Ishkq in Paris

She turned 38 earlier this year.  So she would have been say a little over 36 when she shot for the movie.  Not an age that one would expect leading ladies to look terribly old right? But all efforts by the make-up man to mask the strained look on her face fail miserably.  Much like the movie itself.  Ishkq in Paris is as disastrous as Preity Zinta looks in her home production.  Will no one produce a movie for her going forward?

The perky PZ that we are used to seeing in most of her roles continues with IIP where Ishkq is all pun intended.  Ishq stands for love.  Ishkq is PZ’s name in the movie.  Yep.  Ishkq Elizabeth Marie is someone who doesn’t believe in long term relationships and commitments.  And so most of her relationships are fly by night and never gets it to a level where it needs a commitment.

 

Why is that? Because her father (Shekhar Kapoor) left her French mother Elizabeth Marie (Isabelle Adjani) when Ishkq was seven years old.  So she doesn’t commit herself with the fear of eventual separation.  All till she meets Akash (Rhehan Malliek) on a train journey from Rome to Paris.  Akash has a similar background at home and therefore doesn’t like commitments.

 

Since Akash has about 16 hours to kill in Paris before his 10 am flight the next day, he asks Ishkq to spend the night with him.  The promise is that they will never meet again.  Suits well for both.  The night is spent with a 10 Euro activity dice picked off a street vendor (Chunky Pandey).  All through the first half you would expect it to land on “SEX” but it eludes u through Party, Drinks, dinner, Movie & coffee.

 

The best part of IIP and kudos to PZ and director Prem Raj for it – it is only 96 minutes long – or should I say short.  But both of them test you to the limit through these 96 minutes.  Name the aspect of movie making and you will find that IIP falls short on most of them.

 

Acting – PZ is average and best.  Rhehan Malliek’s change of spelling doesn’t help.  Move to casting – What the hell is Isabelle Adjani doing in the movie in the first place.  And if you are in a movie at least pretend to lip sync in Hindi.  We know you cannot speak the language.  But for christ’s sake at least pretend that you know.  That’s what you are paid for right? Or did you do this for free out of some misplaced love for PZ?

 

The narration is very slow – 96 minutes seem like 960!!! The music is just about average.  Editing could have cut at 10 more minutes of the movie.  Direction – like Prem Raj’s earlier movies – absent.  The actors could have as well done the job of directing and saved money. The lesser said about the attention to detail, the better.

 

In a nutshell – vastly avoidable.  But not as bad as I don’t love u. 3 on 10 to PZ and the movie. But one cannot help but notice that PZ’s boob job has really started becoming very obvious – no? sorry about the crass ending but it’s a question that has bothered me for the past few weeks.  Anyone has an answer?

 

Watch the trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwSWLjChSs