Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar

Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar (romance)
Cast : Hazel, Ruslan Mumtaz
Direction : Robby Grewal

Guess it's been a long 'Samay', but Robby Grewal, who made a fine debut with the Sushmita Sen thriller ends up dabbling with popcorn romance this time. Nothing wrong with that. Only here, the popcorn seems to have lost its crackle and what should have been a sizzling teen affair, turns out to be soggy and listless.

The film begins well and the first half does have an innocent charm to it. Crafted as a school romance, it features a bunch of teens who take pride in tearing up the rules' book. The lingo is smart and snazzy, the boyz and girlz are familiar public school bandaas and the pranks and prattle is nostalgic. The high school romance is fine too gawky, awkward and clumsy but only in the beginning. Once the mushy notes begin and the boy decides to follow his girlfriend to Paris for their Eiffel Tower tryst, it gets downhill all the way.

The plot gets unrealistic, the drama goes out of hand. But more than all this, the bachchas (the lead pair) just can't handle all this adult drama-baazi .Time-pass fare for teens, MP3 could have been imbued with more masti and masala to make it a fun-filled desi Grease.