When this movie was released I wasn't expecting much from this film. Though there are positive reviews of this movie, but the first review I read was negative. When the film crossed its budget of INR 200 million and made marginal profit in India but crossed INR 500 million worldwide, I thought of giving it a go. The movie is based on a German author Nicolas Barreau's 2010 novel "The ingredients of love" which was not considered a great novel though a best-seller with a poor translation in English. The movie also has reminisces of eighties bollywood movie Saajan. The Director Ashwiny Iyer-Tiwari who started her career as a consultant to her husband's Nitesh Tiwari (Dangal fame) first movie Chillar party, subsequently made her debut with critically appreciated Nil Battey Sanatta. This triangular LOVE story is based in a small town of Bairelly in northern India narrated by lyricist Javed Akhtar. Bitti (Kriti Sanon) is a free spirited girl who finds the main protagonist of a novel Bareilly ki Barfi identifiable to her. The novel though written by Chirag Dubey (Ayushman Khuarana) a printing press owner is published under the name of his friend Pritam Vidrohi (Rajkumar Rao). Bitti wants to meet the author and seeks Chirag's help - who in turn pursues Pritam – a saree salesperson to pretend to be the author who wrote the novel. Chirag loves Bitti, and Bitti loves Vidrohi – the author, But Chirag is the real author of the novel. With many twists and turns, the triangular LOVE story finally ends on a predictable note. I should say that I liked the movie. It was light hearted and well paced. The narrative remains ahead of the nuances of falling into the traps of a routines triangular love story. All the characters are well crafted and have some depth. Kriti, Ayushman and Rajkumar have acted well. The side characters too have got a decent role. There are moments of mild smiles and laughter. Kriti carries the role well – there was a great chance of her to run over-board, but every time we feel she will overact this bit – she keeps it limited. The direction is good. The music is a bit of let-down with no humming tracks. If one does not have anything to do – seeing this movie would not harm much. It is a time pass light hearted movie. It is so surprising that this movie got extreme reviews – those who liked it rave about it – those who did not like it – crap about it. I would go with 6.5 out of 10
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