She has a great deal of natural charisma and is dressed and made up in interesting ways. (The songs in the film are all awful, by the way.)Īs Seher, Amyra Dastur shines in comparison.
On top of all that, he is a bad dancer and has no presence as a supposed singer (his character is an aspiring musician in the film) and so his ascent to fame in the film is laughably implausible. Anyone who watches a lot of Hindi cinema will know that turning a self-pitying manchild into a sympathetic character is the stock and trade of male stars such as Salman Khan or Shah Rukh Khan, but this is not achieved here by a longshot. As written, the character is winy, immature and petulant and Tanwar does nothing to make him someone we can root for. Why anyone would fall in love with him or, from the audience point-of-view, care about his character at all is beyond me. First time star Anirudh Tanwar has something less than zero charisma and should return to producing, which is how he seems to have started out in the film business. The film’s biggest fault however is that Kabir is the Indian food equivalent of a wet noodle (a soggy bhaji?). Director Leena Yadav cannot hold these plots together effectively and the film suffers from a lack of storyline balance (we forget about the Facebook ruse for large chunks of the movie, likewise with the mother’s death, the friends’ subplots, and so on) as well as an uneven tone which unsuccessfully tries to swing from comedy to earnest melodrama several times. Not only is it a major violation of privacy played for romcom laughs, but it is also extremely weird that a father’s chat messages would be sexually attractive to his son to the point of him falling passionately in love with the fictitious Tara.įrom here, the film only goes downhill as it attempts to combine the slapstick hijinks of Raj and his friends scurrying around and maintaining the ruse with a somber plotline about Kabir’s attempts to deal with his grief and the reality of his father’s precarious finances. The film’s premise, as mentioned above, is creepy on a number of levels. Rajma Chawal is a mess of a film that fails to bring together its various plot machinations into a coherent movie, and which also suffers from exceptionally poor casting in its lead roles.
Misunderstandings and shenanigans ensue as Raj pays Seher (a hairdresser who, in one of the film’s somewhat interesting euphemisms, also “dates” men for their money) to go along with the ruse but ultimately finds herself falling in love with Kabir. Kabir quickly falls in love with the fictional Tara, as the family has named her, only to meet the girl from the photo, Seher (Amyra Dastur) at a concert his band is performing.
Kabir has been struggling with the death of his mother as well as the family’s move from New Delhi to his father’s old neighborhood in Old Delhi. In one of the creepier premises in recent Hindi cinema, a recently widowed father, Raj (Rishi Kapoor) and his mother and friends decide to “catfish” Raj’s emotionally distant twentysomething son Kabir (Anirudh Tanwar) by making up a Facebook profile with the picture of an attractive young woman they find online. Rajma Chawal (Leena Yadav, 2018) – Global Acquisition – Romcom/Melodrama
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