The music by Anu Malik has no real highlights and, like the film, probes its way around several genres. However, she is mostly really more of a pleasant diversion than a full-fledged character. Juhi Chawla is very pretty and good fun to watch, and it is her very energetic performance that drives the movie along much of the time. Ajay Devgan has great onscreen chemistry with Kajol (they aren't married for no reason, it seems), but overall his character has a serious depth deficit and is just too gullible. The lead actors give solid performances, particularly Kajol and Aamir Khan, who manage to be funny (without overdoing it) in the comedy bits and believably serious/emotional (without overdoing it) in the tragic parts. Most of the supporting cast are somewhat annoying, especially in the slapstick scenes, although Johny Lever for once plays a fairly non-silly, likeable character. As for the acting, well, don't expect stellar performances. Plot holes and illogical character behaviour aplenty, but that's what you expect of any Bollywood movie, more or less. At one point, there's even a horror scene thrown in for good measure. Still, the evil schemes become increasingly more devious, and their consequences more severe as the film progresses along with this progression, the film makes its way through all genres that you can imagine: it starts out as a fairly silly slapstick comedy, turns into romantic comedy, then into romance, then into thriller and finally into a tragic melodrama.
On to another scheme, which again is not successful. There is no real plot instead there's a sequence of scenes where the two fathers devise a dirty scheme, which is promptly thwarted by the young lovers. Rich boy falls in love with poor girl, poor boy falls in love with rich girl, and the two rich fathers will do anything to destroy the two budding relationships. The story is fairly simple: rich boy (Ajay Devgan) and poor boy (Aamir Khan) are best friends, rich girl (Juhi Chawla) and poor girl (Kajol) are best friends. I guess that most Bollywood movies will strike western viewers as somewhat quirky in terms of storytelling structure and acting, but compared to other Bollywood movies I've seen so far, this one seems to be an exceptionally quirky one.
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