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Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche (Romance Movie ,2002) Starring
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Synopsis
She is young. She is beautiful. She is Aman’s dream girl. She will soon be yours too.
Yes, Esha Deol is here with Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe, a Boney Kapoor film.
Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe is directed by Vinay Shukla, the award winning director of Godmother.
Starring Esha, Aftab, Jaya Bachchan and Sanjay Kapoor, the film is essentially a love story while exploring the relationship between a
mother and a daughter. Mansi Devi (Jaya Bachchan), and Esha Deol (Esha) play mother and daughter respectively in the film.
The film has several twists guaranteed to keep the viewer engrossed.
Music is by veteran composer Rajesh Roshan. Nine melodious tracks, set to lyrics by Suryabhanu Gupt, Dev Kohli and Ibrahim Ashk, bring
a breath of fresh air.
Review
Aman (Aftab) is a student of the National Institute of Fashion Technology. A teetotaler, Aman excels in his studies and shuns all bad
habits. In brief he is any girl’s dream boy.
Aman’s carefree and smooth life is, however, disturbed by the entry of beautiful Esha (Esha Deol) into NIFT. For Aman, it is love at
first sight. He tries every way to get Esha’s attention but to no use. She ignores him totally.
Here Aman’s boisterous father (Anupam Kher) steps in as his savior. He holds a Valentines Day party to which he invites all the NIFT
students and their parents. In the party opportunist Aman resorts to his song-and-dance ploy to woo Esha in front of her alleged
mother Mansi Devi (Jay Bachchan). But in vain. All his amorous advances and covert glances are bluntly rebuffed by Esha.
Unable to comprehend Esha’s complete refusal, a desperate Aman shows up at her home and proposes marriage in front of her mother. It
is there that the truth alights on him and our hapless movie viewers.
The movie goes in flashback. Esha’s life is haunted by her tragic past. The truth is she has already been married once to Mansi Devi’s
son Dushyant (Sanjay Kapoor). Yes Mansi Devi is her mother-in-law.
To Esha’s misfortune her husband Dushyant was a sadist and a sexual pervert who wanted to capture her nude on his video camera on
their suhaag raat. Obviously she refused to comply.
On another occasion Dushyant literally forced her to share bed with his foreigner friend. In her bid to escape Esha threw a burning
lamp onto Dushyant. The tent with Dushyant in it caught fire. And thankfully for Esha her brute and kinky husband was left alone to
burn in hell. But as it often happens in Bollywood kitsch, the phoenix does rise from the ashes.
Back to the present. It is Esha’s engagement ceremony. And Aman is her groom-to-be. Everyone is in a good mood. To Esha’s and Mansi
Devi’s surprise, Dushyant shows up and spoils the evening. Rest of the story revolves around Dushyant attempting to terrorize Esha and
Aman coming to her rescue and proving himself a real hero in her eyes.
Being hailed by its producers as ‘a film with a terrorizing twist’ “Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche” is at the core a stereotypical Bollywood
flick that is marred by cliches. As such, there is nothing novel about the story and director Vinay Shukla’s sense of cinematic
presentation.
As far as the performances go, both Aftab and Esha’s acting is bogged by usual hamming. Esha in particular has a long way to go before
she could live upto the credentials of her distinguished lineage. Although she exudes confidence before the camera her demeanor in
general gives the impression of arrogance.
On the other hand, Jaya Bachchan delivers a consummate performance and Sanjay Kapoor does leave an impression with his kinky stuff