Review of Bewafaa

Who came up with this? Why did he/she come up with this? Why did the cast (Anil and Kareena Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Akshaye Kumar, Shameta Shetty et. Al.) agree to do this? Why punish humanity with this? What did we ever do to the director and script writer of this film? Gosh! I manged to rate it two stars just because of my love for Akshaye Kumar (despite my hating him in this film) and some good songs from the film. But even the good songs are not enough to save this clunker! It deserves 0 stars otherwise! Kareena Kapoor plays a young teen growing up in Canada and who is coming of age. She has a boyfriend, Raja (played by Kumar) who is an aspiring pop singer and whom she hides from her family because her family has the impression that she is a good girl and stuff. One day, her older sister (played by Sushmita Sen) comes back home to visit with big news! She and her husband (played by Anil Kapoor) are pregnant with twins. Anjali (K.Kapoor) is ecstatic for her sister, so much so that she confides in her sister her love for her secret boyfriend. Sen's character agrees to meet with Raja and instantly she likes him and they catch up on getting to know each other during a song number. A few weeks later, Anjali goes to the airport to pick up her sister's husband and brings him to the hospital where upon reaching she finds her parents with distressed looks on their faces. The mother announces to both of them that Sushmita's character is no more (she passed away during childbirth) and naturally they are both shattered. Then the most surprising thing of all happens. Anjali is asked to marry her sister's husband, so that the twins will grow up with a mother and even more surprising, Anjali forgets about Raja and does as her parents have told her. She moves back to India with her new husband and slowly tells herself that in order for her new husband to appreciate her more, she will have to make her like her sister as much as possible, which includes; dressing like her, talking like her and in general doing everything like her. You would think with all that fluff and stuff, they would have ended the film right? Wrong. They bring Raja to India, now a star, and make him bump into Anjali and a game of cat and mouse ensues between Anjali, her husband, his friends (who are on to her game) and Raja. Then the film ends with Raja aka Indian Raja formally addressing the audience watching the film (which made me cringe to no end). Save yourself from this soap-opera and watch Sisila (the classic) instead!