Aditya Chopra’s Befikre is Libido Driven!
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Reviewer’s Thumb Mark
If
you can strip anywhere, for instance, on the streets, on a library table, run
around in a hotel lobby with the bed sheet wrapped around you or even at times
in your designer hot and sexy undies, show your buttocks and jump into bed at
the drop of a hat then you are indeed ‘Befikre’. According to Aditya Chopra,
please do not forget to touch the feet of your girlfriend’s parents while you
do all these and say ‘pairi pauna Mummyji and Papaji’ after all remember that you
are a decent guy, and we have been given a U/A certificate by the generous censor
board (don’t know what happened to the so called moral watchdogs this time) Isn’t
it? Does Aditya Chopra’s Befikre portray a modern love story? I doubt.
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Vaani
Kapoor has graduated from Shudd Desi Romance to Befikre and Ranveer Kapoor has
successfully tried to be a model of the brand ‘Playboy’. From Dilwale Dulhaniya
Le Jayenge’s famous “Pallat’ to Befikre’s “I was just checking out his ass”
dialogues Aditya Chopra’s growth as a filmmaker is commendable (Pun intended), isn’t
it? Befikre set in Paris is the story of
two carefree birds – Shyra Gill, a Punjabi Indian who finds pride in saying
that she is a French and Dilli Ka Ladka Dharam who lands up in Paris to be a
stand-up comedian in his friend’s Delhi Belly Bar Comedy Nights Show. What next
is a marathon of kissing, undressing, double dates, break-up and then redefining
the relationship as friendship and then again falling out of grace of even
being a friend, ending up very close to getting wedded to people who are
opposite to each other and then finally
realizing that ‘Lust is love’ err.. I mean ‘Love is lust’ err.. ‘Lust and love
are one’..err.. Whatever… God (Aditya) Knows!
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In
short, Befikre ends up as a ‘I dare You’ contest between the lead pairs where
they end up doing all nasty and obscene things in the name of romance. Befikre
also is a gentle reminder to all those wayward guys to eat ‘Punjabi Desi Alloo
Paratta’ to come back to your roots instead of having “Peanut Butter Sandwich’.
The film has a nonsensical ending, an absurd justification to prove it’s a Rom-com!
Avoid
Befikre at this trying times of demonetization when every single penny is dear
and it counts. Having said this, what Yash Chopra did with Switzerland in his
movies, Aditya does it well with Paris in Befikre. The songs and lyrics are beautiful
especially songs like - Labon Ka Karoabaar, Yeh dil Befikre, and Nashe Se Chadd
Gayi are really good and hummable. But then you can watch these videos online
at the comfort of your home.
Life Connoisseur Movie Rating: 1 /5
1.
Cast: Ranveer Singh
(Dharam), Vanni Kapoor (Shyra Gill)
Genre: Romantic
Comedy
Director:
Aditya Chopra
Producer:
Aditya Chopra
Story by:
Aditya Chopra, Sharat Katariya (Dialogues)
Screenplay:
Aditya Chopra
Music by:
Vishal-Shekhar (Songs), Mikey McCleary (Background Score)
Cinematography:
Kaname Onoyama
Edited by:
Namrata Rao
Production Company:
Yash Raj Films
Distributor:
Yash Raj Films
Release Date:
9th December, 2016
Duration:
130 Minutes
Language:
Hindi
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