Review: 'One By Two'

While Preeti as the day-time dreamer tripping over her dance shoes to get to the finishing lines, gets a tailor-made role (including a scene justifying her poor command over the Hindi language), it is Abhay who holds the yawning stretches of this urban tale where the human aspirations don't listen to the alarm clock.

Abhay clocks up a very assured working-class hero's character. He is bitter but not broken. Bewildered by the vagaries of life, but never unamused by the irony of it all. He is everyman, and yet special in his ordinariness.

As for the film , the quirky mood is never too far off from the smooth surface. Pushing its way out of the film's inner-world the characters' insistent clamorous self-projections become more amusing than tragic when weighed against the sheer commonness of their dreams.There is a warm lived-in feeling to Bhagat's directorial debut. It may not win your heart as unconditionally as Farhan Akhtar's directorial debut 'Dil Chahta Hai'. But there's a winsome, bubbly bouncy and ebullient quality to this take on urban aspirations.

Irresistible in parts, 'One By Two' never disappoints.

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