It is just another goofy and boring teenage romance story that we have seen too many times. To make it worse, it takes itself way too seriously. The first problem was casting. Swastima Khadka doesn't look like she is a teenager. Not at all. But the movie tries really hard to make her look like one. Had she performed in a bit better way, I would've bought some part of it. She is your typical young romance film heroine who doesn't care about your hero because he doesn't look so good and finally falls in love with him. It was so stale of a trope that I literally said "how many times do I have to see it again?".
What's wrong with most of the people who make teenage romance films in Nepal and Bollywood? Why do they portray teens as stupid nerds who think money and good looks are everything, have an obsessive fanboyish crush on an overrated popular celebrity? Why is that a must? Teens are quite rebellious and some can be totally foolish, arrogant and a self-destructive all at the same time. But, except for few, none of them are dumb enough to be like the characters in these type of stupid movies.
This movie embraces being dumb to its core. The character arcs and plot devices used in this movie are just the most obvious ones and predictable. All that differs is a much more ridiculous premise and the locations where they film it. To add more foolishness, it deviates from the main plot to give us some pseudo social awareness. That's how it was supposed to be likable? There are movies which are meant to give social messages. And they do it in a much better than this movie did, and if you want to do so, make it within the context.
There are some of the most boring and clichéd daddy's issues which felt cringy even in the 90s Bollywood films. And the songs are terrible and serve merely as a filler because this movie wasn't long enough for the garbage it was throwing on us. Then, the final moments were seemingly familiar to me. Yeah, it was a watered down version of the ending of "Pashupati Prasad". Then, I realized that it was written and directed by the same man who wrote and directed "Pashupati Prasad". It worked for Pashupati Prasad because you used the generic ideas in a totally different way there. Plus, Pashupati Prasad had a genuinely interesting story to be told. Not everything works everywhere. Just think of the twist ending like that of "The Sixth Sense" being shoehorned in "A Walk to Remember", or the themes of "Anand" being shoehorned in "Dil Toh Paagal Hai", or Mr. Bean's comedy being a theme of "Shutter Island". I just start feeling that Nepalese filmmakers have no sense and whatever good they do are merely coincidences, when I see two movies of the same person being comparable in a ridiculous manner like this.
After watching the performance of the male lead, I am just felt braindead. If you have seen films like Bachna Ae Haseeno, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, Anjaana Anjaani, Student of the Year, just mix them with the ending of Pashupati Prasad. You'll get this movie. Not saying they have been exactly copied but have a lot of similar cheesy stuff in the cheesier way.
I didn't get a chance to see this in theatres. I was quite upset. Then it finally released on YouTube, and I watched it. Then, I felt that I was lucky to not get a chance to see it in the theatres.
Score : 0/10, Grade : F.
What's wrong with most of the people who make teenage romance films in Nepal and Bollywood? Why do they portray teens as stupid nerds who think money and good looks are everything, have an obsessive fanboyish crush on an overrated popular celebrity? Why is that a must? Teens are quite rebellious and some can be totally foolish, arrogant and a self-destructive all at the same time. But, except for few, none of them are dumb enough to be like the characters in these type of stupid movies.
This movie embraces being dumb to its core. The character arcs and plot devices used in this movie are just the most obvious ones and predictable. All that differs is a much more ridiculous premise and the locations where they film it. To add more foolishness, it deviates from the main plot to give us some pseudo social awareness. That's how it was supposed to be likable? There are movies which are meant to give social messages. And they do it in a much better than this movie did, and if you want to do so, make it within the context.
There are some of the most boring and clichéd daddy's issues which felt cringy even in the 90s Bollywood films. And the songs are terrible and serve merely as a filler because this movie wasn't long enough for the garbage it was throwing on us. Then, the final moments were seemingly familiar to me. Yeah, it was a watered down version of the ending of "Pashupati Prasad". Then, I realized that it was written and directed by the same man who wrote and directed "Pashupati Prasad". It worked for Pashupati Prasad because you used the generic ideas in a totally different way there. Plus, Pashupati Prasad had a genuinely interesting story to be told. Not everything works everywhere. Just think of the twist ending like that of "The Sixth Sense" being shoehorned in "A Walk to Remember", or the themes of "Anand" being shoehorned in "Dil Toh Paagal Hai", or Mr. Bean's comedy being a theme of "Shutter Island". I just start feeling that Nepalese filmmakers have no sense and whatever good they do are merely coincidences, when I see two movies of the same person being comparable in a ridiculous manner like this.
After watching the performance of the male lead, I am just felt braindead. If you have seen films like Bachna Ae Haseeno, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, Anjaana Anjaani, Student of the Year, just mix them with the ending of Pashupati Prasad. You'll get this movie. Not saying they have been exactly copied but have a lot of similar cheesy stuff in the cheesier way.
I didn't get a chance to see this in theatres. I was quite upset. Then it finally released on YouTube, and I watched it. Then, I felt that I was lucky to not get a chance to see it in the theatres.
Score : 0/10, Grade : F.
