What Is the Story About?
Disney Plus Hotstar’s latest original film ‘Tumse Na Ho Payega’ is an adaptation of entrepreneur Varun Agarwal’s ‘How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company’. The film centres on engineer Gaurav Shukla (Ishwak Singh), who decides to chuck the drudgery of a software job and launch his startup ‘Maa’s Magic’, with his best friend Sharad Malhotra, aka Mal (Gaurav Pandey), as co-founder. He is helped in his endeavor by his other best friend Vaghela (Gurpreet Saini), and crush Devika (Mahima Makwana). Will he succeed, or will naysayer Anu Aunty (Meghna Malik) be proved right?
Tumse Na Ho Payega is written by Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra and Varun Agarwal, directed by Abhishek Sinha, and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Earth Sky Movies and Star Studios.
Performances?
The performances in Tumse Na Ho Payega are about average. The usually competent Ishwak Singh is suffering from a weird Aamir Khan hangover in the film. For some reason, he blatantly apes Aamir Khan in the film, specifically in the way he delivers his lines, and sounds overall.
Gaurav Pandey is good as Mal. His dialogue delivery and body language is on point. Mahima Makwana and Gurmeet Saini are decent. Amla Akkineni is good casting as Gaurav’s mother, as is Meghna Malik. Karan Jotwani is caricaturish as Arjun. Farida Dadi is adorable as Pammi Aunty, as are the other actresses who play Maa’s Magic chefs.
Analysis
Tumse Na Ho Payega is a story we’ve seen a gazillion times before, both on the big and small screen. Spiritually, it is a clone of TVF’s ‘Pitchers’, down to the cocky chit-of-a-lad coding whiz. Thematically, it is similar to the umpteen movies and series on startups and the ‘triumph of the underdog’ trope, teeming in today’s content-scape. Nothing new here, by any standard.
The movie also reaffirms the message of following one’s dream, however hard and long the journey may be. It tells you to measure success by your own yardstick; and give two hoots about “Sharmaji ka beta”, embodied here by Arjun Kapoor, the too-good-to-be-true son of Anu Aunty.
That is about the only good part of Tumse Na Ho Payega. Most of the time, the movie passes by in a haze of same old, same old. From the title (a rather lazy rehash of the old TV show ‘Guddan, Tumse Na Ho Payega’), to the premise, to even the conflict and plot points, all of it gives an overwhelming done-to-death feel.
The characters and sequences are written in such a way that we feel nothing for them – not when the two best friends have a spat; neither for the forcefully-squeezed-in romantic track; and nothing when the startup faces its first big hurdle. All of it seems bereft of soul and substance. In fact, in the real world, Gaurav would have been labeled a big red flag for having ghosted Devika for weeks on end.
To sum it up, Tumse Na Ho Payega is an average coming-of-age drama, with nothing unique to differentiate it from other content of its ilk. Watch it once if you want; you’ll anyways forget about it before you the day is over.
Music and Other Departments?
Abhishek Arora and Ananya Purkayastha’s music is average, nothing memorable about it. Navagat Prakash’s cinematography is decent. The food shots are delectable. Chandrashekhar Prajapati’s editing is efficient.
Highlights?
None
Drawbacks?
Done-to-death storyline
Average performances
Tropey and cringey
Did I Enjoy It?
Not much
Will You Recommend It?
Not much
Tumse Na Ho Payega Movie Review by Binged Bureau