Two decades after Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao made young hearts go aflutter with their unalloyed innocence and Alisha Chinai gave voice to their chemistry with “Chot Dil Pe Lagi, Pyaar Hone Laga”, Tips has mounted a spiritual sequel of Ishq Vishq . Unfortunately, the chot is only on pocket this time as the film brings to light the sorry state of young romance in Bollywood. The only spirited thing is a desi Halloween sequence to inject energy into a phony three-plus-one love story that refuses to take off.
When a film producer (Kusha Kapila) shows faith in a young screenwriter Raghav (Rohit Saraf), he draws from his love story to write his first script. He is attracted to Riya (Naila Grewal) while his friend Sahir (Jibraan Khan) is dating Sanya (Pashmina Roshan). However, their bonds turn out to be fragile as Raghav and Sanya start gravitating towards each other.
If the Ken Ghosh-directed original felt like the stretched story behind a music video, the sequel for the most pans out like a long episode of Splitsvilla where the confused and courageous youngsters keep indulging in vishk and vyar in the search for ishq and pyar . There is plenty of posturing and preening but hardly any heartfelt conversations; the twists feel perfunctory and the romantic energy is cosmetic. Director Nipun Dharmadikhari employs the usual justifications to explain the behaviour of the protagonists.
Sanya is insecure because she is a product of a broken marriage, Sahir is indecisive because of a .
