Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Saw MPKDH on the 2nd day of its release as I had some commitments on Friday. Wished I had got some non-cancellable plans for the whole week, which would have made this review unnecessary.

Synopsis
As has been widely advertised, this is a remake of Rajhsree's Chitchor, and the promos of this film reveal the entire plot anyway.
Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor grating on the nerves as usual, and with a very puffed up face probably due to some late night partying) is the daughter of Satyaprakash (Pankaj Kapoor in a nondescript role) and Susheela (Himani Shivpuri, who has made an art of going over the board). Hmm.. I wonder how a guy like Pankaj Kapoor and a female like Himani Shivpuri can have a daughter who looks like Kareena (Seems one of their neighbour is upto something shady. Cannot elaborate on that one as they did not show any neighbours).
Roopa(Tanaaz Currim), who is Kareena's sister married and settled in the US; chooses a big businessman named Prem for her sister, and informs her family about his scheduled visit to India. Enter Prem (Hrithik Roshan looking great unlike in Mujhse Dosti Karoge) who enters their house and later their hearts. He woos Kareena and turns her scantily clad friends and irritating pets in his favour.
Everything seems to be going hunky dory till one day Tanaaz mails her father saying that Prem's schedule got postponed and he would be coming over in two more days (The way Pankaj Kapoor get excited when he gets mails from Tanaaz seems hilarious. He also seems to be waiting in front of the computer screen the whole day long just so that he could announce a new mail to Himani. I guess he must be excited even by spam. I think I should add him to my movie review mailing list. As an aside, his mail id is shown as satyaprakash@yahoo.co.in and Tanaaz's is roopabeti@yahoo.com :). These are the kind of things you start noticing when the pace of the film falters.). This throws everything out of gear, and Himani starts acting weirdly with Hrithik (who, it turns out is also named Prem, and works for the real McCoy Prem).
Then comes into picture the other Prem (Abhishek Bachchan looking really good and clean shaven for a change) who also falls head over heels in love with Kareena. He comes with a mother (Reema Lagoo) and P.A. (Johnny Lever) in tow. When Hrithik realises that everyone wants Kareena to get wedded to his boss, he tries to move out of the picture.

Analysis
The only person who will probably benefit through this movie is Abhishek. He puts in a restrained performance, and is a pleasure to watch. Kareena looks jaded in most of the movie. Hrithik looks very lean and tries to show off his body a lot, which goes against him. Moreover, his character is supposed to be loud and over the top,unlike any character he has played before. He looks definitely uncomfortable doing this. The computer generated effects for the pet parrot (Raja) and the dog (Johnny) seem out of place and totally unnecessary. They tend to get on your nerves. Johnny Lever is not funny in the short role that he has. Pankaj Kapoor impresses us by his performance. Himani Shivpuri is still in the 1960's age and her act leaves us cold.

Technique
Sooraj Barjatya seems totally out of his element for his first film which is not a family drama. Lots of stuff seems to have been put in just to try all genres. He puts all the cast in scantily clad clothes (except thankfully Pankaj, Himani and Reema :))
New Zealand and Mauritius pass of as Sundernagar. The colleges seem totally out of place, as you can see all the students in the background as Kiwis, and all the cars are models not even available in India. When Hrithik sees the scenery in Sundernagar and comments that he has travelled all over India and never seen such a beautiful place, it seems downright hilarious.
The songs slow down the pace of the movie, which is already too long to be comfortable (3.5 hours). They seem to come in at the most inappropriate times, and except a couple of them, they are all loud and jarring.
Rajan Kinagi's cinematography is good, but when you have such good locales, that is but natural. Bijon Dasgupta's sets are plain bad.

Verdict
Would I recommend this movie to someone?
Go in if you are a Hrithik, Abhishek (there aren't many) or Kareena fan. Beware of the hackneyed plot, songs and length of the movie. You might end up liking it inspite of its deficiencies.
Sorry for the length of this review, I got carried away due to the movie's length.