I’ll begin the review of Pyar ka Panchnama with a slightly misogynistic statement. The movie should be prohibited for women. This is because if you go to this movie with a girl be sure that you’ll come out fighting.
The movie has shown the realistic situations but from the perception of a man or I must say you see the real situations from a man’s glasses. Surely the movie misses two sided opinion on the matter, but if you ask me two sided opinions are uncalled for at times. The beginning of the movie is fantabulous with Liquid’s superbly bone tickling, frustrated dialogues. The boys bonding and masti has been shown in a real cool manner. Rajat’s puking at every dhaba and commode after getting sloshed and Liquid’s shouting at every other person venting out his office frustration is highly amusing. The boys’ life is shown filled with fun, frolic and friendship until women enter their lives.
Rajo (Rajat) who is the charming lover boy starts dating a girl after meeting her at a Karaoke night. Rajat and Neha are shown as the conventional babu me – shona me couple. Rajo and Neha’s PDA and cuddling romance irks Rajat’s flatmates a little. Rajat wants to avoid it and so Rajo and Neha move into another flat together. Believe me their shifting together can run shivers down the spine of guys who are planning to move into a live-in relationship. Rajo is the one who has to wash all the dishes, clean the house, go out shopping with Neha for curtains and crockery missing the cricket matches, suffer her nagging and finally cuddle his babu. There is a little exaggeration in the presentation of this couple but is not too far away from reality either. The girlfriend in Rajo’s case has been shown as a nagging machine who at times would sulk on the things which Rajo wouldn’t even know. His pent up frustration is again vented out in a 5 min frustration speech which is extremely hilarious.
Vikrant & Riya: Here is a handsome dude and his hot-bod girlfriend who seems to be suffering with satyriasis . She is dating Chaudhary while she’s still not out of her ex-boyfriend. She has been shown to be sleeping with a number of other guys as well and finds it cool and flaunts it. At the same time the ex-boyfriend is still chasing her and sends her gifts and flowers also threatens Vikrant to leave her. He also starts stalking Vikrant. Riya goes to Varun’s (ex-boyfriend) place to pacify him when he is crying and succumbs into making out with him. Now to keep herself guilt free, she confesses this to Vikrant only to leave him in a fit of rage. This part of the story shows the changing norms of the society, as Chaudhary had accepted all of Riya’s previous sexual encounters and affairs but couldn’t accept her infidelity while she was with him. Also this part of the story shows that its' not only men who have been stereotyped as zombies, its time to take a look around and see that women do it too. Time for an egalitarian society :-)
Nishant & Charu : This is the perfect case of an office chick's exploitative tricks. Although Charu has a long-distance affair with a guy she is truly committed to. She needs a shoulder in the new town to adjust and enjoy. For this she woos a knave guy who’s not been much into girls before, Liquid. She makes him pay her beauty parlor bills, complete her office work, take her out to parties and tours. She treats Nishant like a page. The guy has been shown as an innocent puppy who follows the girl, despite of knowing that he is being exploited. The background music in which the whining of a dog can be heard in these scenes is amusing. The enlightenment dawns upon him only when Charu chides him like a cur out of her way, once her boyfriend comes back.
The story could be marked by a little degree of hyperbole but will never make you shriek out, “No it doesn’t happen!” Although the scenes when the women force to accompany men to go to Goa look a little incredible. Still the super hilarious dialogues, perfect timing of expressions make all the three actors babbar shers. The actresses have a done a great job too especially Ishita who plays Neha's part in the film. The movie has a great entertainment and information (;-) Wink) value. All in all a must watch for all the men!
