CAST: Ahan Shetty, Tara Sutaria, Saurabh Shukla
DIRECTOR: Milan Luthria
BLUF
Mussoorie boy Ishana (Ahan Shetty) falls in love with a local politician’s daughter Ramisa (Tara Sutaria). But this is not your simple Rich Girl – Poor Boy story though
THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES
The film is the remake of the 2018 Telugu film, RX 100, which was based on a real incident.
The clear objective of the movie is to launch Ahan Shetty and the film makes no qualms about it.
Though till the interval it looks like a typical love story of a poor boy’s romance with a rich girl, who appears to have been forcefully married off to her father’s choice. Halfway through the movie, the movie takes a sudden curve off the beaten track.
IN THE KNOW
Ahan Shetty looks convincing in his passionate, angry lover boy look. He definitely fits the narrative and the character graph of Ishana with great effort and it impacts the credibility of the script.
However, it is the dialogue writing which seems not only outdated for 2021 but also highly 1980’s Bollywood rehashed that dates the movie to another era of filmmaking.
It’s as if the production team dug writers out of their graves to ask them to write a carbon-dated script.
True you are trying to portray Ahan as an action hero, but let’s get real- in the world of Vidyut Jamwals, Tiger Shroffs, and Hrithik Sexy Roshan- Ahan will need a much deeper graph to create his niche.
the film’s writer Rajat Aroraa (screenplay and dialogues) and director Milan Luthria spend too much time on having Ahan spit hefty dialogues, stuck in some sort of a time warp, and plot deviations that just don’t make sense to the main storyline. It is Behance without a good site map.
Saurabh Shukla is lovely and convincing as the father of our action hero.
Tara Sutaria as Ishana’s love interest Ramisa looks the same model in every frame and has a specific shampoo advert expression throughout the movie whether she’s singing, dancing romancing, or having a meltdown. Obviously, the screenplay has no space for her to be something more substantial.
On the whole, leaves much wanted
WHAT WE LOVED
Ahan has potential
WHAT WE MISSED
Ahhh… A credible narrative and execution.
Dialogues with the times
