HAMARI ADHURI KAHANI
What happens when you have a great recipe of 'Shahi Paneer' by a Master Chef of in your hand but as you start making it you are tempted to add just a little more of salt to get the better out of it and by mistake you end up adding much more than required without realizing you even serve it to your guests and once in their plates, nothing can be done. The result is that the taste of paneer, cream or any masala will not be able to save the dish, if salt goes wrong and after its served!

The only reason i am comparing this to a recipe is because it was like that for Mohit Suri. I am sure the story that came from the Masterchef ; Mahesh Bhatt was different from what we see in the movie. Mahesh Bhatt is the man who made 'Zakhm' . It showed the love,strength, sacrifices of a woman left by her husband(leading a second life), Everyone loved it! And the protagonist of Suri is a woman who is in love with a rich man but her' Mangal Sutra' stops her from going to him, even when her husband is a psychotic bastard, who left her and has been away for 5 years ! Here is a billionaire who is head over heels in love, wants to marry her, give her and her son a name and a life that they can only dream of but not even thinking about her son she stays stuck to the same old guy and her 'mangal sutra' !

The Dialogues are cliché and pathetic, so much so that in a few emotional scenes you just don't connect, all because of dialogues. The scene where the billionaire enters his presidential suite and finds the florist decorating his room and that conversation, could have been made a little less dramatic. So much of philosophy was not required in each and every scene.

Having said all of that i would like to add that all the actors have tried their level best to drag the movie on their shoulders.

Emraan Hashmi is a treat to watch, he suits the character of a rags to riches boy who has had a disturbed childhood. Vidya Balan was the perfect choice and her tears look convincing too but the dialogues.....Rajkumar Rao did not get much of screen presence but whatever little he did, he tried his best to fit the shoes of a obsessed husband, and he did look one. It felt good to see Namit Das back in a movie with Emraan after 'Ghanchakkar' , for a little role but the actor that he is did justice to whatever scenes he got.

Music is brilliant! When the songs play it acts like a soothing balm. Songs stay in the minds even after the movie finishes. Not one but the entire album has that quality.

Great acting, brilliant music but bad screenplay or rough editing, one of them became a hindrance in the way of what this movie could have been.

It does try to touch the areas or raise questions about women equality, the institution of marriage, Love outside marriage etc, but just brushing on such issues.
In a time when we have had movies about solid female characters like NH-10, MARY KOM, QUEEN...to see a woman crying in every scene was not pleasant for me.

All in all if you are a fan of the actors do watch but without expectations.

* Strictly my opinion!