Movie: Socha Na Tha (Unexpected)
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Year: 2005
Stars: Abhay Deol, Ayesha Takia and Apoorva Jha

Snapshot of the story
Socha Na Tha is a story of a guy who is going to marry a girl selected by his parents but rejects her and wants to marry his Catholic girlfriend which is unacceptable to his parents. While he is trying to convince his parents to let him marry her, he finds himself in love with the girl his parents chose for him. Story takes a sweet and funny twist as it finally reaches it’s climax.

Storyline
Viren (played by Abhay Deol) is going to marry Aditi (played by Ayesha Takia), a girl selected by his parents being their friends daughter. But Viren is in love with a Catholic girl named Karen (played by Apoorva Jha) and wants to marry her. He confides with Aditi and both of them arrive at a pact that Viren would refuse the marriage proposal with Aditi.

The rejection by Viren creates a rift between the two families which triggers a war of words. At the same time Viren continues to date Karen and proposes her for marriage, the response of which is positive. Then he meets Karen’s parents and they also agree, but when they go for the permission from his parents they disapprove the match.

In the ensuing chaos, Viren also continues to meet Aditi, even though there are no strings attached. Both of them feel free to talk and share their feelings with each other. Then there’s a dramatic turnaround in the story when Viren realizes that his heart is now beating for Aditi. On the other side another dramatic turnaround takes place and his parents agree to make Karen their daughter–in–law. Now Viren is in another mess, for now he wants to marry Aditi and not Karen.

Final Thoughts

Socha Na Tha is small budget movie and show that it does not need to be the big budget movie to be a block buster hit. The movie gets its appeal just because of the unpredictable situations woven with a good story narrated by Imtiaz Ali. Socha Na Tha is good in the screenplay and all the actors give off their best. Credit goes to Imtiaz Ali for making a simple story very compelling. Climax of the movie was a bit predictable which can be ignored sijnce the movie overall was much fun to watch. Music is not the selling point for this movie and also not really needed because of the brilliant direction of Imtiaz Ali.

Rating

Socha Na Tha scores 7 out of 10 for its simple but engaging story. Both Ayesh Takia and Abhay Deol was a newcomer and did a fantastic job. We would like to add 1 more star just for their outstanding performance making the rating 8 out of 10.

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