Kunal
Kohli’s
attempt
to
bottle
the
essence
of
Gen
Z
in
Bobby
Aur
Rishi
Ki
Love
Story
remains
superficial,
observes
Deepa
Gahlot.
Bobby
Aur
Rishi
Ki
Love
Story
has
the
silliest
meet
cute
imaginable.
The
guy
is
standing
outside
the
ladies’
toilet,
stopping
women
from
going
in!
The
girl
manages
to
get
past
him,
so
he
starts
following
her.
Their
flights
from
Heathrow
have
been
cancelled,
and
she
just
takes
off
on
a
whim
to
Cambridge.
He
attaches
himself
to
her,
all
the
while
claiming
he
is
not
a
stalker.
Bobby
Aur
Rishi
Ki
Love
Story,
directed
by
Kunal
Kohli,
tries
to
get
elements
of
Before
Sunrise
(a
cult
1995
film,
so
almost
sacrilegious
to
copy
it),
and
his
own
Hum
Tum
(which
was
borrowed
from
When
Harry
Met
Sally).
Bobby
(Kaveri
Kapur)
keeps
trying
to
push
Rishi
(Vardaan
Puri)
away
but
also
acts
flirty.
They
end
up
spending
a
‘magical’
(his
word)
day
together
but
at
the
time
of
parting,
she
does
not
want
to
take
the
connection
further.
He
gets
disappointed
by
her
attitude.
The
story
is
narrated
in
flashback
to
a
therapist
(Lillete
Dubey)
because
the
two
are
having
trouble
in
their
relationship
—
which,
seeing
as
how
immature
and
downright
silly
they
came
across,
they
were
not
prepared
for
in
any
case.
They
run
into
each
other
again,
and
the
spark
is
reignited.
But
Bobby’s
psychobabble
excuse
for
keeping
him
at
arm’s
length
is
that
her
parents
have
an
unhappy
marriage.
She
has
had
a
couple
of
nasty
break-ups
too,
and
is
afraid
of
commitment.
When
she
is
ready
for
it,
he
is
unavailable.
Unlike
other
popular
romcoms,
the
two
characters
here
are
ditzy.
Despite
drizzles
of
pseudo-profound
lines
and
a
ponderous
voiceover
by
Rishi,
they
are
just
never
likeable
enough
to
care
about.
The
script
does
not
get
close
enough
to
figure
out
what
they
are
all
about.
People
who
are
constantly
indecisive
in
real
life
are
annoying,
so
watching
Bobby
do
the
coquettish
pull-push
dance
around
Rishi,
who
is
at
least
sincere,
makes
her
come
across
as
flaky
instead
of
cute.
Kaveri’s
little
girl
voice
that
works
when
she
is
portrayed
as
a
student
grates
when
she
is
seen
as
a
grown
up.
If
the
lead
pair
is
unable
to
pull
its
weight,
a
film
is
helped
along
by
its
supporting
cast.
This
one,
with
the
exception
of
Lillete
Dubey,
has
a
bunch
of
obvious
amateurs,
who
cannot
add
any
heft.
So
even
though
there
is
some
amount
of
humour
in
the
interactions
between
Bobby
and
Rishi,
they
exist
in
an
emotional
void.
That
makes
the
weepy-sounding
Punjabi
songs
ineffective
too.
The
styling
of
the
two
actors
is
youthful
and
trendy
but
Kohli’s
attempt
to
bottle
the
essence
of
Gen
Z
remains
superficial.
Bobby
Aur
Rishi
Ki
Love
Story
streams
on
Disney+Hotstar
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Aur
Rishi
Ki
Love
Story Review
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