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Movie Review: Sanam Teri Kasam is a Senseless Sob Story

With its cliched bad-boy-meets-good-girl script, Sanam Teri Kasam is hardly worth a visit to the cinema. 

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The soul of a film is supposed to be its script – a story that needs to be told and deserves to be heard.

But no such artistic canons and moral shackles can be imposed on Sanam Teri Kasam. It can very well exist in a vacuous universe devoid of interest or attention.

Teeming with badly written characters whining in misery, such absurdity must have an expiry date but this film is unpalatable even in it’s allegedly “best before” phase.

This messy misadventure helmed by director duo Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru is plain silly and that is frankly its undoing. Pakistani actress Mawra Hocane plays a “Vibhuti”, a bespeckled girl so weighed down by archaic notions of morality and obedience to parents that she is never allowed to breathe easy.

Saraswati or “Saru” as she is called must urgently get married. But oh the tragedy – she is a behenji and so no one agrees to do the saat pheras with her.

Saru’s sister is a mean witch taunting ‘poor Saru’ over her looks. The whole family is after Saru to ‘ensnare’ a man. No one quite knows why an unreasonably strict father who chides Saru for reading romantic poems is all cool about his younger daughter‘s love affair. All hell it seems must break loose on Saru and us, the hapless viewers!

Soon Saru has a chance meeting with Mr Abs. Well I am sure Telugu actor Harshvardhan Rane is worth a lot more but here he is nothing more than his six pack and bludgeoning biceps and triceps.

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With its cliched bad-boy-meets-good-girl script, Sanam Teri Kasam is hardly worth a visit to the cinema. 
Mawra Hocane and Harshvardhan Rane in a scene from Sanam Teri Kasam. (Photo: Sanam Teri Kasam’s Facebook page)

The story and these lacklustre characters are of interest to no one but the fact that for 155 mins we have to tolerate tears and resultant bull shit coming our way means I must feel sorry for myself and for the other unsuspecting victims.

This khichdi of unreasonable parents, juvenile delinquent turned body-builder and Ms Self pity is loathsome, long and drags till the very end.

The song Kheech Meri Photo wants to establish that behind every seemingly normal woman is an “embarrassment” and that is only a glass of bhang away but this is the least of our concerns.

Mawra Hocane is gorgeous and looks like she can act but she deserves a much better film. Really! Saru is the most miserable and tiresome of female characters to have come in a Bollywood film in a long long time.

And for the sake of Harshvardhan Rane’s chiseled body I shall do him a favour and reserve my judgement on him.

Chill at home and wait for Sanam Teri Kasam to come on TV. It would seem far more appealing with the remote in hand when we are free to surf channels.

I’ll give it 1 QUINT out of 5.

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