Cheeni Kum – Could have been a really sweet film! Had the lady been 50 Plus in the film – played by may be Dimple Kapadia or Revathi – then the falling in love at an old age could have been made to present rather sweetly!In the film Tabu is 34 and Amitabh is 65! Yuk! It was a rather paedophilic approach! Amitabh was even shown to be older than her father...which meant that Tabu was kinda game with her father's contemporaries also! That means Tabu's father's friends – whom she must have been addressing as uncles...were not really safe in her presence...anytime she could have seduced them in the charms of her youthful body! No wonder why aged ladies are so unconfident to leave their husbands in presence of young girls....the aged males are not at all safe with such girls! Now had the film shown someone like Hema Malini or Dimple Kapadia – as some 50 plus lady – maybe a widow or a divorcée or even a spinster – then the film could have been really really sweet! Every soul has the right to love and express love and share their life with a good eligible companion! This psychology of Bollywood directors and producers is very understandable though! They are having more than thousands of young girls (belonging to crass and greedy pig families) ready to undress and even dive on bed with any old dilapidated male structure – just to earn a role in their film – so the aged film directors try to market the ecstasy of having someone as young as the grand daughter as your sex-partner. But this is India ...we, the people, are real tough nuts who are not very easily convinced...thus they have to come up with such concepts where basically they are trying to tell common women that aged common males like to beep with younger females so they should better not interfere in their affairs and just let them be – not to nag and bicker! Also sometimes the bolly bullies go through pangs of guilt – since they are having a good time with younger females whereas their contemporaries are left with the same old and haggard wife to spend the entire life with! Thus the Bolly bullies give them ideas and dreams that they too may get young females at ripe old age to jump on bed with!......with this dream the 'meagre brained' debauch old males get beaten in parks and allies for eve-teasing when they try to approach a lady half their age!

For some reasons, Amitabh played a role where he falls for younger girls, it started with KANK, then NISHABD and then Cheeni Kum. while in Nishabd there was more of late Jiah Khan's legs here this is a more mature love story. The film starts off well, Amitabh's character is well established, the hotel scenes are funny also the romance blossoms well but some scenes are sort of too slapstick like the condom scene but yet the film is well handled. The second half starts well but the entire fast part seems odd but the emotional scenes and last 10 minutes are awesomeDirection by R Balki is good Music is decent though Illayaraja used most of his tamil, kannada songsAmitabh is a natural and handles his role perfectly, he is simply awesome Tabu compliments him beautifully and adds realism to the part Paresh Rawal is fantastic in a clichéd role Zohra Sehgal is a delight, the lady was 94 when the film released but her energy is simply awesome, Swini Kara is delightful too rest are adequate

Cheeni Kum looks like it will be interesting. An Amitabh Bachchan, fresh from the failure of Nishabd, and Tabu, still reeling from the success of the Namesake.However the film does not deliver. A grownup romantic comedy, that is not grownup, romantic or a comedy. A sorry excuse for what could have been a good movie.There is a lack of chemistry between the two leads. Why an intelligent woman would fall for an old cynical and expressionless man is never explained.Supporting characters of the mother (Zohra Sehgal), a precocious young girl ("Sexy"!!?), Shalini and the staff at the restaurant are easily summarized in two words: Annoying and Unnecessary.Tabu was good in her role, as was Paresh Rawal. However, Amitabh Bachchan is a let down as usual.The movies swings from high melodrama to plain boring. Not something that I would recommend, though it does come with a disclaimer: Cheeni Kum.

I watched this immediately after jhoom barabar jhoom, and was very glad I did. JBJ was an AWFUL pile of bakvaas, and Amitabh's appearances in that movie were pointless and embarrassing (why was he trying to look like Stevie Ray Vaughan?) Cheeni kum was a very good movie. A little slower than it could have been, and maybe Amitabh's character was a little bit TOO "cheeni kum", but overall it was an intelligent and well put together film. There were several things not done as well as they could have been, including the shameful underutilization of Paresh Rawal, but overall this was a good try. It was certainly one of Amitabh's better roles of the last couple of years. Zohra was outstanding as was Swini Kehra, and the film examined the central issue well. Almost as well as the outstanding Dil Chahta Hai. After KJo cr*p like KANK, SLB's bloated rubbish (Black, Devdas) and the David Dhawan conveyor belt of pathetically unfunny "comedies", films like Cheeni Kum restore my faith in Hindi cinema. The central jodi was very plausible, and Tabu's character gave as good as she got, except for the scene at the restaurant with the fish (where her capitulation seemed out of character). I just wish that was at least one Cheeni Kum for every Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. Plus I want to see more of Zohra before she leaves us, and more of the excellent Swini.