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Here's what the critics are saying about Meri Pyaari Bindu, starring Parineeti Chopra, Ayushmann Khurrana, Aparajita Auddy, Abish Mathew and Malvika Sitlani.

As befits a Yashraj production, everything else is in place. Much of it is set in Calcutta, before it became Kolkata, and Bubla’s large, loving, boisterous carom-playing Bengali family is spot on. Read the complete movie review here.

The story is narrated through a set of songs ranging from Md Rafi and Asha Bhosle’s Abhi Na Jao Chhor Ke (Hum Dono, 1961) to Aarti Mukherjee’s Do Naina Aur Ek Kahaani (Masoom, 1960) and Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar’s Disco 82 (Khuddaar, 1980). Read the complete movie review here.

We are introduced to Abhimanyu when he is struggling with his 'love story', a project he needs to get out of the way before another visit from his publisher happens. He hasn't written a book for three years. He is struggling with a severe case of writer's block. Read the complete movie review here.

What’s good about a love story if we don’t care about the lovers?

A couple of hours after Meri Pyaari Bindu, nothing of the film remains on the mind. Not that one feels any more connected as it was unspooling on-screen. The love story of Abhimanyu Roy (Ayushmann Khurrana) and Bindu Shakarnarayanan (Parineeti Chopra) is one of the least appealing and absorbing to have come out of Bollywood lately.

• Director: Akshay Roy
• Starring: Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra
• Run time: 119 minutes

For any love story to click, there has to be some engagement with the lovers. Here, one couldn’t be bothered about them. Parineeti Chopra returns to screen, fitter and trimmer and raring to go, but her Bindu remains a potentially interesting character—what with her childhood issues, ambition, fickleness—that doesn’t graduate into becoming a fully realised one. Perhaps because we see only that much of her as Abhimanyu will allow us and it comes with his personal biases. Khurrana is his usual likeable self but his Abhimanyu is exasperating in not moving on. He is the writer of pulp fiction facing a writer’s block. Penning a romance takes him back to his one and only true love. Narrated through intercuts of the present and the past the film gets confusing with its never ending leaps of time. Hindi movie kabhi khushi kabhi gum. And the lazy, long, explanatory voiceover only makes matters more somnolent.

Forget the lead, the characters on the side—be it the parents or the friends—are equally irritating. Music cassettes were used wonderfully in evoking 90s nostalgia in Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Here it remains another 4 inch by 2.5 inch element in the background even though it is purportedly the soundtrack of the lovers’ life. There is another retro prop—the typewriter with those golden keys—and then there is Kolkata, a city caught in a time warp. None of which seem organic, but planted and too obviously constructed. And none of the elements can camouflage the sheer banality of the story. It’s this deliberate touch that prevents the whimsy from flying. A lot more charm was needed here but dullness, unfortunately, is all we get.

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