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Business rating: 0.5/5 star
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What’s Good: Hardly anything!
What’s Bad: The poorly-written screenplay; the insipid and boring drama; the average performances.
Verdict: Yeh Dooriyan will flop miserably at the box-office.
Loo break: Several.
Watch or Not?: It is best to keep your distance from Yeh Dooriyan.
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V1 Creation and SiroyaFM’s Yeh Dooriyan is the story of a divorced woman who has to bear the brunt of the society’s orthodox rules.
Simi Nagpal (Deepshikha Nagpal) is a 35-year-old divorcee who lives with her two kids, a girl (baby Vidhika) and a boy (master Vivaan). While she is successful in her choreography career and has a happy family life otherwise, Simi secretly yearns for the company of a man who will accept and love her and her children. Her parents and friends also insist that she should find a suitable mate and get married once again.
While on a holiday with Nikki (Chitrasi Rawat) and Bobby (Delnaz Paul), two of her employees from her dancing academy, Simi meets Raj (Kaishav Arora), a young model. Raj, who is apparently smitten by Simi, follows her back to the city and joins her dancing academy. Bit by bit, Raj wins over Simi’s confidence by developing a bond with her kids. Soon, Simi and Raj’s friendship turns into love. Simi even takes Raj to meet her parents and friends. After Raj assures her that he is serious about the relationship, they both start sleeping together.
On one such morning, when Simi is at Raj’s place, Raj’s mother (Kunika Lal) arrives unannounced. She insults Simi and asks Raj not to continue his relationship with Simi, as it was against societal norms. Slowly, Raj relents and stops seeing Simi. On the other hand, Simi’s ex-husband, Aditya (Inder Kumar), shows up and wants her back. What happens next? Where does Raj go? Who does Simi decide to be with – Raj or Aditya? What about her kids? The rest of the film answers these questions.
Deepshikha’s story is well-intentioned as it tries to depict the issue of divorced women’s remarriage. However, her screenplay, which is rather poorly-written, pulls the film down. Right from the word ‘go’, the audience is bombarded with clichéd scenes and interactions between the characters that lead to nothing. The relationships between the characters, whether they are amicable or hateful, don’t ring true at all. For example, Simi loves her kids dearly but she goes for parties and on holidays with friends, leaving the kids behind. The climax is very disappointing. The dialogues, penned by Deepshikha, are terribly childish.
Deepshikha Nagpal’s performance is okay. She looks the age of the character and acts ably but the insipid drama negates it all. Kaishav Arora doesn’t have the looks of a hero, in spite of his muscled body, which he flaunts a lot. Also, he needs serious lessons in acting. He is expressionless. Inder Kumar overacts. Chitrasi Rawat and Delnaz Paul do average jobs in their small roles. Baby Vidhika, master Vivaan, Kunika Lal, Achint Kaur, Rajesh Khera, Shishir Sharma and Manini Dey fill the bill. Ayub Khan is wasted in a cameo appearance which does not make much sense.
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Deepshikha’s direction is terribly poor. She is not able to get the viewer interested in the drama, leave alone maintain the curiosity value. It is certainly not easy to don too many hats while making a film, but then, Deepshikha has failed in almost all of them. The film has four songs that come and go without creating much of an impact. The music (by Raju Singh, Meet Bros. Anjaan, Amjad-Nadeem) is okay and should have been more far better. Lyrics (by Kumaar, Shabbier Ahmed, Kunwar Juneja, Priya Panchal) are ordinary. Background score, by Sanjoy Chowdhary, is poor. Shamim Khan’s cinematography is alright. Editing, by Ballu Saluja, is average.
On the whole, Yeh Dooriyan is a poor fare which will meet with a disastrous fate at the box-office windows.
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