Movie Review: Cocktail (2012) **** Rating

COCKTAIL ∞ Fresh Blend of Love & Friendship ∞

Theatre Release: 13 July 2012 (India)
Language: Hindi
Direction: Homi Adajania 
Label: Illuminati Films  & Eros International
Genre: Romance & Humour
Viewers Group: 15+ (Majorly Metro Audience)

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AVA Score:                           : 8.70 (Max 10)
AVA Medal Honor™©       : Gold
Recommendation Level   : High (Read Review)

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A little sweet, salty and a bit spicy, this cocktail taste great with a balanced and perfect blend of flavors of love & friendship. This one is baked fresh right from the desi factory with the ingredients of fresh music, great lyrics, excellent screenplay and great cinematography.

Cocktail is colorful and its story revolves majorly around three characters viz. Veronica – a bindaas metropolitan girl with ‘f##k the world attitude’ who loves and lives her life in her own way; Meera – an introvert, traditional Indian girl who has left India to be with her husband who is living & working in London and Gautam Kapoor- A devil flirt with ‘F##k any girl onway attitude’ who lives his life king size with no idea of difference between love, flirt & friendship. All three characters met coincidently and start living together which took their friendship to a different dimension of confusions and emotions. The treatment of these emotions with a topping of timely humour is what makes Cocktail a really watchable and entertaining love story

Homi Adajania has played his second shot after ‘Being Cyrus’ and hit a six. Cocktail is genuinely a multiplex movie and basically targeted at the metro audience and Homi Adajania has felt the pulse right. From the opening scene of the movie where Saif ali khan was flirting with Air hostess to the climax of the movie everything has been taken care of perfectly without being loose anywhere in the script, no doubt the credit also goes to Imitiaz Ali and Sajid Ali for the story and screenplay. What is important here is if someone narrates the story it sounds simple and old but it’s the treatment of the subject including the performances of the main leads, Music & Lyrics (Pritam & Irshad Kamil) and cinematography (Anil Mehta) which has brought  a complete fresh look and flavor  of the movie.

Performances?

 Well Deepika Padukone as Veronica has given her one of the best performances and emerged as one of the strongest contender for Best actress award this year and maybe she win it too. She has given the flawless performance as a bindaas metro girl or as she says herself a rich bit#h but you would love the way  she is. Diana Penty as Meera has made an outstanding debut and will take you away with her charm and sweet persona.Saif Ali Khan as Gautam kapoor fits perfect in his Casanova avatar thou his age factor is a minus factor for this movie.

 There are few scenes worth mentioning here

      a)      In a scene where veronica confess her love for  Gautam to Meera, Deepika Padukone truly 

         stands out

b)      In a scene where Gautam tries to make Meera happy by flirting her in cape town is memorable

c)       In  a scene when Gautam’s mother visited Veronica house and Saif Ali khan was dancing with the weird makeup is hugely entertaining

Cocktail definitely tries to touch upon thou not an solution to the  mental state of a man in the society  where he expect his girlfriend like Veronica and Wife like Meera despite taking into the fact into consideration that both are women with heart and emotions. The Line between friendship and love is very thin amongst opposite genders and that where lies the source of complexity of relationship. Cocktail maintained desi cinema status despite being international in treatment but with grace; truly as it name it tries to serve a blend of various flavors  being friendship as its core drink…Enjoy this daru desi J

        

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