![]() ![]() She has a couple of strong scenes, and wears her weight well. The only one who leaves an impression in this crowded-yet-slack film is Sanah Kapur, the real-life half-sister of Shahid, who plays a bride being used as part of a ‘deal’ between two business families. Shahid and Alia look good together, but there’s not very much else they manage between the two of them. It doesn’t help that he gets into a similar loop with the scenes he has with his real-life `papaji’, and there are several. He can be such a natural charmer, but here the charm offensive is not allowed to stop, and finally just overtakes him. Shahid suffers from a badly-written character. ![]() And using her own name so soon in? There’s a problem right there. But here, she’s been made to play so determinedly cute that she sinks into a set of mumbled mannerisms. Underneath it all, she knows she is real, and she can’t help letting us in on her. Costumery and puffery may work with other actors, but it is wrong for Alia. Sequences meant to showcase actual planes, and flights of fancy, but looping no loops. Songs dressed up and going nowhere, saying nothing.
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