Qarib Qarib Single Hindi Movie Review

Not just the spell the film is itself a little hatke. Well with Irrfan in the film you expect, the unexpected. The film is an amusing take on relationships. Reminiscent of Lunch Box, here too the tale is of two strangers whose lives get connected inexplicably and intricately – two mature persons and not the cinematic types. They are as different as chalk ad cheese and yet meet up through a dating website. Interesting world this!! New platforms, new insights and new opportunities. Oh! The world is sure shrinking to throw up huge differences.
So, we have Yogi (Irrfan) who talks nineteen to the dozen, wears his heart on his sleeve and has a treasure of cynical one liners that can light up the screen. On the other we have a single lady Jaya (Parvathy) a hesitant social animal who prefers playing a neighbours help mate and care taker than be a party animal, though successful in the corporate world. Her world revolves around her bro on skype and an office colleague who is nudging her to light up her social life. The two meet up through a dating website. He is completely himself and she is always cynical. He talks of the three women in his life and is pompous of how they would be missing him. She is the reality check to life and does not believe in the usual romantic relationships though she herself has been married and widowed.
They embark upon a road journey that takes them though Hrishikesh, Bikaner and Gangtok. His open lifestyle and her cuddled approach is always going to clash. They do. Yet her bottled emotions are bound to break loose. You are kept guessing as to when and how it would in the two hour journey that makes the film.

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No, this film may not have a great story to be proud of. It has a crisp narrative style that keeps you engrossed. Most importantly it fills you with moments that touch your heart and appeal to common sense and yet reaches out to the human element. The story line is an excuse for the cinematographer (Eyeshot Narayan), the dialogue writer and two wonderful actors. Like Nimrat Kaur, we have Parvathi who has wonderful unpretentious screen presence and has a great chemistry going with Irrfan. Hope to see a lot more of her, simply because she is so so different from the regular box office queens. Irrfan is his usual brilliant self. Never fails to surprise you. He offers nothing new but is so fresh as always. His very presence has an eclectic effect on the script and gives the film the right touch of authenticity.
Grammatically similar to Lunch Box, yet at the core philosophically different this is an outing unhesitatingly recommended for those who like to see a film without all the noise dust and din.

L. Ravichander.