Anvita Dutt’s dialogue-writing is another matter, mostly fortune-cookie trite (“The answer to the future lies in the past") and sometimes, just plain silly (“I’m not useless. She collaborated with comic Anuvab Pal-who may have had a hand in some of the more outlandish gags, like the weird throat-clearing doctor or the grain of rice inscribed with the Hanuman Chalisa -and Sri Rao on the screenplay, which builds to an emotional crescendo that’s pat but satisfying. In her first film as director, Mehra moves everything along briskly but is unable to add her own visual touch to the impossibly bright and beautiful Dharma house style (the other producer is Excel Entertainment). Personally, I found the film’s admonitions of Jai rather simplistic-especially the repeated suggestion that being a gifted mathematician (he’s solved Fermat’s last theorem!) and a good family man are somehow incompatible.Īlso read: Why Nitya Mehra doesn’t like reality Whether or not you find the film resonant might depend on whether you buy the idea that a life’s course can be altered by a dramatic change in attitude on one important day, or whether it’s the accumulation of years of hurt or joy that ultimately decides our trajectories.
Like Adam Sandler in Click-a film Baar Baar Dekho bears some resemblance to- Jai attempts to alter his destiny by changing his behaviour: making more time for his kids, being a more attentive husband. Jai assumes the boy is getting married but eventually realizes that he and Diya are there to finalize their divorce. His son picks him up, takes him to court. Their marriage also seems to be cracking apart. They’ve moved to England he’s a mathematics professor at Cambridge, and the two of them are having a baby. The next morning, it’s a jump of two years. He’s married, on his honeymoon in Thailand with Diya. When he wakes up, he’s somehow been transported 10 days into the future, with no memory of the intervening time. He tells Diya he needs to concentrate on his academic career, breaks off the engagement and drinks himself to sleep. When Diya (Katrina Kaif) proposes marriage, Jai (Sidharth Malhotra) agrees but is soon overwhelmed by the build-up to the wedding.
The idea that life is made up of a few key moments-as opposed to a multitude of largely mundane ones-is at the heart of Nitya Mehra’s film. It’s no coincidence that Baar Baar Dekho begins this way.
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