leku leku Honestly, Break ke baad could have been a great movie.....but content-wise the movie fails miserably. Poor performance by the leads - Deepika Padukone and Imran Khan adds to your nerves....esp Imran's underacting and lack of emotions.Positives of the movie - Stylishly shot - Some of the locales are really nice....but it just feels wasted in a bad movie.Good production values - The movie has been shot really well. Every frame is neat and looks-wise every scene feels complete.Hard as I may try......there is nothing else positive in the movie.Negatives of the movie - Pathetic performance - The leads supposedly have been together for 10 years....but when they break up OR get back together OR meet each other as friends OR learn that the other one is getting married........there are absolutely no emotions on their faces.....which actually adds to the confusion in the story! When Aaliya and Abhay talk to each other...you really don't know whether they are talking as friends, or trying to get back together...or are they lovers again. Imran Khan needs to get rid of his smile....he seems to be smiling even in sad scenes!Poor character development - Aaliya is supposedly a bitter person....because of her divorced parents (calls her mom by name)....but I just don't see why she is such a selfish bi_tch....even to the guy who has been so nice to her (Abhay). She suddenly takes off to Australia for MassComm....pray why not tell the guy you even sleep with about your plans to take up the course?? It's really not clear why they 'go on a break' or break up. One year is no big deal to be apart....why can't they wait or try long-distance? No reason, again, why she decides that they shouldn't even talk over the phone during their 'break'?? There is one scene (which makes Abhay rush to Aus) where she drinks so hard in a party that she wakes up the next day. During her drinking binge, she fights with Abhay and throws the phone and walk away. Next when Abahy calls, another guy picks up the phone and says that "He's in queue". Abhay panics and arrives at Aus. Seeing him, Aaliya breaks up, calling him "insecure" Honestly...if you are drinking with a few guys madly and a dude answers the phone and tells "you are in queue"....wouldn't that be a reason to panic???? Aaliya wakes up in the morning after her drinking binge in the party next to a guy and she wonders if she had sex with him...and starts beating him....her boyfriend joins in (surprise!)....and there is no surprise in Aaliya's face....instead she calls him "insecure". Wouldn't a guy feel insecure in such a situation....or at least concerned if the "woman of his life" is safe or not??Supposedly his "insecurity" leads to a break up...and Aaliya says that she doesn't want to deal with his problems....heck lady...what is a relationship for....even if you aren't in one....wouldn't you help as a friend?? When Aaliya, after graduation, gets a movie deal...everyone is disappointed.....so much so....that she quits the role and heads back to India. Frankly...can't people make amends and continue with her movie? Afterall....that's what she studied abroad for!Overall...Aaliya comes across as a very selfish person. I am far from the notion that heroines should be "perfect"....but in the end....they should realise their mistakes....even if they don't become perfect afterwards. Aaliya treats love like dirt....even after she makes amends with her mother and realises that "People don't love her because she's special, but she's special because people love her"....I see no reason why she doesn't try to get back together with her sweetheart with whom, she's been together for 10 years.Abhay underplays his role to an extent....that it hardly seems like a character. Matter of fact....he seems like a defective person...who can't feel pain, sadness, anger, determination. His love for Aaliya is so strong that he still wants her back when she dumps him, declares that she doesn't want to deal with his issues, etc. Great going, doormat!Disjointed script - The script just seems like a collage project where different scenes were stuck together with Fevicol. At one shot Abhay & Aaliya are buddies deeply in love. Next scene...she's in a flight to Australia. Suddenly Abhay is in Australia. Aaliya rarely is seen attending classes....suddenly she's graduating....then suddenly Aaliya's mom is in Australia....suddenly she's back home....suddenly Aaliya's back home after advice from mom.......suddenly Aaliya's back in Australia after mom suddenly feels that "Aaliya's much stronger than me"......suddenly Imran is heading home.......and suddenly he decides to marry......and suddenly Aaliya's back home. There seem to be no lead for the action. The director has wasted space showing "how deeply Aaliya and Abhay are in love", he could have given space for scenes that leads upto the actions of main characters. At no point is it clear if Aaliya and Abhay are talking as friends or lovers or ex-lovers.Senseless actions of Abhay and Aaliya - The film is break ke baad....but at no point does the break or break up feel justified...nor there seems to be any desperation for them to get back together. I frankly just don't understand that why they just don't try to work on their decade old relationship!!There seems to be nothing between Abhay and Aaliya that suggests that they've known each other for 10 yrs. They literally are like strangers!!So let me give a final score - Story - 5/10 Screenplay - 2/10 Performance - 3/10 Direction - 5/10 Music - 6/10 (feels good with movie...but nothing memorable) Visual - 10/10I do believe that the director is talented...but his first product is pretty amateurish.....it's too Americanised and frankly....10-year-old relationships don't end 'just like that'.....overall....I'd give the movie 4/10

pradeepkrlko When the movie started, I thought its gonna be a different story. But gradually it disappointed a lot. The story can be narrated in one line, its so simple and boring..it is a repeated story in Hindi movies. It was unbearable at most of the time. Imran has worked nicely according to his role, whenever he has appeared on the screen I felt relief. Shahana and Yudhisthir has done a good job too, both of them have done justification with their roles. Deepika should stop overacting, she is carrying the similar kind of acting in all of her movies.I am giving 3 out of 10, for Imran, Shahan and Yudhisthir.I recommend not to watch it.

Shashiishere The problem with this movie is the same which has been plaguing the so called romantic comedies in Bollywood recently- that it tries too hard to look fresh and cool and to the tune of the times.It necessarily is just about two people who are in a long relationship since childhood with just marriage left on the cards when suddenly the female realizes she wants her space. Fair enough.But the guy doesn't want to leave her for anything in the world.As per the movie modern males are insecure, too sweet, too nagging,have no real goals or ambitions and find cooking better suited than most other jobs in the world! not really.Then there is the alpha female who wants her space, ambitious, risk taking, smokes in front of all elders in a wedding, basically wants to do whatever she fees like at any cost.Hmmm again little far fetched. Probably we would have more connected with the characters if the débutant director would have spent little more time in the character building than the unconvincing fights, quarrels and the break up which basically doesn't happen in the movie! in spite of repeated attempts by the characters.The plot is thin, the climax is as predictable as it can get and though timed at a little under 2 hrs the movie gets so repetitive in the middle that when a character shouts Khatam kar dalo isko, about an hour into the movie we echo the same feelings.Having said that, all is not bad. The biggest pus point of the movie is the music very hummable by Vishal Shekar,the witty dialogues which are the only cool things and the acting by the 2 leads Imran and Deepika who try to infuse some life into otherwise illogical characters.Break ke baad doesn't really engage the viewer from the beginning to the end.If you want to see a modern bitter sweet break up story we still recommend Imtiaz Ali's Love aaj kal.

rakesh putta I just saw the movie in theater, it didn't took much time to realize I'm wasting my time. The movie was really boring, i think director doesn't really know how to present the story, even though the story is old and it's already shown in many films. The dialogues between the lead pair are also old Hindi filmy dialogues, the dialogues pattern is same as "I HATE LOVE STORIES" movie. I think it would be better if we don't talk about screenplay. The cinematography and music are OK but they didn't add any good to the movie. Watching in theater is a waste of time and money. If you really want to watch, it's better to wait for DVD release.