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Salman's date with fame
VERSATILE CHARMER: Salman Khan with Bhoomika in the action-packed romance.
Tere Naam (HINDI)
Cast: Salman Khan, Bhoomika Chawla
Dir: Satish Kaushik
Music: Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid, Wajid
RIDING ON myriad controversies and record advance booking, Salman Khan returns courting name and fame with Tere Naam. For a large part he succeeds and manages to pull off the lover boy act yet again. As the obsessive lover, the role may be blending the reel and the real at times, but it takes nothing away from the performance of Salman, who breathes life, tears and smiles into his role. Now ragging a college fresher, now being the decent boy next-door, he is charming all the way. It is an act he has mastered over the past decade or so. It is an act, which takes some beating, something that Salman manages with élan in the second half of the film as a chained, mentally disturbed lover. Not quite Majnu, but this Radhey-Nirjara romance will find plenty of takers among the Salman faithful.
He has for company Bhoomika Chawla, who makes the most impressive debut since Bhagyashree walked into the hearts of cinemagoers with Maine Pyar Kiya and just as easily disappeared. Her tantalising innocence, her beguiling simplicity, her bewitching ways keep you gaping, she asks many delightful questions. If at one place her dupatta tripping from the shoulder gives rise to hope, at another, you feel like putting the same dupatta back in place. Such is her innocence, so lovely is her manner. With her `lost-in-the-woods' expression she complements Salman's now exuberant, now exasperated lover to the hilt.
This tale opens as the usual college romance. The brat. And the beauty. One short of manners. The other of words. One firing on all cylinders, other like a candle, which can melt but can't burn. The girl meets the boy, they fall in love. There are no villains, hardly any worthy rivals. But love is always impatient. As much with circumstances as people. Same is the case here as our hero is bashed up for standing up for a woman - heroine's sister - about to be wronged in the unmentionable street. And sent to an asylum.
Does love conquer all? Does it beat steadfast in the heart of someone whose mind is no longer in place? Love can hurt but is also assuages. Go ahead, watch this action-packed romance. Salman has seldom been better in recent years. And Bhoomika brings back the exhilaration of first love, the elation of the first shower of youth.
ZIYA US SALAM
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