Love Breakups Zindagi

Yet another Friday and one more rom-com with a self-explanatory title in theatres. Love Breakups Zindagi (as expected) is all about love, life, romance, relationships, guilt and a few tears. An abundance of emotions which hopefully will culminate in a win-win situation for several confused characters two and a half hours later. Some songs and dance routines. Wise mothers. Fun-loving grandmothers. A predictable storyline... time to move on.

So there's Dia Mirza (Naina) -- the Mumbai girl. Quintessentially smart. An artist. Great friend, loving daughter. Would probably score a nine on ten in most areas of her life. But a lost cause when it comes to her romantic inclinations. And her roommate (Umang Jain) Ritu, a popular face from a chocolate advertisement keeps binging on ice-cream. The ultimate panacea for a semi-break-up. Convenient pegs for the scriptwriter to begin.

Zayed Khan (Jai) is the sharp, happening, fun-loving dude. Yet he's a wimp when it comes to his love-life. Engaged to a boring, health-conscious, control freak. Stereotypical characters. Meeting at a friend's wedding. As expected Cupid is lurking in the mustard fields around the corner. Let the revelry begin.

Love Breakups Zindagi begins on a note of restlessness. Dialogues are stretched, situations are created and actors struggle with lengthy dialogues. For the first few reels Dia Mirza flutters her eyelashes, emits a sigh of pain and the tears are always ready to spill out. All because her boyfriend is committed to the syndrome of 'all work and no play'.

It takes the debut director Sahil Sangha almost half the film to establish the characters and their foibles, their trivial eccentricities. Maybe because he presumes the audience for his film is likely to be as dimwitted as his cardboard characters.