Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

A goodlooking couple with zero chemistry in a goodlooking film

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is an elaborately and expensively wrapped dud. True, a romcom is a cute little formula that plays to teen expectations, but this one is so brainless it is embarrassing. Every bit of work in the film is in its production values—matching colours, contrasting hair styles, matching lighting, contrasting wardrobe. Even the personality traits of the boy and girl look art directed—a fussy and compulsively ordered boy, an unruly and muddled girl.

Some of the scenes in the movie are so ‘cute’ they look uncannily like the parody Zoya Akhtar was doing in Luck By Chance, particularly in its  sequences of the leading lady in the film within a film (Isha Sharvani) and the colour coordination of her bedroom. Unfortunately, it is not just the art decor in EMAET, but the script—it could well have been written on a sheet of tastefully embossed tissue paper. The only plot device is to refine and redefine the differences between Rahul Kapoor (Imran Khan) and Riana Braganza (Kareena Kapoor).

Rahul’s parents are uptight Mumbai socialites (Boman Irani and Ratna Pathak Shah). They know the difference between a butter knife and a fish knife at the dinner table, but little about their son. Riana’s mom and dad are a cool, laidback middle-class couple who know and love their daughter for what she is.

But hey, we are told, these cultural and personal differences are no match for the divine chemistry between the sexes. A relationship made in heaven is in store. Unfortunately, this premise is the divergence between promise and reality, the crevice through which it slips. The leading lady and gentleman have zero screen vibes, and, ironically, the best scene in the film is when Rahul’s predatory ex (Sonia Mehra) tries to seduce him in a restaurant toilet. Now, that is chemistry!

Set elegantly in Vegas and Mumbai, Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is a goodlooking and flat movie experience.

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