Prem Keetanu
Comedy Romance Hindi
A group of young men and their turbulent college life, where bad grades and hopelessness remain in the driver's seat. Even as they pursue love, friendship and aspirations, the film promises to capture the current generation's struggles and dreams in a light-hearted yet heartfelt manner.
| Cast: | Veer Pahariya, Aparshakti Khurana, Aafia Syed, Rakesh Bedi, Nikhil Vijay, |
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| Director: | Apoorv Singh Karki |
| Editor: | Ritesh Soni |
| Camera: | Arjun Kukreti |
All Guild Reviews of "Prem Keetanu"
An Artificially Flavoured Romcom With No Immunity
The flat Hindi remake of ‘Premalu’ stars Vir Pahariya as a weepy slacker who somehow discovers love through the language of rejection
A mainstream remake of a non-Hindi-language movie is often a license to hijack, not adapt. If the original depends more on the treatment and cultural rhythm of an old formula, the imposter has nowhere to hide. Girish A.D.’s Malayalam romcom Premalu was about the scrambled identity of love and ambition for middle-class strivers who enter the adult world; it isn’t perfect (especially a copout airport climax), but the humorous ‘youngness’ of the film sells the point. But Apoorv Singh Karki’s Prem Keetanu is flattened by its Bollywood habits. It is tonally greedy, and the gentrified story is demarcated into genres: it starts out as a TVF-style campus-slacker comedy, morphs into a loud love triangle, collapses into echoes of an obsession tale, briefly flirts with the idea of a coming-of-age drama, and ends as a lightweight romcom. It has the grammar of a music-video montage, where every genre behaves like an entitled lover fending off one another to woo the reluctant viewer.
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