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Neal `n' Nikki (Hindi)

Cast: Tanishaa, Uday Chopra

Director: Arjun Sablok

I am hot. I am not a virgin. Do me... I want to show my body... so says Tanishaa Mukerji, here packaged anew, ostensibly just the way guys want their girls to be! Welcome the new-age heroine. No bindiya, no kangan, no sari. She is all body, no soul, no substance.

Sorry, Arjun Sablok, if you messed it up with `Na Tum Jaano Na Hum' a couple of years ago, this time, you have really reached a dead end. There is no story, no spark, no performances to speak of. Just a series of picture postcard Vancouver looks, just a series of inanities between in the name of sweet nothings.

If this is cinema aimed at the young, you might as well substitute young with the juvenile. Of course, Sablok is helped not a whit by two `actors' who are neither performers nor stars. They ensure neither an initial at the box office nor steady collections picking up through word of mouth. Tanishaa is all skin and giggles. She wears little, very little, gives it all. All to no avail. Ditto for Uday Chopra, who it seems, is an earnest trier, one who would not stop until the door has been firmly closed shut, bolted and locked. A passable actor with no charisma of a hero, he is at best a miscast. Want to watch "Neal `n' Nikki" just to see how a guy and girl meet in Vancouver when he is out to enjoy the last few weeks of bachelorhood? Do so at your own risk. "Neal `n' Nikki" has neither nice moments to rev up an evening nor a minute to tickle you in private. Just good music wasted in a bad, bad film.

ZS

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