Ishaqzaade: Mess

Two newbies trying to make their space in the big bad world of Hindi movies. One son of a long time producer, another cousin of an established actress. What we would expect is fireworks and hardwork. What I got in Ishaqzaade was a lot of confusion.

A story of two warring political families in a small town of U.P where the leading man Arjun (Param) and Zoya belong to different castes and different traditions end up in love.

It seemed while planning this movie Habib whose last venture Do Dooni Char really touched my heart was confused between what direction he wants to take, whether he makes an out and out romantic drama or he creates a rustic political thriller with trinkles of romance. The movie had flaws and a lot of them.Lets get into it.

Firstly, the script failed because it kept changing the basic premise of the movie. We start of with a political drama which turns into a love story, back to politics, suddenly to a romantic thriller. It looked like the writers wanted to put in a lot and ended up created a hashed out product.

The actors just could not convince me at any point. Arjun Kapoor or Param just could not pull of a rustic village vagabond, he could not give the character any fire. On the other hand Zoya lost me on the first scene because she went all out and lacked restraint that was required to pull of a rebel girl with flair. Both of these actors need to find their space to continue in this industry. Someone said to me that Parineeti Chopra is just not leading girl material and I agree.

Their character arc was in shambles from the start and it kept falling or downgrading in every scene.

The premise of the movie is the love story but the characters fall in love way too easily the transition from hate to love is astoundingly amateurish. Even their interactions fail to ignite the passion needed from lovers.

What follows is some insensible and unbelievable plot twists somehow it felt that the director had set himself on an ending towards which he took the movie in anyway possible. The climax was also too cluttered and unconvincing.

I saw no spark of brilliance from either actors and Parineeti who was amazing in Ladies v Ricky Behl somehow lost that grasp of character and gave me an unsatisfying performance. Arjun Kapoor was baseless and had no sensible acting talent on display, I could seriously doubt whether he is leading man material.

This movie could be given a miss and you could find something better to do surely.