Ladies vs <PERSON>
Well, it's not Band Baaja Baaraat, but what is? This kinda gets closer than most, with the same two leads again becoming sexually tense business partners, and the same director relying on their chemistry to carry him when the script doesn't.
The problem here is that it's a weaker script, so we end up with a lesser movie. That the romance feels earned at all is a product of that chemistry and nothing else; the movie itself makes no real case for it, and that leads to a kind of hollow finish to an otherwise very fun con-rom-com.
It's one of those comedies that rarely makes you laugh but almost always makes you smile, and the supporting ladies, particularly <PERSON>, are all great.
Spoilers follow.
As with Band Baaja Baaraat, but much moreso this time, <PERSON>'s character also gets off way too light in the end, facing effectively zero consequences for his legitimately heinous actions. A smarter version of the same story might have spent twenty minutes on <PERSON> torturing him before catching feelings to at least give him some payback, but here he gets a pretty minor, temporary, and mostly off-screen heartbreak and nothing else for a pretty heinous up to that moment life. It's hard to feel like the girls won in this one, and the premise kind of demands that they do.
The songs, the cast, and the vibes are good enough for a thumbs up, but it's hard to describe the script as anything but a disappointment. 292