And you were expecting a hackneyed love story.
Here's news. Tum Bin will surpass your expectations.
A film revolving around a girl and three men who enter her life, Tum Bin is a good first attempt. Only, it's very evident it's a first attempt.
The beginning -- a hit and run accident. Shekhar Malhotra (Priyanshu Chatterjee), a corporate whiz, kills Amar Shah (Rakesh Bapat), an industrialist from Canada.
Amar was to get married in a week. Unable to live with the guilt and haunted by Amar's fianc�e Pia's (Sandali Sinha) poem (which she recites to Shekhar mistaking him for Amar), Shekhar decides to go to Canada to meet Amar's family.
Only sto find an old father numb with grief, a sister who misses her brother and Pia, who is struggling to save the sinking Shah industry.Predictably, Shekhar manages to get through Pia's prickly defenses, solves math puzzles for Amar's younger sister, wins over Amar's father, grandmother and Pia's best friend. He even manages to weave his magic wand and turn the company around.
There is another twist in the tale -- Abhigyan (Himanshu Malik), a suave business tycoon, who falls in love with Pia at first sight.
That's the first half. Which holds your attention. Especially notable are the scenes which show Shekhar celebrating Diwali alone and his conversations with his friend that portray a man in conflict trying to do the right thing.
Shekhar's attempts to help Pia and his relationship with Amar's sister are fairly well etched, despite some clich�d dialogues and screenplay. His servile attitude in trying to worm his way into letting her work with him, for example. His managing to get a contract within a few hours is rather implausible. The scene when he gifts Pia a hat and asks her to keep smiling is overdone.
The second half disappoints. Unable to tell Pia that he loves her, Shekhar tries at playing martyr. Realising that Abhigyan loves Pia and would be a perfect match, Shekhar tries to make way.
What's interesting here is the way director Anubhav Sinha portrays Shekhar physically moving out of Abhigyan's path or even the scene when Abhigyan realises that Shekhar is also in love with Pia.Himanshu Malik as Abhigyan fails to convey the required conflict and the third angle in Pia's life. Wooden and stiff in parts, his longwinded and supposedly romantic dialogues fall flat. Continously repeating some mumbo jumbo about a ring, fingers and murmuring Pia's name like a parrot, Abhigyan seems more loony than moony.
His movements are very exaggerated and seem like an extension of his modelling and music video experience.
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