Chand Mera Dil

Early on in Chand Mera Dil, two lovers in the throes of a feverish college romance do something weird. They’ve just been arrested for public indecency after stopping the motorcycle in the middle of a busy highway so that she can straddle him for an intimate discussion about their future. I’m all for dramatic gestures, but why risk becoming roadkill for a random film-poster moment? But this is not the weird thing. When they’re at the police station, she starts crying when he admits to having quit cigarettes for her. She explains that she isn’t used to such importance because her father was a wife-beater and her childhood sucked; he also chimes in with his two cents of sadness. Of all the ways their little heart-to-heart could’ve been staged, this has the least sense of occasion and timing. Get a room, but read the room first.