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EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: ***
Just when you think you`ve seen them all, from the hit jodis to the split jodis
comes Jodi Breakers…. A jodi-daar pair, Madhavan and Bipasha Basu
set up a business of splitting couples…until they end up splitting the wrong
couple.That`s when all hell breaks loose.
Interestingly the wronged couple is played by two model-turned-actors Milind
Soman and Dipannati Sharma who are a class act, together and apart.Dipannati
specially, whom we saw some time ago in a chic avatar in Ladies versus
Ricky Behl, makes you wonder why some ladies get left behind in the rat
race.
Or why any man would be stupid enough to leave a wife like Ms. Sharma. That`s
the thought which holds the shaky screenplay of Jodi Breakers
together - that we often end up giving ourselves a wrong deal in the bid for
love.
The concept of a pair falling in love as they go about breaking couples is
interesting enough to hold a two-hour long rom-com together. Lamentably, the
episodes showing a pile-up of desperately-estranged couples seeking to find an
escape from marriage are hardly as amusing as one would expect them to be, given
the situation.
At various places, the screenplay simply slithers to a standstill waiting for
the writer`s next brainwave. Until then, there`s always the song break.The music
is all of the safe variety, expansive ballads, a sexy item song…download-able
waste.
Madhavan and Bipasha Basu`s screen presence goes a long way in covering up the
film`s frail passages. They seem to vibe well together and bring a kind of
shared empathy to the proceedings that seems to suggest there`s much more going
on here than meets the eye.Madhavan in two dramatic key sequences holds the
camera like a lover. Rest is brat-boy-fun-time stuff.
This could have been the perfect rom-com about an imperfect couple trying to
make money out of broken-down relationships. Sadly, director Ashwini Choudhary
fails to go the whole hog. Somewhere down the line the characters stop thinking
and begin shrinking. They go through motions that are written for them.
And not very convincing motions at that.
If the film works at all it`s because Madhavan and Bipasha make a cute couple
and try to extract the maximum enjoyment from their under-written
smart-on-top-shaky-at-the-bottom characters. Besides them you really won`t find
too many side-splitting moments in this film about jodi-splittng.