Two of the hottest actors in cast, excellent cinematography, Vishal- Shekhar's career best tunes and superb acting by the leads, all fall flat and reduce to dust in this nightmare called Anjaana Anjaani.Starting with what is good. Standing ovation and hands down, Ravi K Chandran! He is the master. Filming three beautiful cities of the States – Las Vegas, New York and San Francisco and depicting their cultural hues is a difficult task that the ace cinematographer achieves with distinction. The cinematography of the film is of postcard quality. Everything from the lighting, to movement and focus is perfect. Chandran's efforts should have paid him the Filmfare Award. The film has an international feel to it all thanks to Chandran.Vishal-Shekhar give their career best score. If I Hate Luv Storys was good, Musafir was very good, Zinda was excellent, then Anjaana Anjaani is phenomenal. Known for their creativity and homages to yester year composers (remember Jhankaar Beats and Taxi No. 9211), Vishal-Shekhar compose songs that are addictive and of superior quality. They must have, for sure, put a lot of efforts in Anjaana Anjaani. It is one of those rare albums where each song carries a different feel even if they are all related by the same signature style.Salim-Sulaiman also compose a winning, heat-warming and electrifying background score. The opening scene itself proves that. The film is technically slick and editing is also good. Priyanka Chopra makes her sketchy Kiara believable. Look at her breakdown in the car, or blabber continuously after drinking or tickle your funny bone, you come to know she is a performer of substance. Ranbir Kapoor matched Chopra at every step. He too emotes well, can make you laugh and silently suffer. Though these are not exceptional performances, they help a lot in keeping the film intact.For these four good things, the film gets four stars. Everything else is bad! The screenplay is outright illogical. I fail to see any point the film tried to convey. Their suicidal attempts, their last wishes and the situations they fall into were atrocious and inane rather than humorous as the writer must have meant it to be. The end was firm and certain since the start. Director Siddharth Anand (Salaam Namaste, Bachna Ae Haseeno) has given half-baked films in the past and same repeats. What could have been a fresh take on romance seemed to be a nightmare. Who cares if the songs are marvelous if they pop up without any situations favoring them? The second half has more runtime for songs than for the story. Priyanka recovers during a song; they travel to Vegas in a song, have fun there in another song and return from Vegas in yet another song. Soon after they get back to their regular lives, there is one more song. Song after song, the film was irritating. If the songs are removed, the film would have culminated minutes after the interval itself. The first hour is no better. With some mundane dialogues and uncanny situations, Chopra and Kapoor suffer from the burden to make the film better. And they succeed.What actually prompted me to write this review was to praise the really good things in the film. Otherwise I suggest this film called "Stranger, Stranger" rightly remain a stranger.

I actually wanted to give this a 3 rating but found that it would be a bit too cruel. It's not that the movie is terrible, it's just that there is nothing interesting about the plot, or the two main characters. I often found myself losing concentration and looking out of the window.For me this has to be the weakest Indian movie I've seen this year, but that's not much comfort as I'm sure another will soon take its place. What I can't believe is the way the plot develops. Two people, highly narcissistic and self absorbent decide to kill themselves, find that they can't even do that deed in a sensible way and then make a joint pact to finish the deed in 20 days time once they've enjoyed life to the fullest and done fulfilling their wishes and desires (Ranbir's desire is really quite pathetic).The most amazing thing, in the first 5 minutes, is one of Ranbir's character's suicide attempts. He walks in front of a speeding car, gets hit and subsequently wakes up in a hospital bed with a bandage around his head and a fake bloodstain on it. I wish real life was like that- more people would walk away unharmed from car accidents. Maybe Ranbir is made of the same stuff that Wolverine is. Another is the ability of Priyanka to afford such an amazing place and to have money to spend from her wages of her short lived career as a barista.Acting wise, there is nothing special to either of them. Ranbir goes around with a scowl on his face most of the time and deadpans his lines. Priyanka, for someone who's suicidal, is quite happy and bubbly throughout the movie, which is contrary to that of a depressed suicidal person. Neither of them have an interesting storyline and neither of their desire to kill themselves is really justifiable. Both also don't share much of a chemistry as an on screen couple.If you want to fall asleep quickly watch this movie. Otherwise don't waste your time on this boring, pointless movie that takes you nowhere and leaves you highly unsatisfied. Better to watch slow movie traffic during rush hour.

Anjaana anjaani is one movie i would recommend people to see , i am few of those who seldomly watch Hindi titles , but this one had one of the greatest songs on air. The actors priyanka chopra and ranbir kapoor have played their best roles as yet in the movie. Priyanka of course has evolved as a great actor which is evident from the movie. For people not so found of romantic kinda stuff will find all its song to be perfect. Even though some say its similar to this movie and that, i still think it had a good plot, and even if copied from Hollywood i wouldn't complain, cos its all embedded in our culture.Must watch if you watch like 5 Hindi movies a year , you now know what i mean

All lovers start off as strangers first, before an affirmation as friends, then the bridge to be crossed to become lovers, and if the speedbumps along the way prove too much for the couple to handle, then that relationship will get relegated to friendship, before time takes over for memories to fade and they become strangers again. Director Siddharth Anand's Anjaana Anjaani takes on this cyclic tale as far as modern romances go, and while the premise is as sexy as its two leads, unfortunately it's the meandering, average storyline that ultimately trips up the film, no matter the powerhouse performances by Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.It started off promising though, as the narrative takes its time to set up the backgrounds and stories behind how Ranbir's Akash and Priyanka's Kiara met on a bridge while both are contemplating suicide, with the former being a hotshot investor whose bad call at the markets translated to bankruptcy for him and his partners, while the latter in a drunken stupor, had hers kept under wraps and told in flashbacks as the story wore on. For an audience, you get set up to feel that you too have partaken in this getting-to-know-you phase by director Siddharth Anand, and get acquainted with the leads just as their characters begin on a journey, and an incredible one at that since they've moved in together, and set a date on which to execute themselves, but not before spending time crossing out an impromptu bucket list.For instance, the first half dwells specifically on the adventures of these two doing quite the incredible for comedy, with most times leaving you wonder just how they get the cash to do what they do. But this is a fantasy film, so anything goes with nary a worry, which for two persons hell bent on killing themselves, splurging cash shouldn't be an issue at all since they can't bring their savings bank along to their graves. For Akash, his dream is to get laid, well sort of, since he's that romantic dreamer whose career had meant little chance and time to chase skirts. This of course sets off some alarm bells with audiences when there's Ms Kiara standing in front of him to pursue, but it's this slow burning discovery that true love may be in front of him after all, that forms the theme after the interval.Meanwhile, Kiara's bucket list consists of swimming in the middle of the Atlantic. How they get there is one thing, but they do, and this episode sowed the seeds of a budding romance leading well into the second half of the film, where the story falls back on the tried and tested formula of a romantic comedy, with the couple not knowing what to do since they've made a pact to end their lives, yet see within each other a rainbow at the end of their personal stormy issues. You can almost sleepwalk through the entire film after the break, as it breaks out the formula to turn whatever's refreshing, and like a genie decided to put it all back in the bottle.Watching two former Miss Worlds in separate movies from two of the largest film industries in India, can somewhat be distracting as well as surreal. But Priyanka Chopra came out tops in this tussle, in my opinion, since Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's role in Enthiran was somewhat whiny in behaviour to my liking. Chopra on the other hand turned out to be quite the livewire in this film even though her Kiara has the most baggage to bear amongst the two lovers in Anjaana Anjaani. Infusing her role with so much sass, one cannot help but to highlight that this is one of her most memorable performance to date after last year's Fashion and What's Your Rashee, which saw her take on 12 different roles. Ranbir Kapoor feeds off Chopra's bubbling energy really well, and the two share some excellent screen chemistry together in their first pair up, that I'm wishing there will be more films in future to exploit this.If only the story was more gutsy to match both actor's stellar performances, without which Anjaana Anjaani turned out to be nothing more than an above average romantic film that gets churned out by the dozens each year.