Nitya Mehra directed ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ is a romance film that is quite different from other Bollywood romances. The concept of time travel is a bit hard to grasp in the beginning but it all comes down to a beautiful climax. All your questions are answered at the end. The cinematography is beautiful and Katrina and Sidharth look sizzling together. Though their performances are decent, it is their chemistry that makes up for everything. The music is one great part of the film. Nitya Mehra has done well in the direction department. Over all, it is a fun one-time watch. Go and travel back and forth in time.

Good-looking places, good-looking people, good-looking everything else. If there is one thing Nitya Mehra's Baar Baar Dekho gets right, it is how to exploit everything good-looking in the vicinity. For most part of the songs, that falls on Katrina Kaif's abs - the most-talked-about part of the film as of now. Debutant director Nitya Mehra attempts to make a 'high-concept' love story, only to fall light years short of what the film could have been. The film keeps you guessing, to the point that you don't really care. The screenplay doesn't have any room for anything except this feast of beauty; from the background to the people in front of the camera. The film leaves you un-understandably restless; you want to leave the theatre, but the promise of Kala Chashma at the end of the film keeps you waiting. Mehra's imagination makes Sidharth and Katrina travel from ages eight to their teenage, to mid-twenties, to mid-forties, and then late-fifties. The film essentially tries to drive home the message of carpe diem. The 'concept' could have taken off, but is let down by the execution of Baar Baar Dekho. That is, if you count out the half-hearted performances by the lead actors. Baar Baar Dekho shines in the cinematography department. Ravi K Chandran's camera captures Thailand, Glasgow and Katrina's abs in all their glory; making Baar Baar Dekho more about the fluff than anything substantial. In all, watch Baar Baar Dekho if you swear by the newer, fitter, leaner, hotter Katrina Kaif and her abs. There's nothing much to watch otherwise.

Quite a lot, actually, as it turns out: Baar Baar Dekho doesn’t have anything that can entice us into repeat viewings, let alone a single one, because the execution is flat and banal. The appeal of a winsome romance is the thing between two lovers: the more it pulses, the more effective it is. On that most crucial score, Jay and Diya don’t make our hearts beat: they cosy up but there is nothing going on between the two.They traverse continents and time zones and eras, zigging into the past and zagging into a future which has remote-controlled transport and plangent screens controlled by hand gestures, but there’s no sense of wonder in these scenes. The lovers don’t make us dewy-eyed either even if the film they are in is glossy and bursting with good looking people and places. You end up admiring the scenery and feeling very little. What the film needed was to borrow some of the high voltage energy of the madly addictive Kala Chashma ditty, which has turned into the season’s club song du jour. Baar baar dekho? Wishful thinking. Once is way more than enough.