The promos have led us to expect a warm, funny, poignant, likeable film with warm, funny, poignant, likeable characters and story however this weekend’s big release from Yash Raj Films, Lafangey Parindey has got rather mixed reviews.

To put this film in a nutshell this is where the good natured meddling of the Jane Austen character Emma from the year 1815 meets Reese Witherspoon's air headed character from the immensely enjoyable Clueless with a dash of Sex and the City kind of glamour thrown in.

The Priyadarshan benchmark for comic films was set with Hera Pheri a laugh a minute film with likeable characters – reasonably etched and somewhat believable – also a cogent story line and a plot that had a starting point, development and then a conclusion. That was the film in which Akshay Kumar established himself as a real funny man in a leading role.

Milenge Milenge released yesterday was supposed to be interesting because of the presence of ex flames Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor as the lead pair – that and the fact that it has been 6 years in the making (Kareena is therefore seen in her chubbier pre-size-0 avatar when Saif Ali Khan was yet to happen). The movie is based on the 2001 John Cusack – Kate Beckinsale starrer ...