Just imagine…
A contemporary yet
classic love story which diaries the lives of two best friends Emma Morley
(Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) over a period of two decades!
After spending the night together on the night of their college
graduation, which also happens to be 15th July, St. Swithin’s day,
Dex and Em are shown each year on the same date for almost 18 years. It is a
slice of their life, with a dressing of various emotions; friendship, success,
failure, dreams, desires, marriages, divorces, break-ups, fun, happiness,
sadness, loneliness & eternal love!
One Day, based on David
Nicholls' best-selling book by the same name sounds very promising, but boils
down to merely turning pages of the calendar! Anne looks too pretty to be cast
as a below average looking dork & too American to be cast as a Yorkshire
lass- nevertheless her smile can compensate for all the flaws! Jim’s
performance is commendable & probably the only saving grace for the sporadic
movie!
Just in case you like the
“idea” or “premise” of eternal friendship & unstated love, you might as
well watch an English play named Chaos Theory, starring Zafar Karachiwala &
Anhita Uberoi. Chaos theory is far far far better than One Day, despite its
limitations of space & effects as a stage show as compared to the film.
Read David Nicholls' book
or watch Chaos Theory (A play staged at NCPA, Mumbai) instead of watching the
movie One day!
L(ov+uc)
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