Movie Review: Vaada Raha

The best thing about Vaada Raha is that Bobby Deol remains paralysed from neck down almost right through the film.

Film: Vaada Raha (Drama)
Cast: Bobby Deol, Kangana Ranaut, Dwij Yadav, Atul Agnihotri
Director: Sameer Karnik
Duration: Two hours and five minutes

The second best thing is that while Kangana Ranaut may not have had botox injected into her thin lips, she may have attempted a silicon filling. The worst thing about director Samir Karnik's final film of a trilogy (Nanhe Jaisalmer, Heroes) is its utterly pointless EQ.

We have heard the story a zillion times. Leading doctor (Bobby Deol) meets with a near-fatal accident that leaves him both bed-ridden as well as intellectually stunted. His explains his predicament to a friend: "Tu nahin samjhega. Is umar mein bed par toilet." Of course his girlfriend (Kangana) leaves him because, "I know he's a proud man and I'd rather break his heart now than make him feel indebted to me forever."

So the poor doctor, angry with life and unable to do much about it, screams, shouts and brings the hospital down with his obnoxious behaviour. Enter Roshan (Dwij Yadav), the sickeningly sweet and irritatingly cocky kid in the next room who takes it upon himself to give the doctor the only thing he really needs -- hope. Emotional atyachar at its worst.