Film: Hamari Adhuri Kahani
Director: Mohit Suri
Cast: Vidya Balan, Rajkummar Rao, Emraan Hashmi
Hamari Adhuri Kahani is the kind of film where the hero, when smitten by a beautiful woman, writes her name on a piece of paper four times. He then slyly spies upon the woman using a car’s rear-view mirror. It is also the kind of film where the hero clicks a group picture only to zoom in on the heroine. When he realises that the picture is unclear, he even asks her (who also works for him) to click another one of herself and send it to him. The smooth criminal we are talking of is, of course, played by Emraan Hashmi.
With Hamari Adhuri Kahani , director Mohit Suri, fresh from resurrecting the serious love story genre with Rs. 100-crore Aashiqui 2 , has made a film that is likely to appeal more to the parents (or grandparents) of the kids who patronised Aashiqui 2 . Vasudha (Vidya Balan) is a middle-aged mother who, believing that her husband (Rajkummar Rao) has deserted her, falls in love with millionaire hotelier Aarav Ruparel (Emraan Hashmi). So when the husband returns one day with an adequate alibi, what is she expected to do, especially when the said husband is the product of tradition and patriarchy? While this plot seems promising, the film, in trying to become a timeless tragedy, stoops to petty sentimentality.
Vishal Menon
Hamari Adhuri Kahani
Genre: Romance-drama
Director: Mohit Suri
Cast: Vidya Balan, Rajkummar Rao, Emraan Hashmi
Storyline: A married woman falls in love outside of her marriage
