Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega

CAST: Anand Tiwari,Sita Spada,Vinay Pathak,Rajat Kapoor,Pitobash Tripathy

Rating: **

There is a certain pleasure that comes out of watching films set where they ought to be: Jo Dooba So Paar; Love In Bihar starts with a wonderful authentic vibe,and a sense of liberation from the faux studio-created-Bihar and Biharis that Bollywood loves to flaunt. And there’s even greater pleasure to be had from a film that sets out to cock a snookwa in just the right accent,at things not Bihari. Keshu,pronounced quite properly Kesu,for the most part,is a likely lad who loses his heart to a firangan at first sight,and the rest of it is about what happens after.

Sapna (Spada) is the gori who arrives in Kesu’s town to research Madhubani art. So naturally,Keshu proffers tip-top services in his toota-phoota angrezi : he will take Sapna by the hand,and live happily ever after. Despite the intermittent chuckles,the film never really lives up to its terrific potential: a naïve Amrikan-Desi girl,a top cop (Kapoor) who calls her a honhaar yuvati,and an embittered local thulla (Pathak). The plot is organically grown,the director knows his ground,but the sure-footedness slips when it comes to that crucial thing — story-telling.

Tiwari does a good job of repping the Bihari Boy in wannabe-torn-at-the-knees jeans who will do anything for his beloved. The gang he hangs out with is not outlined well,Spada is uneven too. So is the film,which starts well and then peters out.