Ladies vs Ricky Bahl

Ladies Vs. Ricky Behl:

What would expect from the Yash Raj manufacturing unit? Sweet to a fault, you can classify the products as diabetic. And like the ailment, it is something that declares that the rot has set in. You can take it at your own peril. The film house has made it its brand identification to have romance in the air, sweet romance in the air, youngsters brash and energetic telling some romance . Locations vary from Swiss mountains, to Punjabi farms and even Pakistan but the idea of building on just plain energy is the story line and the production process.
Coming with a pair that sold BBB to success, the film returns with the same pay slip. This time the magic is missing and repetition reduces value. Strangely the lead pair enact a screen chemistry devoid of any merit. Both individually energetic, fail to convert the combo magic.
The central character is a con man. Ricky Behl ( Ranveer Singh) is busy making mega bucks by cheating helpless gals. His three victims for the show are : Dimple Chadda ( Parineti Chopra) a Delhi lass full of beans till she and her dad are cheated by the dude. Following is the yuppie who would do anything to further her career- those MBA from some where sorts Raina ( Dippanita Sharma) and then the innocent Lucknowi prototype who believes in the virtues of the small town mind set-Saira Rashid ( Aditi Sharma)
The three decide to get even with the guy who cheated them of big money and adapts the same game plan. So we have a small time sales girl picked up: Ishika Desai (Anushka Sharma) who decides to woo the guy with the same game plan. In our cinema the hitherto smart alec can turn dud . The reverse metamorphosis takes the story of incidents a little further. Suddenly the BBB group relight the magic of the past and rich by a smooch decide that they are in lave. Hounded in the back drop by the three revenge seeking victims, Ishika denies love and when conned , walks out. Lest you imagine that the film has a different ending , you are adviced against any naiveté.
In a film with nothing much to offer, Director Maneesh Sharma offers some moments and clean performances from the cast. However it is Ranveer as the central character who some how believes in the Gulshan Grover school of acting: change costumes to change character. As the fulcrum of the story and he fails and with him the film’s narration. In contrast the three girls and full of energy and bring a high degree of life to their character. See the film , if nothing for the full of life performance from Parineeti Chopra. We have been concentrating on the wrong Chopra for years. One only hopes she does not go the Divya Dutta way and we get to see more of her. The film is about the gals Vs. the guy. What is held back from the viewer is that it is also they Vs. Us.

L.Ravichander