Cast: Himash Kohli, Rakul Preet, Gulshan Grover, Deepti Naval, Nicole Faria, Dev Sharma, Shreyas Pardiwalla.
Director: Divya Kumar Khosla
When a new director comes to helm of affairs, he/she tries to invest every ounce of their basics and nuances of the film-making. This is what exactly hampered the smoothness and sensitivity of YAARIYAN which is outdated, wannabe, and uncool. Not that its a boring and intolerable film, but the root of the film is inherited from too many films and yet it suffers on account of failing in putting up even a decent show. The film never sets firmness about in which way it has to go. It is a convoluted plot that further stumbles into a climax, unbelievably mundane, which seems like it lasted for half a day. Yes, that long!
But as marked earlier, YAARIYAAN is not entirely dumb. It has some genuinely funny moments irrespective of how unoriginal it is. Like the one where the boys emerge impostor in girl's dress-up so as to convince one of their female friend's father. These are the buoyant moments that are atleast not harmful in a film which is sentimentally manipulative. Also the light-hearted tone of the film is nicely intact throughout despite you see cheesy hot girls exposing as if there is no tomorrow.
YAARIYAN's pace is down in one scene and up in the other one. It never really connects through the characters, thanks to inept writing, but as I pointed it never really bores you to death. The first half is nicely soft and simple and pretty much hooking. Also the songs are wonderfully shot, especially the Abcd song, Sunny Sunny song and the Meri Maa song.
But the film's important plot, that contains a stupid challenge, is where the film looks silly the most. The director tries her hand in infusing just about everything in the film, even patriotism that feels artificial, and yet the film doesn't come out properly with even a single genre.
Save for some excellent songs that contributes for YAARIYAN's half the life. The songs have a beautiful feel and pretty much draws your attention. Also the cinematography has to be lauded because it gives a very vibrant look to the film. Although, I wonder if the film had some writers or not! The writing is disgusting and annoying. The director never really turns the film's fortunes upside down, but she does knows how to extract comical expressions from a cast that is rather frail.
The lead boy does show some confidence playing the frivolous boy who suddenly transforms to innocence when a big event hurts his life. But he also has a very stereotypical traits that take away from hi character. Rakul Preet decently approaches the role, despite being a very restricted work. Deepti Naval is the best actor of the lot who brings much required vulnerability to the table in a small role. The other heroines does what they have been hired for- look hot!
Cutting long story short, YAARIYAN is too average a film to call it the "popcorn film". Some truly funny moments and excellent music may entice you, but the film also packs up lot of superficiality, lot of silliness lot of unintentional fun. Decide for yourself!
Rating - 2/5
Director: Divya Kumar Khosla
When a new director comes to helm of affairs, he/she tries to invest every ounce of their basics and nuances of the film-making. This is what exactly hampered the smoothness and sensitivity of YAARIYAN which is outdated, wannabe, and uncool. Not that its a boring and intolerable film, but the root of the film is inherited from too many films and yet it suffers on account of failing in putting up even a decent show. The film never sets firmness about in which way it has to go. It is a convoluted plot that further stumbles into a climax, unbelievably mundane, which seems like it lasted for half a day. Yes, that long!
But as marked earlier, YAARIYAAN is not entirely dumb. It has some genuinely funny moments irrespective of how unoriginal it is. Like the one where the boys emerge impostor in girl's dress-up so as to convince one of their female friend's father. These are the buoyant moments that are atleast not harmful in a film which is sentimentally manipulative. Also the light-hearted tone of the film is nicely intact throughout despite you see cheesy hot girls exposing as if there is no tomorrow.
YAARIYAN's pace is down in one scene and up in the other one. It never really connects through the characters, thanks to inept writing, but as I pointed it never really bores you to death. The first half is nicely soft and simple and pretty much hooking. Also the songs are wonderfully shot, especially the Abcd song, Sunny Sunny song and the Meri Maa song.
But the film's important plot, that contains a stupid challenge, is where the film looks silly the most. The director tries her hand in infusing just about everything in the film, even patriotism that feels artificial, and yet the film doesn't come out properly with even a single genre.
Save for some excellent songs that contributes for YAARIYAN's half the life. The songs have a beautiful feel and pretty much draws your attention. Also the cinematography has to be lauded because it gives a very vibrant look to the film. Although, I wonder if the film had some writers or not! The writing is disgusting and annoying. The director never really turns the film's fortunes upside down, but she does knows how to extract comical expressions from a cast that is rather frail.
The lead boy does show some confidence playing the frivolous boy who suddenly transforms to innocence when a big event hurts his life. But he also has a very stereotypical traits that take away from hi character. Rakul Preet decently approaches the role, despite being a very restricted work. Deepti Naval is the best actor of the lot who brings much required vulnerability to the table in a small role. The other heroines does what they have been hired for- look hot!
Cutting long story short, YAARIYAN is too average a film to call it the "popcorn film". Some truly funny moments and excellent music may entice you, but the film also packs up lot of superficiality, lot of silliness lot of unintentional fun. Decide for yourself!
Rating - 2/5
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