Pyaar Impossible, 2010

With Uday Chopra and Priyanka Chopra
Not rated but Bollywood films tend to be for all audiences

I noticed while editing the tags on the site this morning that we had never reviewed “Pyaar Impossible.” This movie, watched once by myself, watched again by myself and Pia, and finally by the whole family, also got the kids singing its trademark song, “Alisha.”

It was after I watched “Dhoom 2″ with the famous Hrithik Roshan late last spring that one of the less important characters in that movie, Uday Chopra, caught my attention for his enthusiasm and humor. Although cast as a sidekick, he managed to carry off a significant and funny romantic subplot. “Does this guy have any other movies?” I wondered. That let me to Pyaar Impossible.

“Pyaar” is the Hindi word for love, apparently. The Pyaar Impossible in question is the love that geeky Abhay has for Alisha, the beautiful bad girl he meets at college. Although he rescues her from drowning, he still never even gets to speak to her. Nevertheless, he continues carrying a torch for her for years while he works on his masterpiece software project in an effort to become rich and “be somebody.”

Now for the fun part. On an important business trip to Singapore, Abhay meets the still-beautiful Alisha, but now she’s a divorced, working mother — disgraced, in other words.  He still loves her, so might he have a chance? The problem is — you guessed it — he’s still a socially inept geek. The best way he can get close to her is to work as her nanny, with, as they say, hilarious consequences.

Upon reading the reviews, it seems that native Hindi speakers didn’t always like the dialogue but in translation, it comes across as funny and engaging. At any rate, any movie that I’ve seen three times deserves a review here. I’ve pasted in the trailer below.