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Krispy Rishtey Review: A Familiar Tale of Love and Sacrifice!
Krispy Rishtey is streaming on JioCinema.
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CB DeskKRISPY RISHTEY
Producer: Sagar Shrivastwa
Director: Jagat Singh
Cast: Jagat Singh, Diljot, Manmeet Kaur, Murali Sharma, Ronit Kapill, Brijendra Kala, Ravi Jhankal, Shruti Ulfat
Streaming on: JioCinema
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By Jyothi Venkatesh
The premise of this predominantly musical film is very wafer thin. Hailing from Rajasthan, Karan and Anjali are forced into a marriage to appease their elders—father Thakur Virendra Singh (Ravi Jhankal) and widowed mother Gayatri (Shruti Ulfat), respectively Karan (Jagat Singh) marries Anjali (Diljott) to please his father, leaving behind childhood sweetheart Natasha (Manmeet Kaur).
It is a twisted journey of a married young couple ‘s twisted journey of falling in love with each other. Anjali discovers the truth, and steps aside, seeking guidance from her friend Vinod (Ronit Kapill). Basically, it is a tale of love, sacrifice, and self-discovery unfolds among the four characters. In a quixotic turn of events, Vinod enters Anjali’s life. The rest of the story is about how the four lovers will find their happily ever after.
Couples trapped in arranged marriages and pining for their ex-lovers is a familiar premise that has several times been beaten to death. The overall narrative struggles to be seamless as the tracks shift between Karan-Anjali, Karan-Natasha, and Anjali-Vinod. The overdramatized and long-drawn scenes disrupt the movie’s pace, with many abrupt scenes and tracks. Singh and Afzal Shaikh’s editing leave a lot to be desired with many scenes with jerky cuts.
The film is a musical with 15 tracks by Dhananjay Kherr, Manoj Nayak, Nazakat Shujat, Nishant Kamal Vyas, Shivang Upadhyay, Vijay Verma, and Apernit Singh. While Diljott, as the simple and docile wife Anjali, shows promise as a performer, her character is quite uni-dimensional. As a volatile and violent Natasha, Manmeet Kaur’s characterisation is interesting but remains largely unexplored. Ronit Kapill’s spirited Vinod gets jarring after a point, while Jagat Singh is just about average. Brijendra Kala is good as the uncle of the hero while Ravi Jhankal and Shruti Panwar have not been properly exploited
The movie especially struggles to engage in the first half, with the narrative picking up only towards the end. The climax is contrived and rushed and unconvincing. The familiar tale of love, sacrifice, and self-discovery is hindered by its predictable plot, and unconvincing climax despite some hummable tracks.