The Film: Yeh Dil Aashiqana
Starring: Karan Nath, Jeevi, Rajat Bedi, Mukesh Rishi, Johnny Lever, Aroona Irani
Producer: Aruna Irani
Director: Kuku Kohli
Music: Nadeem-Shravan
Rating: 1½/5 (Fair)

This is average fare targeted at the masses, as there is nothing strikingly great in this movie. Average story, with a new star cast who are still trying hard to make a mark – this movie would find it difficult to attract the box office collections.

The story of the film is set against the backdrop of terrorism. Karan (Karan Nath) and Pooja (debutant Jeevidha) study in the same college in Pune and are very much in love. Their romance progresses with out any problem until one day while flying to Mumbai, Pooja's flight is hijacked by a group of terrorists. This follows the arrest of a dreaded terrorist and the leader of the extremist group, Ashraf-ul-haq-Malik. Ironically, the hijack is engineered by Pooja's brother, Vijay Verma (Rajat Bedi), who is in league with the chief of the hijackers, Akhmash Jalal (Aditya Pancholi).

Vijay is unaware that his sister is on the same flight. When he realizes this, he is unable to do anything as Akhmash forbids him from doing anything that would jeopardize their mission. Also, when he calls the terrorists to save his sister the cell phone falls down from the terrorist’s pocket which eventually also lands Vijay into trouble as his number is registered in the sim card.

Out of the blues we all start realizing that our next-door college boy is a super martial artist strongly inspired by Jackie Chan movies and tricks to rescue hijacked planes by watching the Air Force One series!

Karan daringly risks his life and rescues Pooja and other passengers thus making Akhmash and Vijay his enemies.

The entire hijacking filming is very unimpressive and one hardly gets charged with suspense, the fight scenes of Karan are nice and one can see that he has really worked towards it, but our boy should also excel in other acting grounds.

Akhsmash is now out to kill Karan. Vijay refuses the marriage of Pooja and Karan, so they run away, only to be followed and held captive by the terrorists. The terrorists now try to blackmail the Government by demanding the release of their leader Ashraf-ul-haq-Malik in exchange for the lives of Pooja and Karan.

The Government capitulates to this demand, but when the exchange takes place Karan kills the bad guys while the army men look around like they have come to see chickens!

The movie has hajaar errors like when they show the plane taking off – they show Indian Airllines and later on they show Dolphin Airlines. The moviemakers needed to show more intensity and tension in the hijack and terrorist attack scenes. Somehow you feel the real hijack at the Kandahar airport last year seen on Zee News was far more interesting than this movie.

The cinematography by Baba Azmi is great but otherwise the music score, dialogues and star cast is average. Jividha has acted ok and looks cute in the song sequences but she is certainly not star material. Karan is good for the fighting scenes and otherwise he needs lot of homework before he returns on the screen.

Johnny Lever has a double role to play and is funny as usual; wish he was till the end of the movie. Both Rajat Bedi and Aditya Pancholi have both acted well.

There was little that Aroona Irani had to do, also the main terrorist in the prison looked great.

The title song sung by Kumar Sanu is infectious but it would have been nice if there were youthful voices that of Shaan, KK or Shankar.