show a rudimentary knowledge of English spelling. 'Shore' for 'sure', 'sine' instead of 'sign', 'bye' for 'buy', and the like. Some of the singing in the musical numbers was gorgeous, with rich, well-trained voices and good instrumentation.
The musical number where Chirag keeps insisting that he and Manjit are not together, but she insists that they are, is just hilarious.
Acting: 8/10 Good, but not great.
Screenplay: 9/10 Moves along and is delightful. I have not liked a musical in perhaps 13 years. I was surprised at how much I liked this one.
Final Rating: 8/10
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