10 ml Love

When you look up 10ml Love on the net, it shows you a year of release as 2010.  But to my knowledge, the movie wasn’t actually released till as late as December 2012.  I remember having missed it in one of my 7 movie weekends (where I have a weak track record) and actually looking for it quite hard.

The usual star cast associated with off-beat but good movies such as Bheja Fry had got me quite interested in the movie.  So when I stumbled across it once again on Tata Sky, the thought that crossed my mind was – better late than never.  So on one of those messed up Sunday afternoons (I am still shifting), P and I settled down to watch 10ml love along with some messy shifting and unpacking.

 

And the fact that we were working along with the movie has nothing to do with our assessment of the movie – a very resounding below par.  First of all, the movie has nothing new to offer.  It is a straightforward copy of that Sandra Bullock movie from over 2 decades back – Love Potion No. 9.  OK to be very honest – not an absolute copy that we are familiar with but a copy nevertheless.

 

Neel Bhatia (Purab Kohli) is friends with benefits with Minnie Mehta (Koel Purie).  But Neel likes Shweta Rai (Tara Sharma), their childhood friend and is about to get married to her.  That minor detail being kept aside, the 2 of them – Neel and Minnie – are happily getting into each other’s pants.  But Minnie is not the happiest about the wedding.  She has, over the years, fallen for Neel but hasn’t told him yet.

 

Shweta on the other hand, is also quite against the wedding.  But unlike Neel, she isn’t humping around with the loser car mechanic Peter Periera (Neel Bhooplam).  She has in fact given up on him and has resigned to fate.  Simultaneously, there is a 3^rd storyline which is the origin of the title of the movie.

 

The suspicious lover Ghalib (Rajat Kapoor) and his wife Roshni (Tisca Chopra). Ghalib and Roshni have a fight and to solve the same, Ghalib’s mother gives him a potion of 10 ml Love.  The potion has to be given to the person who you love.  But after drinking the potion, you should be the first person that s/he sees.

 

Ghalib manages to do the first part right.  But before the 2^nd part can happen, fate intervenes or should I say The Delhi Electricity Board intervenes.  In the ensuing confusion, one from each pair of lovers has the potion and absolute chaos ensues.  So to that extent 10ml Love is different from Love Potion No. 9.

 

I can tell you that the track from the Sandra Bullock movie is far more entertaining http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8.  The original, I assure you that it will be more enjoyable is available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHkcYCRjr2Y. Expected better.  4 on 10. 

 

Trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGQAJm14KE