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Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Rating: **

Mixing of genres can often be tricky, because there’s always a chance of the story seeming disjointed.
In Tum Mile, while the Mumbai ‘05 floods add some curiosity value to the film — which is otherwise an out an out love story — there is no natural intermingling of these two genres. It could have been any crisis at any place in which these two lovers meet after a period of estrangement and it wouldn’t have made a difference. This lack of resonance is one of the reasons why the film doesn’t really work as a love story-cum thriller.
Also, unlike Mumbai Meri Jaan, where the sense of pervading dread comes across effectively, due to the universality of the subject and the handling of it, in Tum Mile the connection with the city is weak — as the floods can easily be viewed as an isolated crisis.

Kunal Deshmukh intercuts between the past and the present, trying to balance between the two genres from the very first scene. The weather department in Mumbai gets the signal of the impending crisis but takes it casually. The film then cuts to Emraan Hashmi who is flying to Mumbai and notices his ex flame Soha sitting in a seat nearby in the plane. Through numerous flashbacks, you are acquainted with their past lives. The back and forth lends the film a much-needed sense of urgency, and Tum Mile stays pretty much on course (or at least mildly engaging) till the last 35-40 minutes, when it goes awry.

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