She easily steals the show from Bachchan, Khan and Mukherjee. Preity Zinta stands out as she delivers an impressively restrained performance with grace and élan. Kher is quite superb as the grounded mother and Sam's confidant. Amitabh Bachchan is incredibly irritating as Sexy Sam (though he is not as bad as Khan) but otherwise he does a fine job in a number of sequences, especially the ones with Kiron Kher. She fails to demonstrate the complexity and depth of Maya and could someone ask Rani or Johar why Maya keeps crying so much? Abhishek Bachchan tries to be funny and charming but he's not entirely convincing which, unintentionally, makes it easy to understand why Maya doesn't want him. In my opinion, this is perhaps Rani Mukherjee's worst performance to date. Dev isn't supposed to be likable nor sympathetic but the way Khan plays him is frustrating to the viewer especially with his overdone expressions and measured tone of voice. Shahrukh Khan pretty much overacts in every single one of his scenes. Not surprisingly, the background score is heavily intrusive. The overall soundtrack is far from memorable but two songs are quite beautiful: 'Tumhi Dekho Na' (artistically shot) and 'Mitwa'. Johar's direction lacks aim and focus while his script seriously lacks consistency. The last hour is so laughable because of the sheer awfulness in execution, acting and writing. Sexy Sam is quite a pathetic caricature blend of a sleazy Casanova-type old hag (who only seems to sleep with white girls that are about 40 years younger than him) and the loving father who's there for his son and whatever. Then there's Maya, who is also a strong character and yet she lets herself be treated so harshly by Dev. Rhea is supposed to be a strong woman who loves her job and family and while her quality time with family is limited, her excuse to Dev is that she's 'forced' to be the 'man' of the family? This is not the kind of thing one would hear a strong independent woman say. Much of the dialogues are the kind you would hear in soap operas. Many of the comedic sequences, especially the silly ones like 'black beast' (racist?) were cringe inducing.
Like an Expensive Melodramatic Indian Soap Opera In New York Karan Johar attempts to make a 'so-called mature' movie but the handling of the themes and the storytelling is very amateur.
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