Film: “Jodi Breakers”Starring: R. Madhavan, Bipasha Basu, Dipannati Sharma, Milind Soman, HelenDirector: Ashwini ChowdharyRating: 
Just whilst you think you’ve seen them all, from the hit jodis to the split jodis comes “Jodi Breakers…”. A jodi-daar pair, Madhavan and Bipasha Basu arrange a business of splitting couples…until they finally end up splitting the incorrect couple.That’s when all hell breaks loose.
Interestingly the wronged couple is played by two model-turned-actors Milind Soman and Dipannati Sharma who're a category act, together and apart.Dipannati specially, whom we saw a while ago in a sublime avatar in “Ladies versus Ricky Behl”, makes you wonder why some ladies get left behind within the rat race.
Or why any man could be stupid enough to depart a wife like Ms. Sharma. That’s the idea which holds the shaky screenplay of “Jodi Breakers” together – that we regularly finally end up giving ourselves a wrong deal within the bid for love.
The concept of a couple falling in love as they go about breaking couples is interesting enough to carry a two-hour long rom-com together. Lamentably, the episodes showing a pile-up of desperately-estranged couples trying to find an escape from marriage are hardly as amusing as one would expect them to be, given the placement.
At various places, the screenplay simply slithers to a standstill looking ahead to the writer’s next brainwave. Until then, there’s always the song break.The music is all the safe variety, expansive ballads, an attractive item song…download-able waste.
Madhavan and Bipasha Basu’s screen presence goes far in covering up the film’s frail passages. They appear to vibe well together and convey a type of shared empathy to the proceedings that seems to signify there’s a lot more happening here than meets the eye.Madhavan in two dramatic key sequences holds the camera like a lover. Rest is brat-boy-fun-time stuff.
This might have been the easiest rom-com about a less than perfect couple seeking to earn a living out of broken-down relationships. Sadly, director Ashwini Choudhary fails to head the entire hog. Somewhere down the road the characters stop thinking and start shrinking. They undergo motions which can be written for them.
And not very convincing motions at that.
If the film works in any respect it’s because Madhavan and Bipasha make a cute couple and check out to extract the utmost enjoyment from their under-written smart-on-top-shaky-at-the-bottom characters. Besides them you actually won’t find too many side-splitting moments on this film about jodi-splittng. – IANS
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