REVIEW DIL BECHARA

Producer- Fox Star Studios

Director- Mukesh Chhabra

Star Cast- Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjana Sanghi, Saswata Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee and Sunit Tandon

Genre- Social

Rating- **

A big letdown!

Jyothi Venkatesh

Dil Bechara is a big letdown. It is the love story of two cancer patients and the official remake of Hollywood film The Fault In Our Stars. The film revolves around  Manny (Sushant Singh Rajput) and Kizzie Basu (Sanjana Sanghi), who live in Jamshedpur and fall in love at first sight .It is full of depression right from the word go. If Manny suffers from cancer, his best friend, JP (Sahil Vaid), has cancer of the eyes and has lost sight in one eye, and it’s a matter of a few days that he will lose sight in the other eye too.

Essentially in this plot-less as well as logic-less film, we see how Kizzie who is a fan of song writer Abhimanyu Veer (Saif Ali in a half baked role) and loves his song, ‘I’m yours’, which, incidentally, he has not completed and how Kizzie sets out to France to stumble upon AV and ask him to complete his song. Manny now decides to promise Kizzie to complete Abhimanyu Veer’s song and make her happy. Once they return to India, Manny’s cancer spreads in his body and he has to be hospitalized as his condition deteriorates. 

It is absurd that when Kzzie decided to go to Paris to see Abhimanyu, her father asks Kizzie and her mother to seek the doctor’s advice and in turn the doctor advises her that that Kizzie’s mother ought to accompany her and Manny to Paris, whereas the father, as the head of the family could have taken the decision on his own. Sadly, Suprotim Sengupta’s adapted story and screenplay (with additional screenplay by Shashank Khaitan) are not half as good as they ought to have been, especially since the drama unfolded looks half baked and contrived to the core.

Sushant Singh Rajput is handicapped literally not only by cancer and his left handicapped foot but also by the insipid script which fails to do proper justice to his character, while Sanjana Sanghi fits her character to the T though her role reminds you a lot about the protagonist in the film October, which was yet another depressing film. Director Mukesh Chhabra proves that he is deft at handling emotional scenes but as far as the choice of his subject is concerned, he comes a cropper

In spite of the fact that Sethu’s cinematography is quite eye-filling and the production designing (by Amit Ray and Subrata Chakraborty) is nice, the bitter truth is that though Aarif Sheikh’s editing is sharp, the film at times falls flat as far as its proceedings are concerned since there are boring moments in the film whose pace is painfully slow and the saving grace of the film is that it is only 1 hour 41 minutes long. A.R. Rahman’s music is good but then, you feel the absence of a super-hit score sorely and ‘Main Tumhara’ is the only savior. Also the background music by Rahman leaves a lot to be desired

To sum up, watch this film only for the sake of Sushant Singh Rajput, though it lacks the impact of Akhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se or Anand or Safar