Student of the Year
Director: - Karan
Johar.
Producer: - Hiroo
yash johar & Gauri khan.
Cast: - Siddarth
Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Rishi Kapoor.
Music: - Vishal
& Shekhar.
This is the first film that Karan Johar has stepped out of
his comfort zone and worked with new actors, Siddarth Malhotra and Varun
Dhawan.
Every element here from the story and the setting to the
music and the packaging is an acknowledged not to mothballed Hindi Cinema
conventions.
Student of the Year,
pretty much depends on what perfection you view from, or perhaps how old are
you. If nothing else, the director has his target audience set-YOUTH, as it
were.
Student of the Year is an updated rehash of Kuch Kuch Hota
Hai, the mushy love triangle that KJo made is directional debut with a decade
and a half ago. To tailor if for the times, he throws in mild twist (including
stale gay gags may be borrowed from Dostana) for good measure.
All three new comers show ample promise as they play their
parts with loudable confidence. At a young age of 19, Alia Bhutt marks a
crockling debut. Not only does she look very fresh and beautiful but also acts
well. Both Varun and Siddarth too do a marvelous job in looking their parts and
playing the awesome.
Rensil D’Silva’s screen play appears to be focused on
creating individual scene that let the young stars act cutesy cool, never mind
what high-school emotions are being played out. The campus that is as rooted in
reality as snowfall would be in the Sahara, their high-school musical, sports,
film candy floss, love story rolled into one is about two buddies whose ties of
friendship are stretched to snapping point by the small matter of a shot at the
Student of the Year trophy and wavering affection. A functional plot gets going
with typical adolescent emotions. Love, heartbreak, peer pressure, classroom
stress and buddy bonding are given token space as much as is needed to keep the
feel good tempo up and running.
