Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai movie review: Baap re…
‘Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai’Dir: David DhawanActors: Varun Dhawan, Mrunal Thakur, Pooja HegdeRating: * Much mehnat (effort) to watch this movie, I tell you. To start with — first day, first show at my local theatre stands cancelled. Secondly, box-office bloke at the other cinema can’t tell the film’s title— Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai—while I can only hum it! We figure it out somehow. I’m in. Whether or not ‘mehnat rang layegi’, as goes the proverb — the effort will produce flying colours — this picture with costumes, altogether, in deadly pink, blinding orange/ochre, and lemon greens, looks like a rainbow, alright. It opens with Varun Dhawan and Mrunal Thakur, husband & wife, at the counsellor/therapist’s office. He wants a baby. She doesn’t. He wants to have sex. She’ll have none of it. Both want out, eventually. Divorce is the obvious option. If only life’s issues in such comedies were so straight and simple. What’ll we watch for the supposedly breezy two hours, that feel like five hours, anyway? Frankly, I don’t …
