• Shashwat Sisodia
    Shashwat Sisodia
    300 reviews
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    5

    Tanuja Chandra's 'Qarib Qarib Singlle' is an effective film, if not a particularly great one. It's a romantic comedy starring Irfan Khan and Parvathi Tiruvothu, and it is certainly well-acted because both the actors are marvellous. Irfan is obviously good here, but I particularly fell for the Malayalam actress Parvathi. Despite the bland dubbing, she is lovely and lively in equal measure.

    The film is hilariously comic: light-hearted, delightfully hilarious and interestingly funny. But as a romantic, it's bland and close to profoundly uncinematic. It's an unrealistic and unrelatable chemistry of the leads that lets down an otherwise enjoyable attempt. Tanuja Chandra crafts the film with skill and charm, but the screenplay is repetitively sloppy.

    All I can say is that this is a very funny comedy, but not an affecting romantic. It's hard to feel anything in it's final acts. It's worth a watch, but it feels hard to say that it's worth repeat viewing- because maybe that might be overstating it.
    2.5/5.

    April 02, 20