Zindagi Tere Naam Movie Reviews

Remember those early 1990s movies where the hero resembled Vivek Mushran and many scenes were shot in Manali's forests? Zindagi Tere Naam (ZTN) brings back those memories - with a twist or two. Opening with the magnetic Mithun as a grey-haired 'aam aadmi' helping a confused Ranjeeta (grim in her 1980s flicks, still looking serious) at a nursing home, ZTN travels through a love-story's tortuous - and unwittingly funny - moments

Some films arrive too late in the day. Not only because they have taken a long time to hit the screens, but also because the original source [THE NOTEBOOK] and also its Hindi inspiration [Ajay Devgn's directorial debut U ME AUR HUM] continue to be fresh to this date. ZINDAGI TERE NAAM, directed by Ashu Trikha, suffers for this reason. The only aspect that stays with you are some tender moments between Mithun Chakraborty and Ranjeeta

It's the love story of Siddharth (Aseem) and Priyanka set in Dalhousie. The plot borrows liberally every possible Bollywood cliche over the ages. The long-haired hero chops wood to make violins. Romance is the furthest from his mind. His pal proclaims stuff like that there will only be wood in your hands, never ever a pretty girl ¦ till he sees Anjali (Priyanka) emerging out of the water. Cupid's arrow strikes faster than that axe in Siddharth's hand

We have learnt to live with Bollywood’s creative constipation, but now we must also get used to Bollywood not just picking up vile Hollywood scripts that resulted in vile Hollywood films, but also adding their two bits to make it a full-on vile-fest. In 2004, Nick Cassavetes took Nicholas Sparks’ novel, The Notebook, and turned it into a film because, apparently, “behind every great love is a great story” and it needs retelling.