Directed by : Ribhu Dasgupta 

Lekin best time ka ek problem hai, woh jaldi gujar jaata hai..


Spoilers ahead..


Mira Kapoor (Parineeti Chopra), a recent divorcee on her daily commute watches a girl from train, Nusrat John (Aditi Rao Hydari) and gets obsessed with a little bit of jealousy wondering how can someone appear so happy with a loving partner/husband. Nusrat happens to live some kms away only from Shekhar Kapoor (Avinash Tiwary) ex-husband of Mira, who now lives with Anjali (Natasha Benton). Mira, an alcoholic and suffering from short term amnesia since suffering from a car accident gets very angry when one day she sees something unusual from train about Nusrat. The next day Nusrat is found missing, and question is whether Mira is related to it in anyway or there's more to the story then we know. 

I have not read the novel, but did see English version which had Emily Blunt in lead and I had totally enjoyed her act even though the movie was just decent. The Hindi version has been changed around quite a lot with a totally new climax, and to be honest all the changes felt silly and downgrades the movie lot more. 

For instance, the focus here goes totally on whodunit and it does succeed in that as its not always clear who would had killed Nusrat. But the screenplay is too loose to keep you engaged, which is why I felt it was a wrong choice, and should had stuck to character study of all 3 ladies, Mira, Nusrat and Anjali, how they are inter-connected and their relations with psychiatrist making you feel sorry for all 3 of them. I so much missed that awkward and chilling sequence at the end where Mira and Anjali would had felt trapped inside house after learning reality of Shekhar, rather we get a one on one scene of Mira and Shekhar with a flasbhack which was meh. 

If there was something to change then it should had been more screen-time for Shekhar's character but unfortunately that doesn't happen, infact it was easy to read Shekhar wasn't what he pretends to be but that could be because I already knew the story. 

What seriously irritated me most was the Bagga family angle involving the cop Dalbir Kaur Bagga (Kirti Kulhari), this addition to the story felt so bollywoodlike and hilarious to watch in ofcourse unintentional way. 

For me to enjoy this film from the point of view of director, it needed tight editing with no requirement of those final two forced songs into narrative and also I wasn't particularly satisfied with Parineeti's act specially in the drunk scenes. Aditi is very much wasted like Avinash, and Natasha Benton role is reduced entirely to ofcourse give more weightage to Kirti Kulhari's unwanted revenge angle. 

Its not a torture as many people have labelled it, a watchable movie for most parts, but if I have to prefer a version, I would pick English one, though most likely novel should be the best pick to go with looking at how flawed both film versions are. 

My Rating : 4.5/10