Andaaz
Saw the movie Andaaz on the first day of its release.
Crazy movie. Gets on my list of the worst ever films made in Bollywood.

Synopsis
This movie is about the friendship between Raj (Akshay Kumar) and Kaajal (Lara Dutta). They are childhood friends, and Raj has a psychological problem with his legs, whereby he thinks he cannot walk without braces that he acquired after a childhood accident. In a scene remniscent of Forrest Gump; breaking braces et all, he starts walking normally. Akshay dreams of becoming a pilot as Lara is fascinated with flying. They grow up to be great friends, and Akshay doesnt seem to find the need to convey his feelings about his love towards Lara to her, as he thinks that she already knows about it.
He moves off to train as an IAF pilot (even though all the planes shown are private ones). By the time he comes back, he gets to know that Lara has found her prince charming, Karan Singhania (Aman Verma). After Lara's marriage to Aman, broken hearted Akshay goes over to Europe (he mentions Europe to his brother; but they shot the locales of South Africa).
Here he meets Jiya (Priyanka Chopra), who immediately falls in love with him. He is not so fast to return her affection, but slowly falls in line. When everything seems to be going fine, Lara reenters his life, and now he is in a fix.

Analysis
The first half of the movie breezes along, with some bad songs. Lara looks bad mostly throughout the movie. She reminds one of Sushmita Sen, who looks absolutely gorgeous in Western outfits, and completely pedestrian in Traditional Indian ones. Towards the end of the movie, she looks absoulutely horrible, given the tradition of Hindi film heroines to dress traditionally after they are married. Priyanka Chopra is gorgeous in most of the scenes, but she needs a good director/cinematographer to get the right angles on her face. Akshay Kumar seems to go towards his Khiladi days of a non-actor in the first half of the film. The second half of the film mostly sees him moping.
Seeing the ultra-modernistic ex-Miss Universe / ex-Miss Worlds mouthing dialogues like "Vidhwao kaa shaadi karna aaj bhi bhartiya samaaj me paap maana jaata hai" raises quite a few laughs after seeing them mouth dialogues like "The new Indian woman is second to none..." in various contests.
Johny Lever comes over to try to give some comic relief. The only relief we get is when he actually leaves the scene.
The songs of the movie too come at alarming intervals.

Technique
Director Raj Kanwar, the skipper of the ship flounders amazingly throughout. He should realise that the days of Deewana, Laadla etc. are gone, and he does need actual stories to make a movie.
The story is credited to him, and the screenplay to Robin Bhatt and Shyam Goel. The script is so corny, you feel as if the director was caught in a time warp, and got out at the wrong end.
Cinematography by Ishwar Bidri is good. Jainendra Jain's dialogues need to be heard to be disbeleived. Choreography by Raju Khan and Baba Yadav is no great shakes. Nadeem Shravan's music leaves a lot to be desired except for one-two songs.

Verdict
Would I recommend this movie to someone?
Are you crazy. Avoid it at all costs. 25 % of the theater was empty after 2 hours. The last movie that I can remember being so bad is probably "Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya" by the same producer Suneel Darshan. Take my advice, avoid it at all costs. If you want to watch Priyanka wearing some skimpy clothes, go get a film magazine, it would be less taxing to your brain, and you would save on the fees for the shrink.