CAST: RAJ KUMMAR RAO, KRITI SANON, RATNA PATHAK SHAH, PARESH RAWAL, APARSAKTI KHURANA
DIRECTED BY: ABHISHEK JAIN
BLUF: Dhruv Shikhar (Rajkummar Rao) falls in love with Anya Mehra (Kriti Sanon), and wants to marry her. The biggest hurdle he faces is that he has not told his lady love that he is an orphan and has no family to call his own. Especially because Anya wants a loving family to marry into, ribboned up with a cute doggo. Dhruv decides to create one instead by roping in Purushottam Mishra (Paresh Rawal) and Dipti Kashyap (Ratna Pathak Shah) to be his adoptive fam. ‘Hum Do Hamare Do‘ is produced by Dinesh Vijan and his Maddock Films; directed by Abhishek Jain, and written by Prashant Jha.
THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES
The movie has a premise that it wants to convey. Real families are not only people connected to you by blood. Families are people who care for you and for whom you matter. The premise is surrounded by an ordinary story made special by extraordinary actors. Rajkummar Rao and Kriti Sanon are actors that can carry any story convincingly, and having Paresh Rawal and Ratna Pathak Shah makes the combo dynamite. Aparshakti Khurana as Shunty, Dhruv’s best friend, is now a mandatory spoke in the wheels of a Hindi movie- the universal friend.
IN THE KNOW
The story may show a bit of a hyperactive family scene and it may be a shock to many international viewers but in India, marriages are between families and not only those two consenting adults. In Indian movies, there is also a deep glorification of people messing in other people’s business as if it were their own. The boundaries are thin. And in some cases, non-existent. Sachin-Jigar’s music for ‘Hum Do Hamare Do’ is exceptionally unmemorable. The lyrics of the songs are passable and thankfully peripheral to the narrative. Dev Rao Jadhav’s editing is satisfactory. The camerawork by Director of Photography Amalendu Choudhary is standard and has no exceptional angles.
WHAT WE LOVED:
The premise
The actors
WHAT WE MISSED
Better writing, better music
A deeper connection.
