Hansal Mehta's film is a curious mix of failures, not only of all the characters in the film but his own in making such a colossal mess. The film's title sets up an expectation of a light comedy and certainly the film starts out that way.

Ram Saran is a simpleton, a village boy who has come to the big bad city to better his life, to make something of himself. He is a motor mechanic and encounters a journalist Kaamya at the garage. His simplicity and honesty makes an impression on her and she starts to write about him. He mistakes this for much more than just friendship and stars shine in his eyes about his life with Kaamya. The mechanics break out into song and dance and you begin to imagine that this will be a lightweight comedy of sorts, the village simpleton with the slick city girl. But, for those who have not given enough credence to our heroine's cigarette smoking, are in for a shock. I say this simply because no heroine can be a smoker and be a "good " virginal heroine.

Only vamps smoke and here, true to form, we are shown an opportunistic and manipulative character who has an agenda of her own. And how best to show her independence? Put a cigarette in her mouth and there you are. No need for a prop or dialogue to prove that Kaamya is a hard nosed and tough character. So when Ram Saran is sacked from his job, he turns to Kaamya for comfort, which she is willing to provide but to an extent. When, in his drunken, distressed and unwashed state, he blurts out his love for her, she rebuffs him (who wouldn't?). And why shouldn't she? He is a lowly, smelly and dirty mechanic whereas she is a trendy and very much a girl for today. Ram Saran sees this as a betrayal, and therein begins his descent into a black and hellish existence, sucked as he is into the underworld. The film then travels a dark and disturbing path into the life that Ram Saran decides to adopt and its repercussions.

Hansal Mehta's film is a complete disaster because it starts out as something and ends up like something else. Is it possible to merge two different genres into one and make a success of it. Well, even if you can, Mehta does not succeed at all with this effort. Its almost as if Mehta did not know which way to head. And it fails to be convincing on any level. Tabu has said that it is a black comedy. Well, it is certainly black and also comedic initially, but it certainly is not a black comedy. There is absolutely no reason why Kaamya should be astonished, surprised or even interested in Ram Saran merely because of his obvious simplicity. This is the premise for the film and it is utterly unconvincing. Perhaps the director is trying to say that in a world corrupted by materialism and immorality, it is rare to find people who have a sense of honesty and decency but if that is the case, it is a very laboured point. And even if you are minded to accept this, the director then destroys the very fabric of his film but showing his protagonist as adopting the very ways that set him apart from everyone. Ram Saran's reasons for this descent into hell are equally unconvincing and it is too much for the viewer to have to accept that this was on account of Kaamya's "betrayal" or for reasons of making money so that he can prove himself to her. Money was never the criterion and although Mehta's desperate characters are opportunists, wanting to make a quick buck at the expense of anything, even being involved in murder, it was never the driving force for Ram Saran.

At one point, you feel that perhaps this was only a film within a film, when Kaamya is seen as getting an award for her script of the life of Ram Saran, as if she has scripted his life to go a certain way, thereby conning the audience into believing that what was real was in fact not. Sadly, even this cannot be used as an excuse for this film. To give the director credit, there is a stark quality about the film, and he captures the essence of all the side characters extremely well…but they were meant for a different film, not this one.

What starts out as somewhat an upbeat musical ends up as a dark, sad indictment of the director's vision of life today. Manoj Bajpai as Ram Saran is well cast. He looks the part and performs well. However, he simply does not have the personality to carry a film on his own. Tabu, in a role which would be considered to be negative, is very believable, very real. Music by Vishal is good but misplaced.

As I said earlier, one of the biggest drawbacks of this film is its title. It promises something and delivers something else….It may have been fine if what it offered was something worth accepting but its not. This is a mess of gargantuan proportions with little to offer. I wish Ram Saran had gone back to his village straight after he had been sacked.