1 Line Review: Go watch ‘Pyaar Ke Side Effects’, instead.
This movie is boring from the word go. Saket Chaudhary directed the evergreen Pyaar Ke Side Effects (PKSE) and after 8 years directed this one. Complete crap and a bore. No offence, I have watched PKSE 20 times (or may be more) and am willing to watch it any number of times when it comes on TV. Yes. But this one was a total waste.
Not sure where to start, since nothing was good. Last I saw Farhan Akhtar in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. I need not say anything else, wonder why he singed up for this movie. Average performance for an average plot. Vidya Balan has just bloated up like anything. From the very first scene till the end she always looked like an Aunty. All the dresses she wore made sure she did justice to the word Aunty. Her last movie Ghanchakkar was not that great but much better than this one. Even though Ram Kapoor reminds me of a TV serial only, he was good in his role. Vir Das has a short role and he did good too.
I guess the plot was not that great and unlike PKSE, SKSE did not have that much juice to make you laugh and cringe across evenly. Even though the first half of actually tolerable, the second half dragged like hell. The story took uneven turns and a major revelation at the climax was just too much. With a run time of 2 hours and 25 minutes, this movie was a torture. I suggest you watch it in passing when it appears on TV.
And then the songs of this movie! Totally forgettable, uninteresting and boring to the core. All of them. So much so that every time a song started I wished I could fast forward to get to the end. Except the last song during the credit rolls which was ok. I still don’t remember the song but it was peppy. And ya, you also get to see few behind the scenes in the end. That was more interesting than the entire film.
With few laugh and just a few interesting moments in the entire movie, this was a complete waste of my time. To recover from the boredom am watching Pyaar Ke Side effects again. Bye.
Good Review Aditya. Looks like, I can skip this movie 🙂
Totally! Skip it. It was a waste of time!! 🙁