Luka Chuppi Hindi | 2019 | Bollywood

Luka Chuppi 

Hindi | 2019 | Bollywood

Guddu, the star reporter of a local news channel in Mathura, falls for Rashmi, a feisty young woman. The couple decides to try a live-in relationship, but what happens when their old-fashioned family members decide to pry into their lives? so this film has got good actors. But the script and the narration hardly gives any scope to them,except for Pankaj Tripathi and Khurana's attempts to lift the movie nothing much to watch.Both the lead actors try hard to make it work but sadly fails due to script.

When you try and tell a 'small town' tale, you must understand that your assumptions can backfire if the audience does not find it funny. And this film fails in the first half completely. The young man and woman, Kartik Aryan (fresh off the success of Sonu Ke Teetu Ki Sweety) and Kriti Sanon (pretty as always) have no more chemistry than a wooden bench in the park has with the trees. And the first 'daring' assumption made by the young woman: 'I want to try a 'live in' relationship because it sounds so cool and better than getting my heart broken like It did with a previous boyfriend' is just plain stupid because she does not realise that a 'live-in' relationship breaking up could be just as painful. And the second assumption that young men and women can get physical only if they are in a live in relationship or on their honeymoon its so ridiculous, you are stumped.

But in order to make it 'funny', the writers add a political gimmick. The young woman's dad runs a political party whose sole aim is to separate young couples in parks and other public spaces because 'it is against our culture'. So Kartik, he's called 'Guddu' and Kriti's 'Rashmi' escape to Gwalior to try out a 'Live-in'. While the two are happy in their love nest, we see more weird characters show up. Oh yes, the two lovebirds and their friend Abbas (Aparshakti Khurana) are perhaps the only normal people you have seen so far. Guddu's family consists of totally oddball parents, brothers (one married, the other desperate), two hanger ons (both brothers of the sister in law). Kriti's family has a mean politician dad (Vinay Pathak) and a loud goon like brother, and a mum whose face we do not see...Of course they get the super talented Pankaj Tripathi to play one of the hanger ons, wear really ghastly clothing, and make him spy on Guddu, and run after every woman... If this has not made you cringe, then Guddu and Rashmi's neighbours will make you puke in your popcorn. And please small towns are not populated with oddballs.

The funny part is the last half hour of the film. The two are accepted and brought back home. They feel guilty, and now Rashmi insists that she wants to be married properly, so she feels like a 'bahu' (daughter-in-law) of the family. Before you facepalm, the two have tried and get Guddu gets beaten up for this. Each time Rashmi escapes because her face is covered (as is the tradition). But for such laughs, are you going to give up reasoning?

The cast is great, but the story is so weak Pankaj Tripathi playing the fool cannot save the film. You do chuckle because each attempt to get married is stupider than the last. But you come away having lost two hours of your life...