Last time we have been in Dillruba world, Vikrant Massey’s Rishabh had minimize off his hand and staged his personal loss of life to avoid wasting his disloyal spouse Rani (Taapsee Pannu) from going to jail for murdering her former lover. This dramatic ending offered an ideal springboard for the director to construct onto one thing way more significant for a sequel. Instead, Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba suffers from painful pacing, an overstretched screenplay, cringey dialogue, an illogical plot, and no actual hook to maintain you caught in its story.
Jimmy Shergill has a sporadic position within the movie
The movie opens in Agra, the place Rani resides as a small-time make-up artist, whereas Rishabh is hiding in disguise, making an attempt his finest to get the preparations made for the couple to maneuver overseas and begin afresh. With the Uttar Pradesh police one way or the other nonetheless hung up on the case, the 2 poisonous lovebirds can’t be seen collectively. They now alternate coy glances like forbidden highschool lovers throughout the road, discuss on hours-long cellphone calls, and meet in secret.
And oh, like at all times, they communicate fluent Dinesh Pandit – the crime novelist whose works gave them the right exit plan final time. You’ll see the loopy couple portray quotes from his books on partitions and even rubbish vans to ship messages to one another. Okay, admittedly, nevertheless painful the remainder of the movie is likely to be, this laureate alternate is kind of spectacular. It won’t have an oz of practicality, however the virtually Sherlocky thought is in alignment with the form of insanity that had taken over our protagonists in the direction of the tip of the primary movie.
The Kashyaps are actually in Agra, planning to begin a brand new life overseas as quickly as attainable
We even have a brand new primary character now: Abhimanyu, a medical compounder who’s captivated with Rani – reminding us of Rishabh’s pre-disaster part. He is perpetually within the hope of wooing the widow, unaware of her criminally insane and really a lot alive useless husband and their disturbing historical past. While Sunny Kaushal is fabulous in sure scenes that handle to convey the eeriness of the circumstances – particularly in his first scene with Massey on a carnival experience – the character feels underwritten.
Other main characters, together with the leads Pannu and Massey, and Jimmy Shergill’s Monty, face comparable fates. Unlike the primary movie, the underwhelming script leaves little to no room for the characters to shine and lay naked a darker facet of their psyche. To see such a proficient pool of actors being criminally underutilized is unpardonable.
There is a scene wherein Shergill, taking part in a cop and the uncle of the sufferer within the movie, tells his senior officer that “this case is like indigestion.” Umm… to take inventive liberty and have theatrical dialogue is ok, however this was completely misplaced, Jimmy. His sporadic presence is marred by overacting and fails to painting the ache of somebody who just lately misplaced their nephew and now has blood of their eyes.
Taapsee Pannu’s Rani Kashyap once more finds herself on the police’s radar on this sequel
The movie additionally suffers from irrationality. A bunch of issues are occurring simply because the filmmaker desires them to occur that approach. While some illogical plot factors may very well be chalked all the way down to luck and coincidence, the movie’s story overstretches its reliance on comfort and begins bordering on incredulity. Characters are assembly, falling in love and getting married within the span of three days; persons are having a gala time boating in a crocodile-infested river; leaping off cliffs is not inflicting as a lot as a scratch; and persons are inexplicably bumping into one another! Even if the makers wished to present the story the vibe of gossip journal column, a little bit of rationality would have executed the trick.
That mentioned, the movie has fortunately executed a good job with visible metaphors. Throughout the movie, we discover many intelligent poetic cues. Rani’s hand-shaped cellphone stand was essentially the most fascinating of all of them. The movie’s inclusion of “Ek Haseena Thi” from Rishi Kapoor’s Karz (1980) makes for one more fascinating selection. The music is itself a story of a girl’s betrayal and provides simply the precise word wanted to maintain issues playful. Sadly, Kapoor’s medley cannot solely carry the burden of the movie.
Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba lacks the essence of the unique movie
Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba fails to create the form of curiosity that fuels such thrillers. Even the surprising revelations will not take you by full shock. The storyline falls flat and there are hardly any thrills. Given that the characters had turned virtually cynical in the direction of the tip of the unique film, extra depth was wanted to maintain the momentum going. The movie barely scratches on that floor, delivering a superficial circulate of occasions. Even although the characters scream, yell, cry and do all the pieces of their energy to convey their helplessness, the movie fails to make you’re feeling for them, not like the primary movie.
The solely motivation to proceed watching this two-hour disappointment is the faint hope that the unique film’s attraction will resurface. And certainly, it does, however solely sporadically and in fleeting moments. For followers like me, these temporary glimpses are a merciless tease, hinting at what may have been if the sequel had lived as much as its predecessor’s requirements. If you are new to the twisted romance of Rani and Rishu, you would possibly be capable of look previous its flaws. But if you happen to’re conversant in the unique movie, the frustration is likely to be an excessive amount of to bear.
Rating: 6/10
