Laughably, none of the film's young protagonists thinks beyond a kiss. The debutante director assumes her audience-profile to be 18-20-year-olds who spend all their time dreaming of smooches and splashing in azure beaches. Though much hue and cry is expended on the Indian flag and its sanctity, scant respect is paid to the audiences' intelligence. The narrative is cluttered with characters who think 1970s but wear clothes and an attitude borrowed from the immigration desk of an American airport. Many exhausting reels later the slain NRI's mother (Deepti Naval, again!) is shown bandaging her son's Aussie killer's hand. The narrative moves through two continents, and the Australian sojourn is crammed with loud propaganda on racial hatred when the hero's Australian cousin is smashed to death by a jealous local. There is a too much of window-dressing and too little substance.

The screenplay could have done with substantial paring and reparation. But given the preposterous preenings of the blabber-mouthed plot, the daft never develops beyond the first draft. The film also bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Farah Khan's 'Main Hoon Na'.Īs in Mansoor's film, Ms Khosla's go-slow narration builds a graph for the hero from daft to wise.At least that is what it's meant to be. The debutant director sets her sights on making a film that pays a jam-packed homage to the coming-of-age flicks like Mansoor Khan's 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar' and Karan Johar's 'Student Of The Year'. Eve-teasing is not just a past-time in a film such as this. There are any number of under-dressed under-graduates luring and pulling boys into empty classes for a bit of necking.Īnd then Bollywood wonders why it is blamed for violence against women in our society. So the first 10 minutes of playing-time in this over-long ode to the yen of being young is devoted the film's hero Lakshya (TV actor Himansh Kohli) trying to get a kiss out of a short-skirted miss.

no, not reckless.but brainless to the point of being moronic. Lamentably in the perverse parameters of a particular kind of Bollywood entertainment, 'young' is equated with. 'Yaariyan' enters into the young.no, make that very young.territory. But she, poor thing, does just that in a sequence that even Nirupa Roy would have thought twice before getting into. It isn't a pretty sight to see an actress of Deepti Naval's calibre ham. Film: 'Yaariyan' Cast: Himansh Kohli, Nakul Preet, Deepti Naval Directed by Divya Khosla Kumar Rating: **

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