Rashmi decides to live-in with Guddu in order to know him better. Guddu, in a heated argument, challenges his elder brother that he will marry first and proposes Rashmi (WOW).
Guddu and Rashmi, coming from two very different families, fall in love with each other. Rashmi’s father (Vinay Pathak) is a politician who is against the live-in culture and blatantly oppose it publicly. Guddu meets Rashmi “She doesn’t have a pet name” Trivedi (Kriti Sanon), who wants to be a journalist and gets the job in the same news channel. He comes from a very ordinary family, having an elder brother unmarried, a crazy uncle and a blackmailing nephew. Mathura’s Vinod “Guddu” Shukla is a reporter of a news channel, and its name is as predictable as the basic plot of this film – Mathura Live. Watch or Not?: In a theater? NO! It’s a movie serving nothing, you can watch it with zero expectations and yet there’s a great chance you’ll get disappointed! Loo Break: You will require some real guts to go back in, once you’re out in the happy & beautiful world! What’s Bad: When someone is assigned a job and he/she couldn’t finish it! Luka Chuppi’s job was to entertain me through comedy or the emotional connect, it failed in every sector and I have an issue with those comedies can’t make me laugh (I am someone who laughs even at the silliest jokes possible) What’s Good: The basic plot behind making the movie is pretty interesting but you can’t stretch a chewing gum after a point, just the mere presence of Pankaj Tripathi! I’m going with two stars.Star Cast: Kartik Aaryan and his annoying made-up dialect, Kriti Sanon’s cuteness (at places), a supremely wasted Pankaj Tripathi, (Why)nay? Pathak, Alka I-Mean Why?, Aparshakti (Yahan) Kyun-aana?ĭirector: (Sab nahi bana paate movies) – Laxman – Utekar Luka Chuppi Movie Review: It’s All About Finding The Missing Story, Sense & Substance! Lukka Chuppi features five remixes which is a sign of the larger issue with the film – there just isn’t enough freshness or flair here. Which is a laudable sentiment but it feels tacked on rather than organic to the film. At the end, Guddu and Rashmi make some pertinent points about India being a young country and what the youth want – not moral policing and division but development and advancement. But neither is dazzling enough to camouflage the lazy writing.ĭirector Laxman Utekar also ambitiously attempts to tack on a social angle. In a few scenes, Kartik manages to make Guddu’s turmoil somewhat endearing.
The script gives them a role reversal – so Rashmi is the dominant, more rebellious partner who suggests that they live-in while Guddu is the shy and hesitant one. Which is also the issue with the leads – Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon. But there just isn’t enough spark in the writing. I also enjoyed the warmth and wisdom of Alka Amin who plays the Guddu’s bewildered but supportive mom. Aparshakti, as Guddu’s poker-faced friend Abbas, gets a few good lines. The comic flourishes are underlined by annoyingly loud background music, which cues us to laugh but so little of Luka Chuppi is actually funny. Scenes are stretched endlessly and the humour is limp. The writing by Rohan Shankar is consistently feeble. An actor who needs a single scene to make an impact – remember Masaan – is scrambling because he doesn’t get one good line. So I knew we were in trouble when I saw him reduced to a buffoonish sidekick wearing outlandish clothes. In the last few years, Tripathi has become shorthand for quality. The film has the ingredients to be an amiable comedy – the cultural clash between traditional families and modern youth, the sights and sounds of small-town India and Aparshakti Khurana and Pankaj Tripathi, both veterans of this space, in key roles. They do this by pretending to be married. Luka Chuppi is a tiresome tale of a couple from Mathura, Guddu and Rashmi, who decide to experiment with a live-in relationship.