The first half of the film was unbearably slow, with Ajay Devgan playing a Romeo-type psychiatrist on a cruise along with two of his coupled up friends. While on the cruise Devgan's character "Ajay" has a love-at-first-sight encounter with one of the waitresses on the cruise, "Pia," played by Kajol. I must say usually I am a sucker for real life couples portraying on screen lovers, but there was no chemistry or excitement to be found between these two; if anything it seemed a bit stale. The story continues with Ajay trying to woo Pia by finding out all that he can about her (from a scrapbook no less, called "The Book Of Possibilities," which he finds in her cabin) leading into a bunch of unnecessary flash back/dream sequences with cheesy comical scenarios and strange background animation.
Ajay uses this information to his benefit and portrays himself as this expert salsa dancing, dog loving, chocolate liqueur aficionado. One forgettable song and dance later, Pia falls in love with Ajay. Moments after, Pia gets a forced confession from Ajay stating that he had lied about everything. (Inserting dramatic background music here) "DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN" . . . Who really cares?
Outside of the painfully boring direction of the story and a bland supporting cast, Devgan uses what I can only call brave close up full frame head shots of both him and Kajol continuously, allowing the audience to see every hair that makes up Kajol's uni-brow and every tobacco stained tooth from Devgan's crooked smile. (YIKES!)
The first half of the film ends with a dramatic yet predictable setup, where the audience finds out that all is not right with Pia and her mental health.
After intermission the film definitely picks up, because all the romantic pursuits and verbose dialogue shift into dramatic acting and a clearer storyline. And although as refreshing as it was to have the main female lead diagnosed with a rare early stage of Alzheimer's, the inconsistent flow and unnecessary scenes in the films first half combined with the uneven screenplay and room temperature musical score (by Vishal Bhardwaj) make the film as choppy as Devgan's English accent.
You know something? (You will hear this dialogue at least three million times in the film) Ajay Devgan the dramatic actor is great, Ajay Devgan the director has potential, but Ajay Devgan the comic/romantic lead hero is as KRAZZY as having SRK and Hrithik doing items songs in a Bollywood knockoff of The Dream Team.
Overall U, Me, Aur Hum (or as I would like to call it U, Me, Aur Yawn) is definitely a rental.
To see or not to see folks . . . I'll let you know at the next premiere.
Final Rating: * * ½
