‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ , starring Mawra Hocane and Harshvardhan Rane, not to be confused with the ’82 film of the same name, is a manual of how Not to make a contemporary romantic film.

This cliched love story doesn’t do justice to Mawra Hocane, Harshvardhan Rane’s potential as actors…

All the time weeping — everybody weeps one by one and then they weep in unison and then again they weep some more, solo, till we come to the point where some intense, quivering sort of love happens that makes us want to slip into the final death throes while screaming, “Abe yaar Inder, shaadi kar le na, please. Otherwise we’ll marry her and put her out of her misery.”

Apart from the music, Mawra and Harshvardhan’s chemistry is the only saving grace…

Sanam Teri Kasam is excruciatingly painful. The torture it inflicts has as much to do with its length as with what transpires between the start and end points.

This is an unmitigated disaster, a travesty of the medium that only a miracle can save from sinking without a trace.

Aashiqui 2 did a good job at bringing back the 90s’ melodramatic romance back but Sanam Teri Kasam is barely as compelling.

Sanam Teri Kasam has two newcomers who deserved a better launch. Hopefully their choices after this will make us forget this dull affair.

A romantic, cloying story to avoid at all costs…

Sanam Teri Kasam is like watching Aashiqui 2; there is lots of weeping on both sides and the audiences are forced to go through so much drama.

…a decent assortment of good performances and superb music. However, the excessive length of the film will act as a biggest single drawback at the box-office.

…senseless merry-go-round! Right towards the end the director duo throw in a sickness element in the hope of salvaging the drowning ship. But no, nothing can be done because by then the ship has hit rock bottom.

By the time you reach the climax, you just want to get done with this soppy romance and get on with your own life. Also, the editor seems to have gone off to sleep somewhere in between.

…the story is decently fleshed out and all smoking guns covered. The trailer with the songs is very misleading and makes it look like one of those ‘also ran’ movies. But it isn’t like that. It is a decent story that only fails because at 154 minutes, the end is so long drawn.

Sanam Teri Kasam had potential in the form of two promising debutantes Mawra Hocane and Harshavardhan Rane, but a regressive script and over the top direction killed it from becoming more than just another tragic love story.

This one is sheer torture for its regressive take on everything, save for a few bright moments when Hocane is onscreen.

The film is satisfactorily bearable in the first half but is an absolute torment in the second half. Harshvardhan Rane and Mawra Hocane look good together and it seems like they do have a bright future in Bollywood. Apart from that, the plot of the film is utterly disastrous.

In a nutshell it’s a same old ugly duckling story which goes on for 2 hours 35 minutes…

A Long Road to Nowhere…