Pyar Ke Side Effects review

The airily affable Pyaar Ke Side Effects begins with a scene of Trisha (Mallika Sherawat) asking boyfriend Sid (Rahul Bose), “Do you love me?â€? in the middle of an India-Pakistan cricket match, and a little later, they’ve had a tiff and a cheeky little scoreboard – like the ones used in boxing – pops up at the bottom of the screen, chalking up points for both as they go about trying to patch up. These sporting references are probably no accident, for the film itself is a marathon bout of Boy vs. Girl, Mars vs. Venus. We’ve seen this sort of thing a thousand times in Hollywood before… But with the same basic idea transposed to a desi setting – with brown-skinned people and smatterings of Hinglish … it all seems fresh and interesting again.

B.Rangan finds Pyar Ke Side Effects a fresh, fun rom-com.