It was a terrible mistake to watch this movie. I actually am able enough to tolerate almost any kind of movie and I really feel I’m good at it. But Mohit Suri’s latest flick, Hamari Adhuri Kahaani, was way beyond my level of tolerance. I feel bad to say this as I really admire Vidya Balan and her acting, but even her being in the movie couldn’t make me sit happily till the end. I just couldn’t wait for the movie to get over.
The story primarily revolves around Vasudha Prasad (Vidya Balan) and her horrible life. She is a grim young mother who raises her son alone for five years and is seen always crying, rubbing her mangalsutra, lying to her little son, and sporting the values of a Bharatiya naari and its sanskar. She is a florist at a five-star hotel who keeps talking about flowers, fallen leaves, sunlight and sadness. She hates it that we “kill” flowers to make our lives and surroundings beautiful. All I want to ask her is, if you really hate it, why do you even work as a florist? Find some other job, lady. Also another thing is that struck me about her character is that, if she is really into sanskar and all, why would she keep taking out her mangalsutra every now and then? Isn’t it ‘not allowed’ in our sanskar? Whatever!
Now, Vasudha’s husband is Hari (Rajkumar Rao) who is the villain of the movie because he is a maniac, forced his wife to get his name tattooed on her arm and then, a year into their marriage, disappeared. He supposedly has been trapped by Naxal in Chattisgarh. Hence, the disappearance. Rao’s sole purpose is the movie is to go screaming in every frame and act psychic. Even though the character given to him might be irritating, but his acting skills are worth a slow clap.
Moving on to the third I-don’t-know-why-important character, Emraan Hashmi, who plays the role of Aarav Ruparel, is a not-suited-billionaire owner of 108 hotels. He has a wooden face with pain etched on it, at least that’s what the character is supposed to look like. However, I could not find any kind of emotion on his face. He has been his usual self with no improvements in acting at all. He falls in love with Vasudha and tries to give her all the happiness in this world (which he did not get even after buying 108 hotels) by marrying her. What a noble deed! Every word he utters in the movie is like a declaration of eternal romance, thanks to Shagufta Rafique’s dialogues, which makes me wonder – how she could write them? I mean, even the age old movies of ‘80s didn’t have such pathetic written dialogues.
There’s also Aarav’s business advisor and friend Apurva (Prabal Punjabi), whose only purpose is to remind Aarav that he’s late for a flight. He is also the one who doesn’t understand a single thing going on in Aarav’s mind and trust me, neither does the audience.
A love story is supposed to tug at your heartstrings and make you fall in love with it. But Hamari Adhuri Kahaani does its exact opposite. It is an empty film with no real acting and fake dialogues. The actors are confused in the movie and it’s a lost tale of God-knows-what, not love for sure.
The music of Hamari Adhuri Kahaani is nothing noteworthy except for the title track and maybe, that’s the reason it has been broken into pieces and played at regular intervals in the second half. The credit on the music front only goes to Mithoon and Arijit Singh because it is for their voices that audience could actually wait for the songs. Otherwise, there’s nothing else left.
The other thing that got me upset is that the filmmakers faked Bastar region. They showed an entire garden like place in Bastar with hills surrounded and with amazing trees all over. But in real, Bastar doesn’t even look like that. The place is really full of landmines and is dangerous, no flowers, no hills in Chattisgarh, nothing. I don’t understand why they would show something that doesn’t even exist.
Mohit Suri could have done something better considering his past works. But this one was a complete failure and I would never recommend it to anybody, not even my enemies (if I had any).
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