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There is little here that will stay with you but while it lasts, youll have a smile on your face.

The first to admire is Rajkummar Rao as Pritam Vidrohi, a mild-mannered sari salesman who is forced to play-act a badass babua.

That terrific descriptor comes from a song in the film I want it on a T-shirt.

Rajkummars conversion into these two distinct personalities is brilliant and seamless.

In fact, Pritams act is so good that Bitti, the girl in this comical love triangle, starts to find him attractive.

When Chirag admonishes him for this, Pritam looks mournful and says, Hum toh character pakad ke chal rahe the.

So when Chirags girlfriend unceremoniously dumps him, he spends the next five years pining for her.

Or you can turn your gaze on the wondrous Pankaj Tripathi, playing the father of a defiant daughter whom he loves unconditionally.

Bittis mother might look at her and say harkate dekho, laundon wali but Mr.

He understands perfectly when she says ladki hona disaster hai.

There is also the consistently good Seema Pahwa playing the hapless mom and Rohit Chaudhary, who is Chirags best friend Munna.

Watch out for the asides like a mithai ki dukan named Lavla sweets instead of Lovely sweets because in the rain, the E ki matra fell off.

The narrative, based on a French novel called Ingredients of Love, is predicable and convoluted.

Bitti reads a novel that she believes Pritam has written but actually Chirag has written it.

After much confusion and contortions, Bitti find her true love.

The small town firebrand or pataka is in imminent danger of becoming a Bollywood clich.

This year alone, we met her in Badrinath Ki Dulhania, Behen Hogi Teri and Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.

Kriti Sanon is lovely looking but she isnt very persuasive as the small town rebel.

Her edges arent frayed enough to fit into this milieu in the way that the other actors do.

Her performance is sincere but I kept feeling like she had sauntered in from a more airbrushed reality.

I exited the theatre hoping that shell give Pritam Vidrohi his own film.

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