Chances are, you will "get it" and appreciate it. If you are romantic at heart, like me, please go and watch it. I would have rated this movie 8/10, if it has ended right after powerful title song so passionately sung by Ranbir, which evokes memories of "Sadda Haq". I have seen bad editing of not trimming toward end of many romantic movies - from Kabhie Kabhie days (last 10 mins of botched up climax) to Silsila, KANK and JTHJ – they frustrate the moviegoers towards the end and you give an otherwise good product worse rating. Unfortunately but NOT surprisingly, the director lets us down in last 20 mins or so – wish our Indian Directors have the courage to end the movie when it HAS TO – most of the time trimming out last 20-30 mins will be an ideal solution. While, surprisingly KJo has handled this so maturely, credit is due more with actor's performances, particularly Ranbir. Unrequited love is a difficult subject to handle, yet most of us may have gone through it during our various phase of life. This movie slowly grows on you, if you watch it with open mind. Unlike many Hollywood movies, our Hindi movies do not spend too much time on character development and sometime you don't connect, especially during initial moments of the movie.
Sure there are good supporting cast like Lisa Haydon but they do are intertwined appropriately with the story. It is a remarkable achievement for a commercial Hindi movie to do away with unnecessary supporting cast which ails most of our Indian movies in guise of comedy or family relationship melodramas. Four people, in love and there is no distraction of parents or bothers or sister or other relatives. It is more a commercial entertainer like "Silsila" or "JTHJ" but what is unique about ADHM is it only focuses on characters in love. It is also not a classy or realistic one – nowhere like say "Lootera" or "The Lunchbox" – two good romantic movies which are on par with Hollywood classics like "Before Sunrise" series or "Eternal Sunshine". Most songs are in set up in glitzy clubs from London to Vienna It is not "in your face" love story – sure it is shot with typical KJo brand of colorful rich upper class people – but it is definitely a love story of cerebral kind.
And if you are past mid-30s you may not relate to the places where love "flows". ADHM is a wonderful movie for "romantics", especially those who have gone through unrequited love.
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