Film: 'Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai'; Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Vishal Malhotra; Writer-Director: Milap Jhaveri; Rating: ** 1/2
They don't make'em like they used to. Those wholesome take-home-to-mama type of girls. And they don't make such innocent 'yeh-kahan-aa-gaye-hum' rom-coms either. So naturally, or not so naturally, writer-turned-director Milap Zaveri gets his heroine, the toothy, endearing, and fetching Jacqueline Fernandez to fly down to earth from Venus. One-way, business-class.
Women, we were always told, were from Venus. Now we've proof of that.
Many of the film's most likeable moments send out inoffensive echoes of Hollywood comedies about ladies from another world, like 'Splash' and 'My Girlfriend Is An Alien'. The final brew is aromatic in scent and minty in taste. The effect lasts fleetingly, though.
The situations that crop up once the alien beauty lands range from the predictable to the strained. No one in this film is in it for posterity. It's a film done with a wink and a chuckle that communicate itself to the audience effectively.
Everyone in Zaveri's film is looking for love -- Riteish Deskhmukh more so than others. Apparently love has been eluding his character since infancy. Baba's searching
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