It’s the same movie Karan made with Ek Main Aur Ek Tu, Gori Tere Pyar Main, I Hate Luv Storys, and plenty others.īut this is also a Phantom film, part of the set of Dharma-Phantom co-productions, and Vikramaditya Motwane took a pass at the script. Two newish stars playing the leads, a bunch of cheap but familiar character actors surrounding them, a good sound track with at least one super catchy hit song (“Punjabi Wedding Song”), a first time director and long-time Karan mentee, and lots of trailer-friendly visuals mixed in, longing looks and loving moments and so on. In a lot of ways, this is your standard formula Dharma romance. I would never have thought to cast them together, just as I would never have thought to take these characters and put them in a rom-com, and yet it works.
Sid’s blankness feels like hidden depths, Pari’s mannerisms become charming and real instead of studied. But put them together, and they balance and enhance each other. While Sid’s is that he doesn’t try enough, comes off as blank more than anything. Pari’s weakness as an actor is that she tends to try too hard, to go too big. To have the gloss of fairy tale love over this difficult story, and to have this difficult reality under the fairy tale love.Īnd an equally unusual fit is Parineeti and Sidharth as co-stars. It’s an unusual fit, which, for me, adds to the power of the film.
And then there are other moments that are just old-fashioned Dharma romance. There are many moments of the film that are as real as anything in the fancy new Netflix shows. This is a movie that feels torn between art and popular. One of those movies that is less a love story and more a story of two lost souls helping each other be found. Well, this is a remarkable film! It’s actually a lot deeper than I expected, reminded me of Jab Harry Met Sejal more than anything.
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