Behen Hogi Teri
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shruti Haasan, Gautam Gulati, Gulshan Grover
Rated: 4/10
Why, what, howIJ Really, there are some films which throw these words at you with such force that you balk at their audacity to even be on the screen.
Now, this one with these three questionables is helmed by an actor of worth in Rajkummar Rao. He is good at whatever he does on screen and tries his best to save this one too. But besides him not being the guy for a ghunna small-town boy in love with his neighbour’s daughter, there was also the fact that he was treading on a script so razor thin that the plummet was inevitable.
Yes, his love interest Shruti Haasan is stunningly beautiful and works well as the neighbour’s daughter, but she is given no other dimension to play out her role with any kind of gumption. The two do not create any romantic moments, none at all and yet the film is all about their moments. In fact she manages to stitch up some heart-warmers with the sidekick played by a little over the top Punjabi from Canada Kamlesh Gill but he is at best just a shadowy in and out fella in the film.
Together, and with a Yuvraj Singh lookalike (he is the guy to play the cricketer if there is ever a biopic on him) thrown in to heighten the confusion, this sadly un-happening and confused film makes you feel like uttering the titlegaali rather zor se in sheer frustration of having to sit through a thinly disguised social issue of making all boys and girls behens and bhais.
The subject does not warrant a full-scale film that too with otherwise respected actors like Rao and Darshan Zariwala who plays his father.
Actually it’s such a waste of talent here. Big baddies Ranjit and Gulshan Grover too are bundled into the film without a thought or reason to their characters. They neither evoke terror in your heart nor are they effectively funny, so you wonder why they are there at all. It’s a film with no thought to the story and hence, despite Rao’s valiant effort and Haasan’s beauty, fails at all levels.