Haseen Dilruba – movie review

There used to be a famous joke during the Doordarshan days that movies were like a treadmill, whatever be the runtime you start watching the movie, the story will still remain stuck at the same scene. If anyone had started watching this hindi movie, they would’ve been perplexed and wouldn’t be wrong to think if they dozed off and woke up into a different movie with same cast!! The movie begins with a bang and the first 10 15 minutes are laugh riot. Especially the mother character of the hero, she steals the show from literally every single person on the frame. Till half way through, wasn’t even aware that the guy who gets married to Tapsee is the actual hero of the movie!!! That is the disadvantage of new comers in connecting with audience who keep hoping to see some familiar face showing up and taking the movie over. Not that this guy is bad performance wise, but looks more like a tv soap opera personality stuck on a big screen. Tapsee’s character starts on a mischievous note, turns into a vamp of a wife and graduates into adultery and melodrama – all before the interval block!! Anniyan Vikram, with his split personality disorder, didn’t had this many change in characterization!! The story would’ve been a blockbuster hit, if they had continued in the same vein of Maamiyar marumagal tussle. The scene where the MIL cribs to his son that instead of a Bahu they’ve got a beauty parlour was ROFL. The way she warns the hero, not to ask what the would be bride likes, is again an LOL moment. And her attempts at committing suicide was insanely funny. Pity that all these goodness gets exhausted in span of ten minutes. The plot gets murkier and confused as the storyline progresses as to who killed the hero with the upcoming climatic twist being obvious from scene 1. The repeated mention of the hindi detective novelist like Rajesh kumar, makes on wonder, if that author is real, for some of the storylines that get mentioned in the movie as his novels, sounds far more interesting than this script.

Gils verdict – Haseen Dilruba is not worth your hard earned Rooba. This Haseen is better unseen.