A married man wants his wife to love him (as he loves her) - although he married her knowing she did not – so he pretends to be the type of movie hero she prefers. The result, however, is that she ends up loving the stereotype he presents rather than the man he actually is inside.
This tale of unrequited love about a man who, essentially, wants an affair with his wife gives Shahrukh Khan the opportunity to play two roles. A challenge he rises to with some deft touches of humor and his usual energy; displaying his versatility as both an actor and as a star. His wife, played by Anushka Sharma, is a great actress in the making who should, hopefully, get better work than this. The characters remain essentially two dimensional because the screenplay does not offer enough for the two performers to do.
The other main problem with this film is that its views on love are flawed and naïve: 'There is no pain in true love'. The plotline meanders to fill out the formulaic content and length - it is funny but not nearly as philosophically profound as it would like to think it is. In its own mediocre way, this movie is about being the person you are as well as not hiding your light under a bushel. Yet, the central metaphor of dance representing the essence of sexual unions is not used as effectively as it could have been to express the very idea that marriage is a partnership. Given that this is a tired and over used metaphor, perhaps this is not very surprising.
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