‘Haseen Dillruba’ movie review: A ‘Gone Girl’ gone wrong

This Vinil Mathew directorial has the aesthetics of a raunchy B film, and has a crime-thriller premise on the centre, leading to one thing that appears cluttered and inconsequential

What’s with Taapsee Pannu and her everlasting pursuit to find the appropriate “husband materials”? We noticed her being indecisive and conflicted over whom to decide on, finally settling for Robbie (Abishek Bahchan) and ending the chapter along with her ex-boyfriend Vicky (Vicky Kaushal), in Manmarziyan. In Haseen Dillruba, Taapsee finds herself in an analogous state of indecisiveness over two males; one she needs and the one she settles for. In fact, it’s not a query directed in the direction of Taapsee however Kanika Dhillon, the author of those two movies. For, Haseen Dillruba comes throughout as a Manmarziyan redux — solely lots much less cooler and extra messier.

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The idea of ‘organized’ marriage is a typical string connecting these two. In contrast to Rumi, Rani Kashyap (Taapsee Pannu, one of many two good issues in Haseen Dillruba; the opposite one being Vikrant Massey) appears to be sorted. A minimum of in her head. She desires a banda who’s six-foot tall, well-built, often humorous and an avid reader of Dinesh Pandit’s novels. Given the organized marriage set-up, she solely will get the five-foot eight-inch engineer banda Rishabh Saxena (Vikrant Massey). Rishu, as he’s identified, can repair something. When he involves see Rani for the primary time, she asks him to repair the ceiling fan. And… he does. Later we all know that the one factor he can’t repair is his marriage.

Haseen Dillruba

  • Solid: Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, Harshvardhan Rane and Aditya Srivastava
  • Director: Vinil Mathew
  • Storyline: A newly married couple goes by means of all of the appropriate points concerned in an ‘organized’ marriage till the spouse turns into the prime suspect of her husband’s demise.

Rani hails from Delhi from an prosperous, ‘fashionable’ household with whom she shares all the things together with her intercourse life, or the dearth of it. Rishu, alternatively, is a well-mannered, simpleton from Jwalapur whose thought of affection is that this: getting his spouse’s identify tattooed. Is that this Kanika’s thought of how small city guys are? We aren’t certain. Rishu is a traditional case of somebody marrying exterior their ‘standing’. “Who desires to maneuver from Delhi and stay in Jwalapur,” asks Rani.

The problems crop up sooner. Rani and Rishu don’t consummate their marriage they usually get more and more awkward, bodily; she doesn’t take part within the every day home chores…the saas bahu varieties, you get the drift. All of the drama between Rani and her in-laws is written across the very thought of organized marriages, which is a yay, however does it serve any function to the general proceedings? We aren’t certain. The ‘different’ man in Haseen Dillruba comes from the intrusion of Neel (Harshvardhan Rane), Rishu’s cousin.

Neel is all the things Rishu isn’t and there’s a working commentary on masculinity, which is irrelevant. Rani is immediately taken by Neel and she or he takes it a step additional. Like Manmarziyan, there’s an extramarital affair right here too. All that is tremendous however the principle concern with Haseen Dillruba is its inconsistency. The tonal shift — from a home comedy, to a raunchy B film, to a sinister plot — doesn’t look like a seamless transition. You by no means, not even for as soon as, get inside any of the characters’ heads and it’s only laughable after we see Rishu’s sinister intentions.

In reality, the whole plot round Rishu’s homicide — which is the opening scene — looks as if an afterthought on Kanika’s half, simply to keep away from any references to Manmarziyan. The best way scenes lower between the previous and current homicide investigation (in fact, Aditya Srivastava performs an inspector) generally leaves a jarring impact.

In all its absurdity, the movie looks as if it was born out of a mouthwatering conceit, one thing Drishyam 2 utilised to reap the utmost advantages. It includes a novel thought; a twist that’s primarily based totally on a tool. However the factor is, when it arrives, the practice has already left the station.

Haseen Dillruba is at the moment streaming on Netflix

 

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