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Story: A dulha-to-be gets his first lessons on marriage, adultery and how to be a 'happy cheater husband'.

Movie Review: Warning for Men only: If you're cheating on your wife, or planning a feisty fling - keep the married-half away from this one.

So let's get started. With the coitus of the problem - Shaadi. Well, this is a Big Fat Indian Wedding (for the umpteenth time). Oh yes, it's Punjabi too (surprise, surprise!) - With a battalion of baraatis, desi girls, daru and dancing aplenty. While the mummyjis and maamijis (high-voltage at all times) are busy with mehmaans and make-up, the hubbies are making-out with hot young things. In the 'genes', huh?

The groom, Saahil (Akash), can't wait to marry his childhood sweetheart Sneha (Tahira), until big-bro Shravan (Arshad) walks into the celebration. He feeds straight-laced Saahil with his well-practiced adulterous philosophy - 'All men are dogs. Cheating is in the hormones!' These noble thoughts all inspired by Maharishi Tharkacharya (Hai Rabba!) He tempts the boy to loosen up (read: pants), indulge and revel in his brief bachelorhood.

Well, you can't blame big-bro as he follows by example - The Maamus of the family - played by Tinu Anand, Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor. The first slept with a woman who lost her bra; post which he's lost his sanity looking for it. The second romances girls in front of his dimwit wife who thinks she's hallucinating; the third with a hideous golden hairdo gets away because of his wife's 'blonde moments'. They share one mantra - 'To have a happily married life, cheat on your wife!'

Debutant Akash makes a wet, bare-chest entry (surprise?), but doesn't show much skill in the acting area. Newbie Tahira looks pleasant but her performance doesn't go too far. Arshad's superb flair for comedy lets him walk through this part, though far from his best.

Chopra's story sounds hilarious but it doesn't have the similar effect onscreen. The ensemble is good, but some are underused, the rest overact. The film provides few laughs, but mostly lacks comedy or romance. It bursts into random songs and the climax leaves you laughing - for the wrong reasons.

Movie Review
'Romance' is a film where the romanticisation of casual fling (complete with obscene symbolism) and reification of love go hand in hand.  The former is meant to cater to the gallery class (and there is a gallery audience in each of the audience) and the latter is meant to cater to the higher being in us that wants a semblance of a story.

In telling the story of a youngster (Prince as Krishna) who wants to marry a virgin (a breaking news for his companions), 'Romance' treats us to some expected dose of titillation, commodifies the 'aam ladki', sexualizes a whole bunch of female characters even while raising a toast to true love.

Taking a cue from Maruthi's style, the director delivers a B-grade candy floss film that works in bits and pieces mainly because of the element of suspense, the narration and the lowly thrill of watching another flash of prurience after every 5 minutes (almost).

Krishna is an engineering student and unlike the rest of the world, he romanticizes romance.  His roomies sexualize romance and they belong to the normal world that the film is set in. Krishna reveals to his shell-shocked friends that he will have first touch, first kiss, and first hug with that special girl alone.  He decides to test waters with two girls, one after one, and whoever passes his test will be his wife.

A girl who tells her date of birth correctly can be said to be 33% genuine, if she never sought the help of a guy on a rainy night she scores more and so on.  The first one (played by Manasa) fails the test and Krishna dumps her, only to bump into a second girl (played by sultry-looking Dimple), who initially comes across as even more difficult.

The second girl poses a challenge to him at some point and in comes the first girl to make the matters worse.

The narration somehow cleverly manages to deceive us but the screenplay is a badly-cooked hotch-potch.  One sees flashes of '3G Love' and 'Saradaga Ammayitho'.  There is so much of tu-tu-main-main fight between the species of strong character (girls) and the species of loose morals (boys) that reminds one of '3G Love'.  The hostel episodes are so utterly unimaginative that the film actually puts Varun Sandesh's last film to shame.

There is a terrible itch that our filmmakers are increasingly suffering from - the ridiculous urge to go for parodies (read the hostel girl's imitation of superstars and a few memorable lascivious numbers) and mimicry scenes that simply fall flat.  There is an item song involving so many sex objects and the biggest sex object of them all -  the hero - to add to our owes.

A good idea like Break-Up Day is spoilt by the writer's imposing desire to convince the Telugu audience that most girls are incredibly promiscuous enough to dump their boy friends by publicly denouncing the latter's failure to take advantage of the former's overtures.

The film is entirely a series of gags; it has got not much to hold the interest of the audience for 140-plus minutes.  Thus, the director laces the dialogue with titillation.

Krishna's character required someone with the skill to enact in a nuanced manner.  Prince woefully lacks this quality and he fails his otherwise meaty role.  Dimple doesn't have the grace to be a female lead; all that she bottles up is oomph.  Manasa is OK.

Few of the friends will excite the college-going audience and bore the rest of us.

In the hands of a sensible director, 'Romance' could have fared a little well and that is all.

The music is a let down; the songs are forgettable.  Cinematography could have been better.

'Romance' comes with the flavor of 3G Love and Saradaga Ammayitho more than Ee Rojullo or Bus Stop.  It is a second-rate film doling out nothing more than a dose of titillation.

Ilayathalapathy Vijay's Thalaivaa directed by Vijay went through the Revising committee today after the producers of the film Sri Mishri Productions wanted a U certificate for the film which had been cleared with an UA earlier. The Revising committee has cleared film with an 'U' certificate subject to some minor cuts and the film is set to hit the screen for Eid on Aug 9th.

Thalaivaa will have Vijay and Amala Paul pairing for the first time. The film is said to be an action entertainer produced by Sri Mishri Productions Chandraparakash Jain and will be distributed in Tamil Nadu by Vendhar Movies S Madhan. The film also has Sathyaraj and Santhanam among others in important roles, while the music is scored by G V Prakash and camera is handled by Nirav Shah.