| Cast: |
Hrithik
Roshan, Esha Deol, Saif Ali Khan |
| Director: |
Arjun
Sablok |
| Music: |
Rajesh Roshan |
Sometimes, only God knows why things
work the way they do. After much song, 
dance
and tears, confusion and pricked male egos, you eventually
end up in the arms of your true love, even if it is
four years and three long Bollywood hours later.
Na Tum Jaano Na Hum is another one of those triangular
love stories, where only one man can have the woman
both he and his best friend love.
Esha (Esha Deol) and photographer Rahul
(Hrithik Roshan) first hear each other on Radio FM,
through a request programme. Esha, while still in
school in Shimla, dedicates her song to any person
who "is in love with being in love" ie Yeh
woh insaan ke liye hain jise pyaar se pyaar hain.
At the other end in Mumbai, a rapt Rahul
immediately punches the radio station's number on
his cell phone and adds his two bit to Esha's concept
of love. She decides to get familiar with this young
man, without meeting him.
T
hen
starts the exchange of sweet words on love paper dotted
with big blue blots. Every month, Rahul receives mail
in his anonymous Post Box No 143 at Colaba post office,
Mumbai. And Esha receives her mail via her best friend
in Shimla. Esha and Rahul discover they have plenty
in common, including the colour blue (which probably
explains the letter paper they use), thus speeding
up their falling-in- love process.
A photography assignment for the bridal
collection of Esha's grandfather's (Alok Nath) massive
apparel store, sees Rahul flying to Shimla. Esha's
hair blows out dramatically from behind her, the camera
zooms in onto Rahul's light eyes, and Esha lightly
moves on after briefly shaking hands with the photographer
she mistakes for a model.
Some more blue paper letters are exchanged.
One day, Esha's grandfather decides to get her married
to a boy her Bua [aunt] has known since he was a kid.
Enter Akshay (Saif Ali Khan). A disaster
in his previous affairs, Akshay now longs to find
true 
love.
He sends best friend Rahul to meet his wife-to-be,
declaring he will marry Esha only if Rahul approved
of her. And that is why Rahul lands up in Shimla.
The bridal photoshoot offer was an excuse, after all.
Only, Esha didn't know that. When she finds out, she
is livid.
Akshay too comes to Shimla and, quite
expectedly, falls for Esha. She, on the other hand,
tells him she cannot marry him because she is waiting
for a man whose name she doesn't know, whose profession
she knows nothing about, whose whereabouts she has
no knowledge of and whose family she has never met.
Naturally, Akshay scoffs at the idea
of Esha loving someone she has never seen/ felt/ held.
Even though Esha requests him time and again to call
off the wedding, he stubbornly refuses, and the shaadi
mandap [marriage pandal] springs up on schedule.
You wonder why it is so difficult for
Akshay to accept Esha's love for someone she has never
met, considering he had sworn to marry her before
he saw her.
You also wonder why bachpan ki dosti
[childhood friendship] always becomes so debilitating
that 
maturely
confronting the fact that both friends love one woman
seems impossible.
First-time director Arjun Sablok does
nothing spectacular with the movie. Perhaps the only
worthwhile mention is the song Aha aha, where he does
something different with its visualisation. And Rajesh
Roshan has certainly scored better music in the past.
As far as performances go, Esha is quite
good, emoting clearly with her eyes. She makes the
transition from bubbly schoolgirl to young woman waiting
for her love easily. Her grace fills the screen. Dancing
seems to come as naturally to her as it does to Hritik.
A carbon copy
of her mother Hema Malini, one cannot help but feel
one is watching the Dream Girl all over again.
Hrithik still has the same substance
everyone talks about. Comedy, anger, helplessness
--- his face reflects them all vividly. He moves to
the music instinctively, as he always has. Saif, surprisingly,
isjust about average. Maybe it has to do with the
high expectations resting on him after his performance
in Farhan Akhtar's Dil Chahta Hai.
On the whole, Na Tum Jaano Na Hum is
a regular Bollywood film. One could go watch it, but
one would not miss anything if one didn't.
