They should have just compiled the songs, a couple of them hummable, in a CD, instead.

The film lacks a strong conflict line. The whole racial thing in Australia emerges as the most touching part of ‘Yaariyan’.

Its stuffed with banal but infectious songs that lodge themselves in your head like Yo! Yo! Honey Singh’s aaj blue hai pani pani. But everything else in this film is a train-wreck.

Yaariyan may be targeted at a young audience but every single teenager who chooses to watch it will be insulting their own intelligence.

Yaariyan talks about a whole lot of other things – friendship, trust, patriotism, race attacks and tolerance – but makes no sense at all.

It would make perfect sense to give this film a miss.

Strictly for those who want to enjoy the songs on the big screen, the rest can go revisit Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander the best college campus film of all time!

It would be an understatement to say such a disastrous film wasn’t made in a long long time and Yaariyan now ranks amongst one of those odd films that hit every Friday and move by without anyone noticing them.

Lots of action, lost of attempt to create drama, and not-so-great dialogues take over the movie.

Avoid watching the film.

Only for the teenagers and college goers who believe in unbelievable. ‘NO’ to everyone else.

The story is regressive, silly and just about everything in the film looks fake, including the acting. The only one I felt sorry for was Deepti Naval. Surely, she deserves better than this. And so do we.

A self-indulgent, dumb movie, intolerable from the word go. The only bright point in this otherwise forgettable experience is this actress, Rakul Preet Singh.

Hopefully we’ll get to watch more of her in some other film but you certainly need to avoid this one.

With no plot, horrid screenplay and horrendous performances, Yaariyan, in short, is the example that movie-making is not everybody’s business. Stay away

… no brownie points for making a film like this. Yaariyan with its synthetic characters and artificial emotion has the depth and intelligence of a seedy music video. Steer clear!

Very rarely, do I say this about a film, but this once I have to – there go two and a half hours of my life.