Ek haseena thi, ek deewana tha--This iconic song from a now iconic film is used to pretty brilliant effect in Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba as it begins. The spectacular fall in coherence which follows however, will become iconic too. I am still reeling from the ludicrous storyline of this film which takes the words ‘artistic liberty’ to a new level.
And that is not necessarily always a good thing. (Also Read | Taapsee Pannu on Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba, Khel Khel Mein releasing in her birthday month ) The plot We meet Rani Saxena ( Taapsee Pannu ) again, a femme fatale who has men falling over her, and her husband, Rishabh Saxena (Vikrant Massey), who she is presumed to have murdered (we are shown a flashback of what happened in the first film, which is quite clever). But of course, there’s a police officer who won’t let the case close! How original.
Full marks to writer Kanika Dhillon? You be the judge. Rani, a widow now for the world, has another man entering her life, Abhimanyu (played by Sunny Kaushal), for whom it's love at first sight. He’s that guy next door who asks her out for a movie and books the entire theatre.
And when she forgets her beauty parlour stuff at home, he runs all the way behind her rickshaw just to hand it to her. But everything isn’t as it seems. Rishu and Rani are all set to run away to Thailand in one month as suspicion grows about what happened to the deceased Neel Tripathi, played by Harshvardhan Rane in the first film.
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