"Bareilly ki burfi (बरेली की बर्फ़ी)"
Watched Hindi movie 'Bareilly ki burfi (बरेली की बर्फ़ी)'.
This film is directed by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari. Produced by Vineet Jain, Renu Ravi Chopra. Written by Nitesh Tiwari, Shreyas Jain. Music by Tanisha Bagchi, Arko, Samira Koppikar, Vayu, Samir Uddin. Cinematography Gavemic U Ary . The film stars Ayushman Khurana, Kriti Sanon, Rajkumar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Seema Pahawa, Rohit Chaudhary. The film runs for almost 2 hours and was released in 2017. I watched it on Zee5 with Aditi on 17th Feb 2022.
Ayushman writes a book about his ex-lover, who betrayed him and married someone else. He writes the book, but fearing exposure, publishes it under Rajkumar’s name. Nobody reads it anyway. Until Kriti does. The description of book’s heroine fits her perfectly. She approaches Ayushman to meet Rajkumar.
The story has similarities with Madhuri-Sanjay Dutt-Salman starter Sajan. But then the story diverges. For this story, length of the film has to be not more than 1.5 hour. Anything more waters it down. Do you get a diluted version. This results in slowness, drag and stagnation of the movie.
Ayushman and Rajkumar do well. Kriti is ok. Pankaj and Seema are versatile actors and do Justice to any character. ‘Sweetie Tera drama’ is the only song you remember after the movie.
The movie recovered almost 3 times its production Cost, at box office. So it was decent commercial success.
Positives: Acting
Negatives: Watered down story.
Give it a miss.
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