Tadap

Directed by : Milan Luthria

Mera beta hero tha, aur woh hero hi rahega... kya hua agar waqt ne usse villain bana diya toh. 


Spoilers ahead... 


Set in Mussoorie, when Ramisa (Tara Sutaria), daughter of MLA Nautiyal (Kumud Mishra) returns from London. She very soon feels attracted to Ishana (Ahan Shetty) who is adopted son of Daddy (Saurabh Shukla), and Daddy works for Nautiyal. Ishana and Ramisa fall in love but eventually Ramisa gets married to some other guy and Ishana becomes an angry alcoholic violent person hoping Ramisa will be his again one day. 

While reading the plot there would be endless past hindi films that would start coming to your mind. So its left to how screenplay is managed, which is a total mess. As if a slow-mo entry scene of a hero (in this case, also a debutant) isn't enough, we get a rap style background track added too this time. Writing is really awful for two reasons, firstly the entire Ishana-Ramisa love track is boring which is what the whole movie will be depending on. And then, the huge twist that comes in 3rd act (if you haven't seen the original film) despite being very good ends up as a let-down as you realize how Ramisa or for that matter Nautiyal behaved in a way they shouldn't have. For instance, there's no point of Ramisa opening window of car to see a happy Ishana doing aiyaashi with girls, and she is feeling sad about it when in reality she should be happy, but this is to cheat us in thinking the reunion of Ramisa-Ishana won't happen now. Then, its hard to understand if Nautiyal who always knew about Ramisa's intentions, and aware of the extent to which Ishana may go to get her, why would he want Ramisa to return back to Mussoorie for whatever reasons she does, why create a tough situation for himself and his daughter? 

Real conversations happens very less in the movie, its heavy dialoguebaazi that you have to sit through. With the poor writing as expected the performances suffer too, and I had issues with Ahan Shetty's dialogue delivery too. Would had been interesting to see Tara Sutaria's act if her character wasn't sugarcoated so much to give that drastic 360 degree turn in the end. Not sure if there was any need to make her pure evil, or make him take his life for a love that was always lust from other person. We are told at end credits that its a real story of a guy named 'Shiva' which makes me wonder that  'Love makes you do all sort of things, right or wrong, don't matter'. Though Tadap not being a good movie works in its favour too otherwise it had in it to land into all sort of controversies like Kabir Singh (I didn't like that one too). 

Only likeable acting comes from Kumud Mishra and Saurabh Shukla, but that was never going to be enough. Also, do people name their children 'LOL' these days? Please end this world. 

I wish Tadap worked for me, rather it was only the Arijit Singh's 'Tumse bhi jyada' track that kept playing many times to make sure I am doing okay and not thinking of switching the movie off. I successfully did that part. 

My Rating : 3/10