Hum Do Hamare Do Evaluate: A promotional poster of the movie. (Picture courtesy: rajkummar_rao )
Forged: Kriti Sanon, Rajkummar Rao, Paresh Rawal, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aparshakti Khurrana
Director: Abhishek Jain
Ranking: 1.5 stars (out of 5)
A patchy script, unimaginative path and inconsistent performances queer the pitch for Hum Do Hamare Do. A profligate dramedy that fritters away some great benefits of an admittedly uncommon plot, all its calculations go amiss. Nothing that it proffers, regardless of how innocent and well-meaning it might sound, delivers a rounded sum that is sensible.
Even pure drivel is understood to have been saved when impressed lunacy and sustained comedian fervour have been thrown into the combination in the correct proportions. This comedy of error-prone, slipshod gags is desperately brief on these two important attributes.
On the coronary heart of Hum Do Hamare Do, streaming on Disney+Hotstar, are a younger man, performed by Rajkummar Rao, who will do all it takes to not lose the lady he loves and an previous loner, portrayed by Paresh Rawal, who missed the bus a few years in the past as a result of he developed chilly ft and continues to survive of a thwarted liaison.
The unfunny caper, director Abhishek Jain’s Hindi debut, revolves round a Chandigarh man who has no person to name his personal barring a greatest buddy who’s at all times at his beck and name. The enterprising buddy is the go-to man when the hero is at his wit’s finish, which is method too usually for his personal good.
The protagonist is launched as a boy in a quick prelude. The orphan works at a freeway dhaba for a person nicknamed Premi (Paresh Rawal). He’s handled properly sufficient by the employer however his life is a dead-end. A warm-hearted buyer (Ratna Pathak Shah) comes by and will get chatting with the boy.
On studying that he’s known as Baal Premi, she means that he ought to assume up a greater identify for himself. She ideas the kid generously and leaves. It’s apparent that Premi and the type girl will return to the boy’s life. Extra on that later.
Years go by. The boy, Dhruv, now a busy VR gaming whiz child who teaches impoverished youngsters in his free time, has an opportunity encounter with a contract vlogger, Anya Mehra (Kriti Sanon). The previous’s standoffish behaviour leaves the lady fuming. Certain sufficient, in step with the true custom of Bollywood rom-coms, love blossoms between the 2. However there’s a hitch.
Dhruv figures out that Anya desires of marrying a person who has a household and a canine. There’s a robust motive for her want. He, subsequently, goes in search of a pair of pretend mother and father. Together with his greatest pal Shanty (Aparshakti Khurrana) egging him on to go the entire hog, he does discover what he wants however not earlier than a number of hiccups.
The dhaba proprietor from the opening sequence – we’re instructed is full identify is Purushottam Mishra – and Deepti Kashyap, the lady whose kindness left a deep impression on the foundling within the self-same scene, agree, after some prodding, to faux to be Dhruv’s mother and father. However the previous man, who nonetheless rues the chance he missed to wed his sweetheart, has the tendency to go overboard when he has had one swig too many.
Awkward conditions outcome and threaten to derail Dhruv’s not so properly laid-out plans to worm his method into the hearts of the lady’s mother and father (Manu Rishi Chadha and Prachee Shah Pandya). Evidently, it is not a cakewalk. There’s a worthy match for Anya lurking within the background and Dhruv and Shanty have little or no time at their disposal to stall Anya’s impending betrothal with a bridegroom chosen by her mother and pop.
When the counterfeit mother and father meet the lady’s mom and father, who, too, aren’t ‘actual’ within the strictest sense, inevitable issues come up. However does the following rigmarole generate real hilarity? Under no circumstances. Using on a storyline that’s as insipid as it’s illogical, Hum Do Hamare Do is a meandering mess that depends closely on laboured humour and a solid of actors not absolutely in tune with the wants of the train.
Probably the most noteworthy efficiency in Hum Do Hamare Do is delivered by Kriti Sanon, who does her best possible to inject some life into the proceedings. She radiates allure and vitality. Each time one sees her on the display screen, one can’t assist feeling that she deserved a greater movie. Ditto for the spectacular Ratna Pathak Shah, who’s amazingly convincing as a girl known as upon to playact as a mom to a stranger. Sadly, neither the character she essays nor the movie that she is in comes wherever close to doing justice to her.
What of the male lead? Rajkummar Rao is saddled with the duty of salvaging a poorly written protagonist whose impulses, compulsions and selections border on the totally inexplicable. Why an grownup who has put the worst behind him and made successful of his life go for falsehood with the intention to marry his real love is past comprehension?
It requires an unusual diploma of charisma and unerring comedian timing to raise one thing as insubstantial and unappetising as Hum Do Hamare Do out of the muddle. No such rescue act materialises right here. Because the character has no entry to straws which can be robust sufficient to cling to and the actor has to reckon with extra questions than solutions, the movie flounders from the phrase go.
Even Paresh Rawal, a display screen performer of confirmed comedian prowess, is basically wasted in a job that dangles between the puerile and the depressing. That, the truth is, is true of the movie as a complete. It falls with a thud between two stools.
Hum Do Hamare Do is the kind of romp that relies upon wholly on guaranteeing a keen suspension of disbelief, which proves to be an unattainable objective for a screenplay that is aware of no higher. The going will get particularly powerful as a result of in its seek for a droll core that may maintain and go the space, the movie sinks right into a welter of half-baked formulations about organic broods, fractured households and cobbled-up clans.
However all of the ado, the numbers merely do not add up. Hum Do Hamare Do is at all times at sixes and sevens.