COCKTAIL ∞ Fresh
Blend of Love & Friendship ∞
Language: Hindi
Direction: Homi Adajania
Label: Illuminati Films & Eros International
Genre: Romance & Humour
Viewers Group: 15+ (Majorly Metro Audience)
The Critique
Lab Score Board
AVA
Score: : 8.70
(Max 10)AVA Medal Honor™© : Gold
Recommendation Level : High (Read Review)
Reference
(Ŏ BRONZE Medal Ŏ SILVER Medal Ŏ Titanium Medal Ŏ GOLD Medal Ŏ PLATINUM Medal)
(L-Low M-Moderate H-High D-Don’t Miss it)
(Ŏ BRONZE Medal Ŏ SILVER Medal Ŏ Titanium Medal Ŏ GOLD Medal Ŏ PLATINUM Medal)
(L-Low M-Moderate H-High D-Don’t Miss it)
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?
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
Thanks &
Regards
Yours AVA
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