Pyaar Hai Toh Hai Review: Predictable and clichéd!

PYAAR HAI TOH HAI

Director: Pradeep R.K. Chaudhary

Cast- Karan Hariharan, Paanie Kashyap, Abhishek Duhan, Rohit Chaudhary and Veen Harsh

Platform of Release- Theatres

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By Jyothi Venkatesh

The film revolves around Arman (Karan Hariharan) and Nimmo (Pannie Kashyap) who live in the same neighbourhood and love one another but don’t express their love to each other. Vikas (Abhishek Duhan) enters the antagonist playboy as her neighbour. Nimmo and Vikas fall in love with one another but the former soon realises that Vikas is a Casanova who callously discards her after having his own share of fun.

Arman is livid and prevails upon Vikas to marry Nimmo, thereby sacrificing his own love. To her misfortune, Nimmo is physically and mentally tortured by Vikas who, one day, disappears after beating her up. To some extent a la Kamal Haasan in Sadma, now Arman now comes forward to take care of Nimmo in hospital and looks after her even thereafter. The central question of who Nimmo will end up with is at the heart of the story.

The story is extremely predictable and relies on clichéd characters and subplots to support its wafer-thin plot. What is worse is the fact that unfortunately the plot lacks depth, with absolutely no substantial twist to engage the viewers.

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As far as the performances are concerned, I would say that the performances of Karan Hariharan who has earlier appeared in films like Missing on A Week-End and Khela Jhokon (Bengali) and Paanie Kashyap, who has made her debut with the film, are fairly decent. While Karan, who incidentally happens to be the son of playback singer Hariharan, delivers a restrained performance as Armaan, Paanie portrays a carefree and happy-go-lucky character and goes overboard in places.

Abhishek Duhan, as the bad boy Vikas, tries far too hard to play the part, but unfortunately looks too wooden, whereas Veen Harsh as Armaan’s friend and Rohit Chaudhary as local politician Badri deliver decent performances.

On the whole, let’s face facts, while the scenic beauty of Rishikesh is soothing, and the music is soothing, the film with its predictable plot and wafer thin story line has its own share of clichés and loopholes is not palpable to rescue itself from its pitfalls as well as lacklustre execution.