samay : when time strikes was the movie starring ajay devgan preity zinta and madhuri dixit.
ajay devgan preity zinta and madhuri dixit movie?
samay : when time strikes
in 2001, dixit starred in deepak shivdasani's love triangle "yeh raaste hain pyaar ke" opposite ajay devgan and preity zinta. subsequently, dixit reunited with rajkumar santoshi for the social drama "lajja" (2001). dealing with the issue of gender inequality, dixit played janki, a theatre actress who gets pre-maritally pregnant. anita bora of rediff.com wrote: "madhuri slips into her role as janaki..with consummate ease..and..dazzles us with a class act." the film was a box-office failure in india but was an overseas success and fetched dixit a filmfare award for best supporting actress nomination. dixit's first release of 2002 was the love triangle "hum tumhare hain sanam" opposite shahrukh khan and salman khan, where she played radha whose married life blemishes when she gets obsessed with the career of her friend. a remake of director k. s. adhiyaman's own tamil film "thotta chinungi" (1995), the film took six years in making, with huge sabbaticals in between shoots due to several production problems. the film emerged successful at the indian box office. few critics noted that the delay made the film look outdated.
madhuri dixit
raja sen for rediff.com has given 1/5 stars and says "ishkq in paris" is a bad film brought further down by a bunch of bollywood cliches and a fading preity zinta, which is the same rating given by mayank shekhar in the "daily bhaskar", who goes on to call the lead characters "uninteresting" and lament the state of preity zinta's career. strangely enough, shekhar incorrectly claims that zinta plays two roles in the film, that of ishkq and ishkq's mother. "in.com" gave the film a poor review too, criticizing the weak screenplay and preity's performance. in a special "twitter review" for "ibn", shomini sen deemed that though "preity zinta tries hard [...], except for some amazing shots of paris [the film] has nothing much to offer.", while in another, more traditional review, rajeev masand called the film "misguided" and "overwrought", in addition to finding rhehan malliek "as expressive as a slab of granite". in "koimoi", mohar basu gave the film 2/5 stars, praising the editing but criticizing the screenplay and the lack of chemistry between the leads. while "india tv news" felt that preity zinta's screen presence is the only reason to watch the film despite the "decent" cinematography and "crisp" editing, as rhehan malliek is "unconvincing" and the music "unmemorable". teena elizabeth chacko, writing in "book my show", found the cinematography "excellent" as well as the narration by isabelle adjani, deemed the performances by zinta and malliek to be decent and the music average, but found fault with the multitude of clichés, the cheesy dialogues and the numerous illogical moments, giving the film 1.5/5 stars and stating that one could "definitely afford to miss it", while in "the indian express", shubhra gupta gave it 2/5 stars, lamenting that it was filled with "all the clichés that you can think of". "glam sham"'s enkayaar criticized the screenplay, as did shubha shetty-saha in "mid day", who went on to call adjani "wasted", malliek "flat" and felt that preity zinta looked desperate to recapture her lost success, deeming the film "disappointing". in the "hindustan times", sarit ray thought the film felt dated though he did enjoy the cinematography and in "the hindu", sudhish kamath gave the film one of its worst reviews, calling the writing "weak" and the actors "awful", warning potential viewers that going to see the film might leave them "feeling suicidal". for the "mumbai mirror", karan anshuman thought the movie was "without heart", the actors had no chemistry and felt sorry for the state of preity zinta's career, encouraging her to "be bold" and "change the act", similarly in "daily news and analysis", tushar joshi felt that the actress seemed "in a constant need for approval", advising only her die-hard fans to go watch the film. the "deccan herald", shilpa jamkhandikar called the film "mediocre", a "farce of a film" and preity zinta "a shadow of her past [self]", while khalid mohamed wrote in the "deccan chronicle" that the screenplay was "thinner than crepe". for "first post", deepanjana pal deemed the film completely illogical, in "business of cinema", udita jhunjhunwala claimed that despite its short runtime ""ishkq in paris" feels like a nine-hour flight, with jet lag" and "box office india" thought the cinematography was "outstanding", zinta's performance was "noteworthy" and the background music "superb", but concluded that director prem raj "impresses a little but disappoints a lot", predicting a flop. for "the new indian express", nandini krishnan called preity zinta "irritating" and the film "an insult to cinema, paris, love and isabelle adjani" and in the pakistani "the friday times", nandini krishnan was "appalled" by the film, calling it "disastrous" and making fun of "the almost 40-year-old zinta [...] trying to pass off as the still-beautiful adjani's daughter", saying it "gave [her her] first laugh of the film". similarly in "outlook", namrata joshi was saddened by zinta's plastic surgery-altered looks, thought she lacked chemistry with her co-star and called the narration tedious.
ishkq in paris