~~Befikre Review & Boxoffice Thread~~ - DT N P 92 - Page 55

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Unfortunately, another piece of disaster follows one after the other. The number of goods films in 2016 can be literally counted on your finger tips.

This one can be easily labelled as TRASH OF 2016! Even #BaarBaarDekho with an overall rating of 2/5 stars look like "Mughal-E-Aazam' in comparison to #Befikre. 😲
Story: The Definition of New-Age cinema by Directors: Take random hero heroine (read sex starved perverts), shoot whatever you have in the name of scenes' in some exotic foreign locations, go on to show high-on-testosterones sexual relationship b/w leads with no strings attached' theory, make them fall in love anyway after lots of bematlab ka naach gana, start milna bichadna angle and reunite them in the end, and so to basically give a f*ck to the story. Because, it's Bollywood afterall, remember!

Bhai, in sab mein loss toh sirf aur sirf audience ka hi hai naa. Why to pay heavy bucks to watch the same shit since the 90's over and over again?
In #Befikre's case, take a bed, mix together loads of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, add equal portions of Neel n Nikki's nanga-pan and cheating-baazi of Mera Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai; and if all this is not still enough, sprinkle some desi pana of DDLJ swad-anusaar, and YAY! The final product is one of the Europe's newest recipe - "Eiffel De Pakaao".
Performances: Ranveer Singh has built a reputation for himself over the years. He surely didn't need a #Befikre in his career at this point, but then, who would reject having Aditya Chopra as a director on his resume?! Ranveer is the only saving grace in this over-the-top, trying-to-be-modern rom-com. But again, I can't believe the audience yet isn't horribly drained of Ranveer's jumping jack-adrenaline overdosed-monkey acts & chichora guy image.

Also, did I forget to tell you #Befikre leads consist of 1 & half men? Yea, Vani Kapoor is the other half. She really needs to shoot the cameraman for capturing her like that. You just can't take your eyes away from her horrendous lip job whenever she appears on screen. Her acting appears to be good in bits & pieces. But again, even a giraffe as a replacement would have done the same job as expected from Vani, minus the love making ofcourse, but then you never know with Ranveer! Err...

Anybody, like ANYBODY could have played Dharam & Shyra instead of Ranveer & Vani, and that wouldn't have made an oita of difference to the overall value of this film.

Positives: The reasons you may like #Befikre will be because of its beautiful cinematography and Vaibhavi Merchant's choreography, Vishal-Shekhar's fresh songs, and few comical gags by Ranveer Singh that save the day. Ignore the above if you have watched or going to watch #Befikre only for those unrequired 36 moments of saliva exchange between Ranveer & Vani, in which case you will be getting much much more than that. Like c'mon, who wasn't dying to see Ranveer Singh's naked ass in a Aditya Chopra family film' haan! Ting...

Negatives: Almost Everything.

Conclusion: With the same ghisa pita story seen a million times in Hindi cinema & predictable ka Baap screenplay, #Befikre adds a page in Bollywood's book of How not to make a soft po*n in the name of romo-com and try to fool today's audience' category.

A note to Aditya Chopra: I wanted to say that next time please pay your writers properly so that they can atleast write a better story for you to direct something, but then you know what, he himself is the story writer
If Adi was so desparate to make a 2016 modern era film, he could have easily created another zillionth version DDLJ itself, and that too would have been leaps ahead of #Befikre.
Rating: Going with a well deserved 0.5/5. Anything more would mean that #Befikre is watchable, which it's not.

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