Film fraternity across the globe has always been obsessed with the Shakespeare's tragedy set in Fair Verona.Many of these adaptations can easily be termed as timeless classics. But Bollywood had been deprived of an adaptation which would closely follow the book.Clearly, Manish Tiwari tries to keep his film very close to the original story. But he miserably fails to recreate the aura of Star Crossed Lovers at the holy banks of River Ganges.
Rahul Mishra (Prateik) and Bachchi Kashyap (Amyra), from the rival sand mafia families fall in love with each other.This does not go well ,particularly, with Bachchi's influencial mama ,Teetas (Ravi Kishan) who arranges for Bachchi's marriage with a Police wala (Preetam).Rahul and Bachchi secretly get married but before they could make it public, at turn of events, Teetas gets killed at the hands of Rahul. Rahul is on run. While Preetam and Kashyaps are hell-bent on avenging Teeta's death. Meanwhile Bachchi is also being forced to tie the knot with Preetam.
Prateik Babbar has done a reasonably good job but in certain scenes he has clearly over-acted. Newcomer Amyra Dastur looks very raw and has struggled to act. Ravi Kishan has done a decent job. The main problem lies with the direction and screenplay.Dialogues fail to impress. Story moves at the snail's pace. The iconic "Balcony Scene" is not at all even close to being impressive.
The music and lyrics are among the very few positives in the film. Title track is soothing. Bhole Chale has got interesting lyrics. Then there are songs with folk flavour.
Verdict : 2/5
