Manmarziyaan Review: Just like Love, it is Complicated, Messy, Confusion and Flawed.

An ace director like Anurag Kashyap decides to helm the director's hat for something that is out of his comfort zone i.e. Romance and delivers a beautifully created mess called Manmarziyaan. The movie  stars Vicky Kaushal, Taapsee Pannu and  Abhishek Bachchan in the lead roles. 
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Have you ever thought you'd fall in love with Abhishek Bachchan? Well surprisingly, Abhishek infuses an unusual charm to Robbie and aces his act. But it is the terrific acts of the Vicky Kaushal and Taapsee that really holds the movie together. They bring life to Vicky and Rumi and their chemistry is undeniably crackling. The terrific leads are ably supported by  Vikram Kochchar, Pavan Malhotra, Poonam Shah among others.

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Kashyap does an excellent job in bringing to life the complexities of modern day love. The movie does have vibes of Bhansali's classic, 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam' leading to the plot appearing a bit far fetched and predictable. Kashyap's terrific first half leaves u wanting for more from the second half but the second half falters giving way to a lot of melodrama. Kanika Dhillon's writing is good but the screenplay and dialogues are absolutely bang on. Amit  Trivedi does an exemplary job in the music department and all the songs are nice to hear and dwells with narration with 'Daryaa', 'Sachchi Mohabbat', 'Choch Ladiyaan' being personal favourites. The editing, the cinematography and DOP capture the essence of Punjab very well.

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On the whole, Manmarziyaan is absolutely like love: beautiful, complicated, messy, confusing and flawed but it is also one of the only movies where Kashyap's mingling of critical and commercial cinema come together and deliver something that shall  stay  with you for sometime even after you leave the theatre. It has a niche audience and shall click with the people who are hardcore takers of romance. I  am going with 3.75 stars for the movie. The business of Manmarziyaan shall be somewhere between 35-45 crores.
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P.S. U simply cannot miss the lovely banter between Rumi and Robbie in the second half. It is simple, sweet and charming.

  

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  1. Artika Srivastava15 September 2018 at 00:34

    Hmm... Your reviews are great help for people like me... Who are very choosy to watch movies... Will watch, as sensible romantic movies are always on list...

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