What can you expect from a movie that within the first 10 seconds of starting has a statue telling a story. The word you are searching for is “silliness”.
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani is director Rajkumar Santoshi‘s attempt to bring back the Andaz Apna Apna experience and boy is it hilarious(the lame but still good kind). The movie is packed with slapstick, physical and sometimes the humor of the highest quality. In all the silliness and clichéd storyline involving very funny characters, the movie is a true entertainer but only if you enjoy this sort of entertainment :)
What I liked most about the movie is that at no point does it expect the viewer to take it seriously. Even in its most serious moments, like the scene where Prem is speaking to Jesus asking him to speak to Bolenath for him so that he can be forgiven for eating meat, leaves the audience in splits.
The movie has its bad moments too. The first 15 minutes of the second half is a real bore and the misplaced song “Tu Jaane Na”, whose picturization is beautiful but totally out of context with the style of the movie. There are moments where jokes are taken totally overboard and that works against the movie.
Acting wise I was highly impressed with Ranbir and the chemistry with Katrina worked well in the movie. The casting was great and I personally loved the performance of Darshan Jariwala who played Prem’s dad in the movie.
I went to the movie with 5 of my friends and by the end of the movie only only was still there. By contrast almost the whole theater loved the movie and I echoed their opinion. So I cant guarantee that you will love or hate the movie, but if you like the first 15 min of the movie rest assured you will like the movie.