Plan A Plan B movie review: The Riteish Deshmukh, Tamannaah Bhatia starrer is tepid and flat
Plan A Plan B film forged: Riteish Deshmukh, Tamannaah Bhatia, Poonam Dhillon, Kusha Kapila
Plan A Plan B film director: Shashanka Ghosh
Plan A Plan B film score: One and a half stars
An uptight lawyer specialising in divorce, and a match-maker with a damaged coronary heart is a combo which spells rom com heaven. It’s the chalk and cheese precept. He’s suited-booted, his beard is neatly combed, and his shirts buttoned down. He wants the whole lot to be aligned neatly. She continues to be grieving for a misplaced love, makes use of ice cream as a panacea for all ills, and seems in fastidiously tousled hair-and-attire which will need to have taken a stylist hours to place collectively. They only occur to have co-working areas proper subsequent to one another, and sparks fly.
Correction. That’s what ought to have occurred. However neither Riteish Deshmukh, who has proved he has advantageous comedic bones many occasions over, nor Tamannaah Bhatia who’s able to being expressive, show any discernible chemistry: the digicam very decorously provides us the backs of their heads once they lastly get all the way down to canoodling, leaving us questioning: did they actually kiss?
It begins with Kaustubh Chougule (Deshmukh), aka Kosty, aka Caustic giving a lecture to some on the brink. She is from the North, he’s from the South, and that’s sufficient motive for our Kosty to enumerate the distinction between Bhangra and Bharatnatyam, ghee and coconut oil, and ‘pongal’ and ‘dangal’. Eh?
In the meantime, Nirali Vora (Bhatia), who runs a matrimonial enterprise together with her mum (Dhillon), is all for cementing cracks between warring {couples}, and has nothing however contempt for Kosty’s mantra for marriage, which he phrases as ‘bed room se boredom ka safar’. In flip, he scoffs at her ‘Matchmaking In The Time Of Tinder’ enterprise: why marry when you may simply do it?
Some effort has been put into the bits the place the 2 snarl at one another: you catch sight of the seminal quantity ‘Passionate Marriage’, and you understand that somebody has had the correct concept. I had hopes that there could be some zest to the proceedings, given the director has given us the pleasant ‘Khubsoorat’ and ‘Veere Di Marriage ceremony’. However as quickly because the attraction-despite-everything arc begins, the movie turns decisively tepid and flat, and the risible dialogues that one was ignoring up till then, begin changing into troublesome. When was the final time you heard the phrase ‘rakhail’ in jest? Not humorous.
