Veronica (Deepika Padukone) is a spoiled, alcoholic, impulsive, wild, revealing, sexy girl who takes her life for granted and lives on her own terms. She meets Meera (Diana Penty), a shy, sweet and cultured Indian girl who is recovering from a hoax marriage to Kunal Ahuja (Randeep Hooda) and they start sharing the same apartment. They meet Gautam (Saif Ali Khan), a flirt of A-grade who can easily make his Japanese boss fall in love with him by saying "Do you believe in love at first sight yaa main dobaara ghum kar aaon?" Gautam and Veronica likes each other and Gautam designedly shifts into Veronica's apartment. Within no time Gautam, Veronica and Meera are good friends. The sudden change of events happen when Gautam's mother (Dimple Kapadia) and his "tharki" uncle (Boman Irani) comes to their place and are told that Meera is the girl Gautam loves as she's the one who is good cultured. Gautam falls in love with Meera in this chaos of events and on the other hand Veronica tries her best to impress Gautam's mother as she falls for Gautam and wants to get married. The unforeseen change in the characters and an unusual love triangle takes the story further.
Cocktail is one of the many films which is tailor-made for Saif Ali Khan and like always he performs brilliantly being his natural self. Be it the "OMG" expressions or the "confused lover" act, he is flamboyant throughout. Deepika Padukone's acting skills can once again be seen after 'Love Aaj Kal' and she is very much exciting and looks boombastic all the way. Diana Penty is new and looks like one but her cuteness wins hearts and nobody wants to notice her cold expressions throughout the scenes. Dimple Kapadia and Boman Irani have little roles to play and they do justice. Randeep Hooda is good but what a waste of an incredible actor.
The film has a very big label attached to it - "written by Imtiaz Ali" which eventually making people curious about the storyline as it is coming out of one of the finest storyteller's bag. "The story is not at all a new tale to tell but a stale 'cocktail' served in a new refined bottle". The film has numeous scenes giving you a Deja Vu of the 2009 blockbuster 'Love Aaj Kal' by Imtiaz Ali (it is said that Imtiaz has written Cocktail before LAK and we can surely say why he decided to make LAK over it). The screenpay is dull, unable to form the story and the characters till the interval. The first half lacks pace and it just drags making the viewers hungry for their "pop-corns" but second half picks up pace as the emotions of the characters comes out well (or the pop-corns does the magic?). Pritam's music is loved by everyone and it'll top the chartbusters for some more days. Homi Adajania's direction lacks something that Imtiaz Ali has and it shows very well.
Cocktail is a timepass film for the youth where you go and enjoy what you're served and even feel the characters as they look very real (it's Love Kal Parso btw). It is not a great film which is not to be missed rather it is just another love story which lacks spark, pace and yes, the "spirit" which transforms this COCKTAIL into a MOCKTAIL.
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