[Assam] [assam] Five Centuries of Love:That's A Lot of Past Lives

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New Work Times (May 12, 2012)

Forget “till death do us part.” In the Bollywood romance “Dangerous 
Ishhq” love transcends bodies and conquers time. After a knock on the 
head and some past-life regression therapy, the long-suffering heroine, 
Sanjana (Karisma Kapoor), learns just how long she’s been suffering: 
about 500 years.
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Karisma Kapoor in the romance "Dangerous Ishhq."
The plot loops back into Sanjana’s past lives, which include stops 
during the partition of India in 1947, a Mughal succession in 1658, and 
even earlier, when Sanjana’s transmigrating love story started in a 
flurry of boons and curses. It was then that her soul was bound in 
perpetuity to that of another (Rajniesh Duggall, a Mr. India turned 
actor), and also to that of a nemesis whose violent schemes have grown 
more elaborate through the ages. In the present-day story he has 
kidnapped Mr. Duggall’s character and, inevitably, wired him with 
explosives and strapped him to a chair.

“Dangerous Ishhq” (“Dangerous Love”), directed by Vikram Bhatt, is 
meant as a comeback vehicle for the green-eyed Ms. Kapoor (Kareena 
Kapoor’s sister), whose big films were in the late 1990s and early 
2000s, and whose appearances have been rare lately. But “Dangerous 
Ishhq” itself feels out of time, beamed from a long-ago era of 
preposterous plotting and cheesy effects.

This is the kind of movie where the villain plants his feet and bellows 
at the heavens; things explode willy-nilly (watch out for the coffee 
cup in your hand); and the only comic relief is of the unintended kind. 
Ms. Kapoor and Mr. Duggall don’t have much chemistry, and the film is 
too silly to have any emotional traction. In Hindi cinema, that’s 
unforgivable.

Dangerous Ishhq

Opened on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Vikram Bhatt; action director, Abbas Ali Moghul; written by 
Amin Hajee; director of photography, Pravin Bhatt; edited by Kuldip K. 
Mehan; music by Himesh Reshammiya, score by Raju Singh; costumes by 
Manish Malhotra; produced by Arun Rangachari; released by Reliance Big 
Pictures. In Manhattan at the Big Manhattan, 239 East 59th Street. In 
Hindi, with English subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes. This 
film is not rated.

WITH: Karisma Kapoor (Sanjana Seksena), Rajniesh Duggall (Rohan 
Thakral), Divya Dutta (Dr. Neeta) and Jimmy Shergil (ACP Singh).