Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal star in the new film Tu Hai Meri Kiran. The movie tries to use time-travel elements but gets messy and confusing. Many scenes feel like a series of eye-rolls. The plot about a stalker hero fails to impress, leaving the audience exhausted by the end.
There’s no lack of ambition in picking on several classic time-travel-flick elements: old, scratched instruments working miraculously, flashes of memory coming and going, mysterious things happening. But the proceedings get increasingly more hare-brained, the flash-back-and-forward scenes arriving at speed, leaving us exhausted.
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Having survived, just barely, I have questions: where is this film set? There are hills and bungalows and carnivals and movie theatres around which the cast revolves, playing characters who feel they have no connection with each other – Ankit Gupta as Sonakshi’s husband, Purnendu Bhattacharya as her stern dad, as well as Zarina Wahab as Zaheer’s complaining mother, are all in here, but what do you do in if the writing is a series of eye-rolls? Who signed off on the film?
In too many Hindi films, stalkers are glorified as heroes: Samar revealing himself to be a Class A creep, secretly filming the girl of his dreams, feels like a shift, but all too soon he’s giving himself the excuses that Bollywood aashiqs hide behind, and everything rapidly goes downhill from there.
Sonakshi and Zaheer have worked together in the 2022 Double X L; here they are the leads in a film which clearly intended to be a psychological thriller, but neither the stalker nor stalkee can save this convoluted mess from sinking.