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00:00In terms of acting, I thought Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon were in top form.

00:06In fact, Shahid Kapoor's relationship with his best friend Monty, played by Ashish Verma, is brilliant.

00:12I mean, they have such great chemistry as well.

00:21Good evening, this is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News.

00:24I'm here with the review of a very complicated movie title.

00:27It's called Tere Baaton Mein Aisa Ulja Jiya.

00:30Yes, I got it right. But let me tell you, the movie is not as complicated as the title.

00:36We are talking about Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon's latest movie,

00:40which is a star-crossed romance between a robot, an android and a human being.

00:46So, Shahid Kapoor plays the 30-something young lad, while Kriti Sanon plays a humanoid.

00:52As far as concepts go and themes go, this is a very novel one.

00:56But I wish they had executed it more fairly and more convincingly.

01:00This movie is directed by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Shah.

01:03And one thing I thought was, like, they brought, I think, both these brains together,

01:08but was not able to bring it to the finish line.

01:11I mean, look at it this way, Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon, in terms of acting, both of them are very good at it.

01:17In fact, Kriti Sanon had my heart.

01:19That staccato voice of a robot, or what you would expect a robot to be.

01:24She's a looker of a robot.

01:26And the way she speaks, the way she moves, the lack of emotions on her face, etc.

01:31She nailed it. And she's very good and very heartening to watch as well.

01:36She calls herself Sifra. She's a self-automated robot.

01:40And then there's Shahid Kapoor, who plays Aryan.

01:42Now, from the outset, we are told he belongs to a family where he's being forced to get married.

01:47His mother's saree is in a twist because he's yet to find a girl and therefore is forcing him to get married.

01:54He doesn't seem very keen. He seems to be a commitment-phobe of sorts.

01:58We don't know what the backstory is.

02:00And then to get off that heat from his domestic, from his home, he goes to the US,

02:06where his cool aunt, played by Dimple Kapadia, very well-cast Dimple Kapadia,

02:10she plays a robotic engineer.

02:12And what we have is this very cool aunt trying to use him as a lab rat

02:16to see whether her creation, who is Sifra, passes muster as a human rather than a robot.

02:22So he is his lab rat unwittingly.

02:25They, both Sifra and Aryan, meet. They fall in love.

02:28And once Shahid Kapoor realizes that she's a robot, he still has some, you know, feelings for her.

02:35Perhaps that's why he invites her back to India.

02:37Tells his aunt, it's a great idea if I can introduce Sifra as my fake fiancée to my folks

02:43so that they can get office back.

02:45As far as premises go, this is a lot of fun.

02:47This is supposed to be a sci-fi comedy.

02:49And those parts are really fun.

02:52If you've seen the trailer, actually you've seen most of the movie.

02:54The first half is very predictable.

02:56But it's the second half which is a mess as well.

02:58The thing is, one of the biggest letdowns of this film is that

03:02they're not able to give us a very convincing backstory

03:06on what made Aryan fall in love with Sifra, what is their bond like.

03:10I mean, we live in the age of Tinder, we live in the age of Hinge,

03:14we live in the age of fast dating apps where, you know,

03:17emotions and perhaps relationships alter at all points.

03:21So it's very difficult to believe Aryan's trajectory when it comes to his romance with Sifra.

03:28The jokes really land. I wish there were more jokes as well.

03:31One of the biggest problems I see with this film is that

03:34the directors fail to really commit to being either a sci-fi film or a comedy.

03:39They want to make a wholesome entertainer.

03:42And that's one of the biggest downfalls of this film.

03:45I mean, you cannot have a romance, have some few jokes thrown in,

03:49very vanilla kind of jokes, but not really explain

03:52what it takes for the two to work.

03:56Somehow their romance was not very convincing.

03:59In terms of acting, I thought Shahid Kapoor and Krithi Sainan were in top form.

04:05In fact, Shahid Kapoor's relationship with his best friend Monty,

04:10played by Ashish Verma, is brilliant.

04:12I mean, they have such great chemistry as well.

04:15I remember laughing out loud to some of the big scenes.

04:18The best part about this film, I would say, is the humor and the acting as well.

04:23But towards the end, I must say, it just becomes a hot mess

04:27because it's so predictable.

04:29I mean, a robot gone rogue, him falling out of love with her does not make much sense.

04:33What happens to his folks who were rabidly behind Aryan to get married, etc.

04:39None of it is explained. Everything is swiftly covered.

04:43And so it fails to, you know, it's done in a very clinical manner,

04:47almost like, you know, they're ticking the boxes,

04:49which is, I think, one of the biggest missteps done in this movie.

04:53But if you're just in the mood for, like, say, a very light, breezy entertainer,

04:57without asking too many questions, this is for you.

05:00But when it comes to, like, looking for logics, such as,

05:03why would a robotic, you know, engineer, played by Shahid Kapoor,

05:07not realize that she is an android? I mean, she's not human.

05:12All those little lags and holes are not fully developed, nor are they concealed.

05:17There are several lags in the story that make no sense.

05:20How do they transport Sifra back to India from the US, etc.

05:25And how does she go back to the world of living?

05:28Nothing is really explained.

05:30But if you're in the mood for just a breezy entertainer,

05:32without asking too many questions, perhaps this movie is for you.

05:36You should put a ring on it.

05:37For all others, I think this is a great golden opportunity gone tame and gone to waste.

05:42I've gone with 2.5 out of 5.

05:45For my full review, you can always go to gulfnews.com.

05:48Do let us know what you think of the movie.

05:50And happy viewing at the cinemas.

MOVIE REVIEW | Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya

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