Movie Review Of Baar Baar Dekho

“Baar Baar Dekho” is a romantic drama and Sri Rao has written the story for the film, besides penning the screenplay in collaboration with Nitya Mehra and Anuvab Pal. Anvita Dutt has written the dialogues for the movie, which has been produced by Karan Johar, Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under the banners of Dharma Productions and Excel Entertainment.

“Baar Baar Dekho” traces a unique and unusual love story that spans over 30 years. But the movie is neither science fiction nor does it revolve around time travel. The movie deals with how Jai Varma (Sidharth Malhotra) and Diya Varma (Katrina Kaif) ride the ups and down of their relationship through the test of time. The film is a roller-coaster ride of Jai and Diya.

Story of Baar Baar Dekho

Jai (Sidharth) and Diya (Katrina) are childhood friends who are in love with each other. Jai is a Mathematics professor in Delhi and Diya is an artist. When Diya proposes marriage to a commitment-phobic Jai who wants to move to Cambridge and teach there, the discussion somehow reaches Diya’s father (Ram Kapoor).

The night before their wedding, Diya and Jai have a fight and the girl leaves, saying she was never coming back. Jai makes the most of the bottle of champagne at hand and drifts off to sleep. Only to wake up next to Diya on his honeymoon, in Thailand. He finds out he’s been married for ten days, but has no recollection whatsoever of the last ten days.  Every time Jai goes to sleep, he wakes up in a different year, a different time and place. He doesn’t know what is happening to him. And for most part of Baar Baar Dekho, the audience is on the same page as Jai: clueless about what is happening on the screen in front of them.

And that is the moment when time travel — of sorts — enter the picture. Sidharth Malhotra is given the ability to see some crucial moments of his future. Will a peek into tomorrow change his today?

The film tells this story and intersperses it with a hummable track, dance-worthy numbers — Kala Chashma, anyone — and sizzling chemistry between the lead pair. However, as the couple ages, the chinks in the armour start showing. Some of the twists are hard to digest, just like over-the-top acting.

In all, watch Baar Baar Dekho if you swear by the newer, fitter, leaner, hotter Katrina Kaif and her abs. There’s nothing much to watch otherwise.

Rating: 2.5/5