Atypical narration, unusual characters, lots of colour and good music are some of the significant features of Shaad Ali's films and his latest "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom", releasing Friday, promises the same.

Starring A-list actors - Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta and Lara Dutta, this is Ali's third film. His earlier two releases - "Saathiya" and "Bunty Aur Babli" - were huge hits.

Set in London, "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" is essentially a love story.

Rikki Thukral (Abhishek Bachchan) and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta) are forced to share a table in a crowded café at a London station and they have to bear each other for two hours. While Rikki is born in Bhatinda and lives in London, Alvira is more Brit than the Queen herself, however with Lahori blood in her veins.

Perfect setting for the start of a love-story but there is a small hitch. Both of them are engaged and have come to pick up their fiancés who are coming by the same train.

But the train gets delayed and they end up telling each other their "how I met my fiancé" stories to kill time.

Rikki met his fiancé Anaida (Lara Dutta) at The Ritz (Paris), the same night that Princess Diana and Dodi walked out of the hotel and into the paparazzi.

Alvira, a princess by nature, discovers her prince at Madame Tussaud's. When a gigantic wax model of Superman falls from the ceiling, Alvira is a sitting target. But Steve (Bobby Deol), a lawyer by profession, saves her life but steals her heart. They fall in love...

Stories unfold, time passes, the two strangers start enjoying each other's company and their backgrounds become inconsequential.

A snoot, Alvira is a Pakistani Brit but doesn't mind the company of the downtown boy Rikki. While Rikki is crooked, earthy, and rakish and dabbles in various businesses, Alvira is prim-n-proper, wannabe blue blood and an assistant manager at House of Fraser. None of these details matter and they get alarmingly attracted to each other!

Their brief encounter creates a complicated quadrangle... Rikki and Alvira have gotten themselves and Steve and Anaida into a lovely mess.

To get out of it both of them bend over backwards, thinking quickly and dancing around each other's emotions. After all when you're playing musical chairs with love, there's nothing you can do but Jhoom barabar jhoom.

Most of the biggies this year got a lukewarm response at the box office and all eyes are set on "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" as Ali has so far lived up to everybody's expectations.

Will he be third time lucky?

Music is the soul of all Bollywood films and the songs of "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" are already a rage, increasing people's eagerness to watch the film.