Movie Review: Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani..but Yeh Movie Hai Ordinary

A stereotypical bollywood offering, there is nothing that excites about this movie, other than the title, of course. For most of the time you would be forgiven for wondering what this movie is about and you couldn’t be blamed for not knowing even as you exited the hall, post credits as well. There’s nothing fresh about the presentation and there are plenty, (in fact, far too many) movies, that have covered this same theme over and over again.

I guarantee you, there’ll be plenty of times you’ll look at the watch, sometimes even staring at it in disbelief and looking for other things to do since you won’t be missing much in the movie anyway. There are precisely 2 events around which an entire two and a half hours is wound around – not sure if the director deserves credit for achieving this feat

The writing is ordinary as well save for exactly one dialogue which I felt suited the context beautifully and brings out a point which is probably the only unique aspect offered by the movie – even here, I might be overstating the case. Two songs, the already popular ones, are an easy watch..the rest just end up slowing time even further

The humor quotient is ordinary to non-existent and one would have hoped for plenty of laughs in what is meant to be a breezy and fun movie. In fact, the only reason you are able to somewhat sit through this rather long watch is because it offers one of the most pleasant and watchable pairs on screen. Ranbir and Deepika make the pseudo perfect pair and its their fresh presence (especially Ranbir’s) on screen that makes it not as bad as it ought to be

For Ranbir this movie may well be a kind of stress-buster for the all the effort it required from him, given the acting talent he has. Deepika is one of the prettiest faces in B-Town and the movie focuses heavily on that giving her close-ups wherever possible. The movie doesn’t require much from her either and she is able to pull off her role convincingly as well. Considering these are the leads of the movie, you can imagine how complex their characters must be

To sum it up then, with a title like Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani, one would have hoped for a mad, fun caper that’s light and breezy with a fresh presentation. Instead, you get the typical bollywood watch; while it remains light by not taking itself too seriously, it never really gets interesting enough either