Cocktail Review

A coming-of-age film about young people and their world of relationships where passion clashes with emotion,love clashes with friendship,sentiments clash with pragmatism. Gautam(Saif), a womanizer falls for the benign Meera(Diana) while the bohemian Veronica(Deepika) struggles to seek his attention,mistaking his act of sleeping with her to be love. These young people reside in a world where expressing oneself is as difficult as understanding oneself. They try to cope with reality with compromise,sacrifice,obstinacy and indifference.

While the benevolent Meera cannot make her legally wedded husband fall for her,Gautam cannot refuse Veronica. Veronica does not want Meera to be unhappy,while she does not want her to live without love. It is wholly complicated,only to be untangled in the end,by Veronica. Pretty realistic,less mushy,and loaded with feet-tapping music and lush locales,Cocktail is a heady concoction which leaves a happy hangover.