Hamari Adhuri Kahani

 

Yash Chopra might be cherished up in the heaven as the Bhatt camp is doing full justice to his legacy of emotional romantic movies set in beautiful locales and loaded up with exquisite songs. Mahesh Bhatt pens down the story of his parents in HAK and he does it well but this story has few bumps as well.

Aarav Ruparel (Emraan Hashmi) is a business tycoon who falls for a florist, Vasudha (Vidya Balan) as she reminds him of his parents. Aarav loves her in a very sensitive way but Vasudha has a painful past of her husband Hari (Rajkumar Rao) being accused of being a terrorist. And as fate is always a devil in itself at times, so Hari returns after being away for 5 years and vows to never let Aarav and Vasudha be together. Vasudha loves Aarav but is strangled in the age-old culture of ‘Mangalsutra’.

The film doesn’t have a big cast in terms of number but has a big cast in terms of talent. Vidya Balan is one of the best in current times but here she appears very hollow. You can’t feel her pain many a times but still she has few moments where she shows her mettle. The scene where she notices that Aarav is attracted towards her by seeing her name written many times on his notepad has her expressions being perfect. Emraan Hashmi is shown as very stylish and elegant lover. His grandeur is shown by his suits and his graceful love for flowers. Emraan is very powerful when it comes to the philosophical dialogue delivery and even the tears in his eyes when he clicks the breathtaking flowers in a Valley in Chattisgarh seem so touching. Rajkumar steals the show with his lunatic act of a brutal husband.

The songs have always been the strongest part of Bhatt films and even here they are a delight to the ears. That moment when the last paragraph of the title song comes up will surely give goosebumps to all the lovers. Jeet Ganguly and Mithoon are riding high by giving amazing albums. Arijit’s voice adds so much depth to the title song; it makes you feel the pain. The cinematographer adds charm and to the songs especially; the lily flowers and desert locales were as amazing as the songs.

The story by Mahesh Bhatt is of his parents but few parts are immensely under-written, like he fails to make a grip throughout the film. The story is slow and may be called as ‘age-old’ but that was the same thing people said for ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ and even ‘Aashiqui 2’ had a pretty soppy-slow pace but these films still hit the chords for the lovers of die-hard-romance genre.

Mohit Suri has yet again made a film which make fall for the romantic aroma throughout the film. The dialogues may not be as good as the dialogues of ‘Awarapan’ or ‘Aashiqui 2’ but some of them are the ones that you will remember for a long time. Like the one in which Emraan proposes to Vidya or even the speech of Vidya on women issues questioning the culture is pretty impressive. Suri knows how to make a recipe only on a low heat; his films are more for an audience who like to watch the flower grow instead of just buying them from a flower shop.

Suri’s ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’ may not be the best of the romantic films but it still isn’t a bad film, it needs patience and at the end you will be delighted.