If I could I would have issued a travel advisory to all those heading to a cinema hall to catch this week’s latest release. Sanam Re can cause severe mental fatigue and depression. Keeping a one-arm distance from it can shield you from witnessing director Divya Khosla Kumar’s vehicle of self-aggrandisement.
In the first 5 mins, she forces herself on us by dancing to a sizzle-less item number and soon after busies herself to misdirect this two and a half hour ordeal. We meet an old man reeking of dementia, asking boulders and street dogs to smile so he can click a picture. It suffices to say that this is Rishi Kapoor’s most embarrassing outing after Besharam.
Yami is Dull, Pulkit Should Choose Better
Pulkit Samrat might look like Salman Khan on a bad day, but now he acts like a John Abraham with a stomach ache. In the absence of a single decent expression, a perpetual scowl sits on his face while he tries hard to negotiate his life around his tyrant boss (Manoj Joshi).
A call from mummyji gets him to his hometown where an unnecessary flashback sequence awaits us! Dadu dear is shown telling little Aakash that his soul mate would be found living down the lane some 500 steps from their house. Aakash marches down counting his steps to find not one, but two girls in the vicinity. The rest they say is Sanam Re!
Candy Crush Saved My Day
Patchy editing means we are frequently jolted by a change of location from Mumbai to Canada, to Ladakh with some forgettable music as baggage. But the inane plot twists never cease to amaze! When will filmmakers realise that inserting little kids to increase the cuteness quotient of their films will not make it the roaring success that Bajrangi Bhaijaan was. For that you need some lucid writing and we are painfully aware of the lack of it in this case.
It must take special talent to rope in comedian Bharti Singh and still not manage to make half a decent joke. There is really nothing to hold us to this movie. Fairness cream ad veteran Yami Gautam is dull and Pulkit Samrat for his own sake must choose better. I’ll give Sanam Re only half a Quint. I somehow survived only thanks to Candy Crush!