Creative Quotient
Undergraduate Raj (Ranbir Kapoor) shows off his “killer” quality by pretending to be in love with Mahi (Minissha Lamba) while on a vacation with buddies in Switzerland. When the lovestruck, small-town girl (who falls for him as she is a Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge fan with fairytale visions of love) comes to know the truth she is so shattered that when she is married off (to a man who loves her to distraction) she merely ends up being an emotionless wife - and a dutiful mother to his kids.
But Raj does not know this. Years later, Raj is working in Mumbai and when aspiring actress Radhika (Bipasha Basu) moves in next door, he plans another conquest. But Radhika falls in love with him and is willing to sacrifice her career and move with him to Sydney where he is later posted. Callously, Raj ditches her and flies off even as Radhika awaits him at the Marriage Registrar’s office.
In Sydney, Raj encounters Indian cabbie Gayatri (Deepika Padukone) who believes in casual relationships but not marriage. Raj finds himself falling in love, but when he proposes (marriage), Gayatri disposes. Heratbroken for the first time, a repentant Raj returns to India to beg for forgiveness from his earlier women. But that’s not easy.

Technical Expertise
It’s been a year since YRF encountered success in Chak De! India and August may just prove lucky again for the banner. Though the Minissha-Switzerland chapter needed crispness, the film works by and large and highlights the impressionable GenerationX’s propensity to have a good and selfish time and care little for commitments and values. Ranbir’s desire to make amends may perversely sound unnecessarily foolish to youngsters and his redemption fancifully easy thanks to this being reel- rather than real-life, but if the right message goes home it will send correct signals to today’s blindly-ape-the-West’s-worst culture.
Thumbs up to Anvita’s easy dialogues, the awesome cinematography(Ritesh Soni) and the choice of stunning locales and to Siddharth Anand for returning to decent form after the aberrational Ta Ra Rum Pum. Thumbs down on the other hand to the tame climax, the music score (Vishal-Shekhar) and the uneven quality of the screenplay and performances. While Bipasha Basu outshines everyone else and Hiten Paintal and Kunal Kapoor shine, Ranbir Kapoor varies from terrific to ho-hum, Deepika just passes muster, and Minissha is okay only in the post-interval sequences.