You watch the trailer of this movie and you want to watch the movie. It is that promising. Also, after a long drought on the Marathi movie scene, even a stray cloud promises welcome showers.
Unfortunately, the trailer parcels most of the tastiest morsels from the movie. Beyond that, it's mostly plastic dabba, butter-paper, brown-paper.
The pitch is promising but the movie doesn't keep up to the promise. It infuriates to deceive.
On the positives. No songs! That's good!
There is a ton of funny repartee that would provoke anything from a grin to a satisfying cackle and a few characters have cracked their roles to perfection. Satya (the lead) has a whip sharp funny with-it grandma and a father who is unintentionally very funny. Savi, too, has a crazy funny younger brother who is way over-the-top but carries it off well.
Unfortunately, the liberal sprinkling of laughs is unable to salvage a badly executed movie. Many of the scenes ought to be cut by the censors simply for the decibel levels.
The bigger tragedy, here, is the waste of an interesting theme. A girl from a conservative background suggesting that she wants a trial live-in relationship with the boy before she goes aye-nay. This, by itself, is an idea worthy of being explored down a few interesting routes, but this movie stays so superficial that it barely grazes the skin, never mind digging down and peeking into the soul of what might make a semi-arranged relationship tick.
Even with a generous 2h10 runtime, it seems like the movie never gets time to dive deep enough to understand what makes the couple fall in love with each other, walk away from each other, and in double-quick time, get back with each other.
Coming from the man who has directed Harishchandrachi Factory and Elizabeth Ekadashi, it seems that directing a serio-rom-com is an art that's a lot more difficult to pull off than most people would give it credit for.
I'll say (with multiple caveats)...watch it. Maybe. On TV. DVR. FF the loud scenes.
Unfortunately, the trailer parcels most of the tastiest morsels from the movie. Beyond that, it's mostly plastic dabba, butter-paper, brown-paper.
The pitch is promising but the movie doesn't keep up to the promise. It infuriates to deceive.
On the positives. No songs! That's good!
There is a ton of funny repartee that would provoke anything from a grin to a satisfying cackle and a few characters have cracked their roles to perfection. Satya (the lead) has a whip sharp funny with-it grandma and a father who is unintentionally very funny. Savi, too, has a crazy funny younger brother who is way over-the-top but carries it off well.
Unfortunately, the liberal sprinkling of laughs is unable to salvage a badly executed movie. Many of the scenes ought to be cut by the censors simply for the decibel levels.
The bigger tragedy, here, is the waste of an interesting theme. A girl from a conservative background suggesting that she wants a trial live-in relationship with the boy before she goes aye-nay. This, by itself, is an idea worthy of being explored down a few interesting routes, but this movie stays so superficial that it barely grazes the skin, never mind digging down and peeking into the soul of what might make a semi-arranged relationship tick.
Even with a generous 2h10 runtime, it seems like the movie never gets time to dive deep enough to understand what makes the couple fall in love with each other, walk away from each other, and in double-quick time, get back with each other.
Coming from the man who has directed Harishchandrachi Factory and Elizabeth Ekadashi, it seems that directing a serio-rom-com is an art that's a lot more difficult to pull off than most people would give it credit for.
I'll say (with multiple caveats)...watch it. Maybe. On TV. DVR. FF the loud scenes.
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