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Cocktail (2012)

A coming-of-age film about young people and their world of relationships where passion clashes with emotion,love clashes with friendship,sentiments clash with pragmatism. Gautam(Saif), a womanizer falls for the benign Meera(Diana) while the bohemian Veronica(Deepika) struggles to seek his attention,mistaking his act of sleeping with her to be love. These young people reside in a world where expressing oneself is as difficult as understanding oneself. They try to cope with reality with compromise,sacrifice,obstinacy and indifference.
While the benevolent Meera cannot make her legally wedded husband fall for her,Gautam cannot refuse Veronica. Veronica does not want Meera to be unhappy,while she does not want her to live without love. It is wholly complicated,only to be untangled in the end,by Veronica. Pretty realistic,less mushy,and loaded with feet-tapping music and lush locales,Cocktail is a heady concoction which leaves a happy hangover.

What starts out as a lighthearted comedy finally ends up as a massacre. I simply fail to understand why Indian movie makers cannot abandon the age old formula of a love triangle. And to add insult to injury the movie is highly sexist. Saif Ali Khan is too old to portray even a 32 year old (as stated in the movie). It's surprising, if not idiotic that every woman he meets gets charmed by his outdated and cheesy lines. It's as if women in this movie are just dying to be wooed by this old bloke.
Deepika however looks pretty convincing and probably it's one of her best performances till date.
The plot is fine till the first half an hour or so, but as the movie proceeds Deepika tries to mold herself into the perfect Indian girl, just in order to convince the groom's family that she's an eligible Indian bride. In a way the movie reiterates that it's fine if you smoke, booze and go nuts, as long as you're a guy, but if you're a woman, especially an Indian woman then these things are a big no for you. Sexism at it's best!!!