: ‘Hum Do Hamare Do’ review: A fake family and fleeting laughs #IndiaNEWS Hum Do Hamare Do should have been a lot more fun. A movie about an orphan who pretends to have parents in order to marry

‘Hum Do Hamare Do’ review: A fake family and fleeting laughs #IndiaNEWS
Hum Do Hamare Do should have been a lot more fun. A movie about an orphan who pretends to have parents in order to marry his sweetheart could have been the stuff of rip-roaring farce. Instead, director Abhishek Jain opts for the occasional laugh and the frequent lump in the throat.Self-made entrepreneur Dhruv (Rajkummar Rao) has singlehandedly lifted himself out of poverty (it’s never explained how) and has reached the point in his life where he has everything and needs somebody to share it with. That somebody is Anya (Kriti Sanon), herself an orphan who has been brought up by her uncle Sanjeev (Manu Rishi Chadha).Dhruv lies about having parents and then backs up the lie by persuading Purushottam (Paresh Rawal) and Deepti (Ratna Pathak Shah) to play dad and mom. Purushottam and Deepti have a shared history that adds welcome meat to a barely fleshed out plot. The 126-minute movie is being streamed on Disney+ Hotstar.The story, by Abhishek Jain and Deepa Venkateshan, and the screenplay, by Prashant Jha, tries in vain to balance out the increasingly dull romance between Dhruv and Anya and the more interesting track between Purushottam and Deepti. Unlike in...Read more

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