Cast: Prit Kamani, Kavya Thapar, Sapna Sand, manoj Pahwa, Omkar Kulkarni, Eisha Singh

Director: Ratna Sinha

We saw a slate of unwatchable films in the recent times hitting the theaters with super hype but then comes along this under-promoted, contemporary story of small-town kids and their aspirations from Anubhav Sinha’s wife Ratna Sinha.

Set in picturesque Mussoorie, Dad (Manoj Pahwa) is the regular small-town bank manager who rides a scooter and regularly lectures his family about how to budget and save. While his responsible older son takes classes to help with the family income, flamboyant second son Yudi (Prit Kamani) cannot wait to break into the high-class life. That would mean looking with condescension at the regular people Kishanchand College and planning to ride through the rich gates of elite school -Oakwood High, and the heart of social media queen Saisha Oberoi (Kavya Thapar).

Yudi’s dad and his mom Jaya  (Sapna Sand), pool their savings to send him to Oakwood, Yudi, who aspires to be ‘Mussoorie’s sabse cool launda’, is ecstatic.

Meanwhile, his bestie Pannu Chawla (Omkar Kulkarni), son of an eatery owner, would rather rap than be “a halwai”.

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Director Ratna Sinha who has also written the story, keeps it youthful with Yudi’s pranks to catch Saisha’s eye. His cockiness does bring him into Saisha’s but he has a condition to fulfil before he can be with her. Saisha needs Yudi to hook up with her rival Aisha (Eisha Singh). ‘Hook up with Ash, break up with her, break her heart and come to me.’

So Yudi woos Ash.

Then come the inevitable outcomes.

And with the rap song, “Tu kaun hai pehchan le”, there’s the gradual awakening to make restitution for his foolishness.

The screenplay by Yash Keswani and Sima Agarwal is very predictable, but in that banal narrative is extremely warm and fuzzy.

The music (Himesh Reshammiya) and overall cinematography keep the mood young and flashy.

But the album produces no chartbusters. The dialogues by Suraj Gianani are peppy although there are too many references to “bathroom” and “su-su in the swimming pool” and the usual rhyming lines like, “Cool and funny like Bugs Bunny” and “Chawla-bawla”.

We did not see a lot of promos of this movie, so we guess the simple story with no expectations of it does come off as a huge surprise especially when it hits fresh.

Overall, great performances. And a breezy execution.