“Shuddh Desi Romance,” starring Parineeti Chopra and Sushant Singh Rajput is not a typical romcom. It captures the lives of ordinary people who live in the fear of commitment and yet dare to take the leap for love every time, believe movie critics.
The film is an attempt to depict the love affairs of the modern generation. Sushant Singh Rajput plays the role of a casual boy-next-door, Raghu, and Parineeti Chopra plays the bold role of Gayatri - his lover. Newbie Vaani Kapoor plays Tara, who is also Raghu’s lover. The love-triangle gets complicated when the lives of the three cross, their beliefs get challenged, and their love gets tested.
'Shuddh Desi Romance' is not a routine love-saga, with the cliches Bollywood is known for. It offers something new. 'Shuddh Desi Romance' is a welcome change for the cynics amongst us who find typical romances like 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' filmy and unreal. The blossoming chemistry of its lead actors is a swell, but mostly this is a film that encapsulates the lives of ordinary people who perennially live in the fear of commitment and yet dare to take the leap for love every time!” says Mohar Basu of Koimoi.com.
Agrees Taran Adarsh in Bollywood Hungama: “True to its title, Shuddh Desi Romance is indeed a shuddh [pure] take at live-in relationships involving desi characters and looks at the highs and lows that come with it.”
Director Maneesh Sharma is lauded for giving a unique treatment to the movie. “Capturing the energy of the young and the restless isn’t an easy job, but director Maneesh Sharma does his job with near infallibility. It’s liberating to watch this film for the mere treatment of its basic concept. Bred on the ideas of happy endings and the regal fanfare of red roses, the director does a good job at hammering on the fact that day-to-day relationships are more about moments of insecurity, fear and lot little about ‘love’ these days,” writes Basu.
The film, according to some critics, is repetitive. “Creating a pattern out of repeated events is a classic device in romantic comedies, but it only works when there are little differences in detail with each repetition,” writes Deepanjana Pal in Firstpost.
“The only glitch in the otherwise smooth narrative is that the pacing slows down considerably in the second hour,” feels Adarsh.