Tongue firmly in cheek, Amit Sahni’s list makes Mills & Boon seem like Shakespeare. But despite all its clichéd strengths this film got made and even found a few dozen time slots at the popular multiplex near your house. So if you’re bored of the 5000th episode of your favourite TV soap. Go give Virr Das a chance. He’s trying hard to break the comedian image and find a niche with the romantic crowd. Who knows, perhaps after you spend a thousand rupees watching this film, you might get the joke.

Suffice it to say that the dips and curves in the narrative all add up to an experience that leaves us smiling and sometimes chuckling.

Amit Sahni…, on the other hand, is a movie that never really had any ambition to begin with. A standard story of a typically yuppie investment banker (Das as an awkward version of himself) is looking for love based on a list he made in college after a bad break-up. It appears to be a painful rehash of familiar plot-lines from sitcoms like Seinfeld, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, and more.

Director Ajay Bhuyan uses a number of devices to overstretch his story: speech bubbles, voice-overs, flashbacks, etc. Everything is spelt out and reiterated, but in some smart, entertaining and contemporary touches, Bhuyan shows his potential as a film-maker. Das’ acting skills augment these scenes.

The message that like jewellery, love also demands some imperfection to be lasting, is more spoon-fed than heart felt. The soapy treatment makes it worth a wait for the film’s television premiere.