8/10
Smart, Spanish, and a Surprisingly Spiritual Celebration of Life!!
18 July 2011
One premium road movie, brilliant locales, glamorous faces, beautiful characters, and a thrilling joyride! This movie can be seen over and over. But there's so much more than the cinematic or entertainment value - so much to learn from the Spanish trip. It asks you many questions:

@ You can decide to slog and mint money till a certain age, but who knows you'd live through that age to enjoy your riches?

@ You may be a nice guy who wants everyone around him happy. But would you do that at the cost of your ONE life?

@ You may hate (or be jealous of) the happy-go-lucky guy around you who never takes nothing seriously and is yet cool. But don't you know everyone has their fair share of pain?

Through these questions, and by portraying the power of love in our lives yet again (though in a Smarter-Bollywood-Ishtyle), Zoya makes you believe in the concept of One-Life! Though nothing is probably new in the movie, the entire package is surprisingly spiritual!

The 3 friends take a different take on bachelor's party, and decide on a 3-week trip to Spain. As promised years ago, they indulge in one adventure sport of each of their choices, and the other two join in unconditionally. Surprisingly, these thrilling adventures set them free as they take on land (bull chase), water (scuba diving) and air (sky diving). In the run, they realize the importance of, or rather living each moment of, the celebration called life. Love, family, friendship... there's a lesson of value on each of those, sprinkled abundantly with humor. The movie starts simple, slowly getting into the groove. And before you realize, you'd fall in love with life all over again. Surprisingly spiritual!

The tears in Hrithik's eyes after the scuba dive, the 3 boys holding hands during the sky dive, and they joining each other in the last leg of the bull-chase event would remain in the viewer's heart for long. And most of us would lookout to grab a copy of the impactful "shayaris" of the movie. Akhtars, take a bow!
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