Final verdict - Not really worth the time.
The Good :
1. The progression of the story was at a a good pace where you see Ayushman's character starting out as sort of an inconsiderate male chauvinist, then slowly learning a few things about life, women and how important the role of a doctor is in people's lives. He eventually comes out on the other side. By the end of the movie, he becomes somebody who you'd at the very least respect and at best even admire.
2. Unlike Anek, this movie does not come off as preachy and it tries to send it's message via storytelling, instead of weird out of place one off speeches.
3. Everybody acted really well. While the story doesn't exactly have way too complicated scenes where the actors have to show the depth of their acting, everybody did what was required of them very well.
The Bad: 1. Like many Bollywood movies, the love story pushed in this one also was sort of unnecessary and didn't exactly add anything of value to the main plot.
2. I had a really hard time understanding the characters in this one. For eg., Ayushman starts off as the kind of guy who doesn't listen to women, but he listens whenever he is shamed or bullied by other women. He even seeks their approval. It's like he is a male chauvinist who also cares too much about what women think of him at the same time and tries to please them at times. A little paradoxical. Rakul Preet Singh's character basically cheated on her fiance and yet somehow the director tried to paint her as a good person.
3. Shefali Shah seems underutilized in the movie. She is probably the actor with the most potential in the entire starcast of this movie. It seems like the director saw "Delhi Crime" season 2 and asked her basically to do the same one dimensional authoritarian woman here as well. I'd have been more interested in her story than the weird time wasting love story.
4. The movie has subplots that really go nowhere and add no value. About 20 mins could have been easily trimmed without losing much of the main plot.
The Ugly: 1. The movie has basically a "women can do no wrong" undertone and tries too hard to portray every one of them as basically a person with good intentions. It does so at the cost of making the male characters look as either extremely flawed or just downright weak.
2. At one point, an underage character says "I'm not ashamed of falling in love, but I'm ashamed of being stupid". This is horrible messaging. I don't want a 16 year old to think they're falling in love with a guy in his late 30s. The 16 yr old in this case is just a victim of being groomed and it taken advantage of. They should see it as such.
The Good :
1. The progression of the story was at a a good pace where you see Ayushman's character starting out as sort of an inconsiderate male chauvinist, then slowly learning a few things about life, women and how important the role of a doctor is in people's lives. He eventually comes out on the other side. By the end of the movie, he becomes somebody who you'd at the very least respect and at best even admire.
2. Unlike Anek, this movie does not come off as preachy and it tries to send it's message via storytelling, instead of weird out of place one off speeches.
3. Everybody acted really well. While the story doesn't exactly have way too complicated scenes where the actors have to show the depth of their acting, everybody did what was required of them very well.
The Bad: 1. Like many Bollywood movies, the love story pushed in this one also was sort of unnecessary and didn't exactly add anything of value to the main plot.
2. I had a really hard time understanding the characters in this one. For eg., Ayushman starts off as the kind of guy who doesn't listen to women, but he listens whenever he is shamed or bullied by other women. He even seeks their approval. It's like he is a male chauvinist who also cares too much about what women think of him at the same time and tries to please them at times. A little paradoxical. Rakul Preet Singh's character basically cheated on her fiance and yet somehow the director tried to paint her as a good person.
3. Shefali Shah seems underutilized in the movie. She is probably the actor with the most potential in the entire starcast of this movie. It seems like the director saw "Delhi Crime" season 2 and asked her basically to do the same one dimensional authoritarian woman here as well. I'd have been more interested in her story than the weird time wasting love story.
4. The movie has subplots that really go nowhere and add no value. About 20 mins could have been easily trimmed without losing much of the main plot.
The Ugly: 1. The movie has basically a "women can do no wrong" undertone and tries too hard to portray every one of them as basically a person with good intentions. It does so at the cost of making the male characters look as either extremely flawed or just downright weak.
2. At one point, an underage character says "I'm not ashamed of falling in love, but I'm ashamed of being stupid". This is horrible messaging. I don't want a 16 year old to think they're falling in love with a guy in his late 30s. The 16 yr old in this case is just a victim of being groomed and it taken advantage of. They should see it as such.