FROTHY AND ENGAGING

The dialogues too are worth a mention and are delivered with gusto.

Ayushmann Khurana, with his intellectual demeanour, plays the flurried pulp writer Abhimanyu Roy with panache. With natural ease, he internalises his character and communicates his affection through his intense gaze. He is sincere and endearing in his portrayal and it shows.

Meri Pyaari Bindu

STARRING: Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra, Aparajita Adhya and Abish Mathew

DIRECTOR: Akshay Roy HHHHH

Meri Pyaari Bindu from the Yash Raj Films (YRF) stable is a sincere yet frothy tale, designed from a pulp novel. And like your average pulp fiction, this film is light-hearted fluff, racy and engaging. Designed as a catharsis, it is the tale of a successful pulp writer Abhimanyu Roy aka Bubla, who has compiled novellas like ‘Chudail Ki Choli’, ‘Dracula’s Lover’ and ‘Das Cabin’, among others.

On the insistence of his publisher, Abhimanyu is forced to write a romance, which he does begin but is stuck between his real life heartache and imagination. He finds it difficult to chronicle his thoughts about this “unpredictable, impatient, imperfect, crazy, restless and larger than life, livewire girl” called Bindu, who was once his neighbour and who over a period of time crept into his life and soul.

So, when Abhi returns home and stumbles upon an old audio cassette with their favourite playlist, it sends him down memory lane and his novel unravels speedily, juxtaposing his past and present.

With a good dose of old Hindi film songs and titbits as transitions, metaphors and analogies, the treatment of the chaotically jumbled script along with the screenplay, is astutely handled. The plot moves at a frenzied pace regaling the ecstasy and agony of Abhimanyu and Bindu.

While the plot is well-charted, it is the conflict and the resolution that disappoint. The film lacks substance in terms of oomph and other exploiting factors that make for engrossing viewing. The non-linear narrative style, at times, creates confusion with the timelines.