From NY Times:
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Bachna Ae Haseeno
August 16, 2008
Love in Transition
By RACHEL SALTZ
Published: August 16, 2008
His first film, the brazenly artificial “Saawariya” — a kind of Bollywood “One From the Heart” — was a box-office flop and undeservedly panned. But it didn’t hurt Ranbir Kapoor’s career. He’s a star, and he carries “Bachna Ae Haseeno,” his second movie, playing Raj, a Don Juan who woos three lovelies: the innocent Mahi (Minissha Lamba), the ambitious sexpot Radhika (Bipasha Basu) and the self-possessed Gayatri (Deepika Padukone).

An amiable romantic comedy with fatal attractions to primary colors, glorious scenery (locations include Switzerland, Italy, Australia and even India) and 360-degree pans, “Bachna” starts too cute. But it grows more serious and interesting as it contemplates the various permutations of romance in a culture with rapidly changing sexual mores. Does Radhika lose Raj because they have sex before marriage? Can Gayatri have a career, a love life and some kind of freedom?

Mr. Kapoor doesn’t fully convince as a cad. He comes into his own, though, in the remorse and redemption sequences. Blame it on his puppy-dog sweetness, a quality that will serve him well as a Bollywood leading man. And Ms. Basu helps, contributing some believably bad comic behavior when Radhika becomes a pampered, ill-tempered movie star.

About that excellent title tune, with its chugging, catchy horn riff: it conjures some groovy bell-bottoms thriller, and no wonder. It’s a retooled version of a song from the 1977 film “Hum Kisise Kum Naheen,” composed by R. D. Burman, a powerhouse who wrote more than his fair share of Bollywood’s best music. That movie’s star? Rishi Kapoor, Ranbir’s dad.

BACHNA AE HASEENO

Opened on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Siddharth Raj Anand; written (in Hindi, with English subtitles) by Devika Bhagat, based on a story by Aditya Chopra; director of photography, Sunil Patel; edited by Ritesh Soni; production designer, Sharmishta Roy; produced by Aditya Chopra; released by Yash Raj Films. Running time: 2 hours 35 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Ranbir Kapoor (Raj), Bipasha Basu (Radhika), Deepika Padukone (Gayatri) and Minissha Lamba (Mahi).

NYT sathiya gaya! sab hunky dorry good lol

Saw it on Tuesday. Theatre was pretty full. I assume audiences like it but to me, first half was all nonsense. Second half made up, more than enough, for the first half nonsense. Bipasha Basu stole the show. Bipasha song/ dances were rocking.
I didn't like the ending though.

Some surround sound was present. Bass was good.
Film length was about 133 min.
End credits showed DTS and DD logos.

Last few Indian films that I saw in theatre, there is no CC in the beginning. Of course, India censored print is not appropriate but does it mean overseas version any different than Indian censored version ??

(CC does indicate film length in meters and hence the original theatrical run time, though)

The film is a farce but a very lovable one -- the ending is farfetched but that's what we all wanted

wasn't that paintal's son -- ranbir's friend in the movie?

Yep:



Hiten Paintal