A slow-moving, cliché-ridden melodrama in which misfortune after spirit-crushing misfortune is heaped upon the two protagonists, Do Lafzon Ki Kahani is not quite the breeze that the title might recommend.
Starring Randeep Hooda and Kajal Aggarwal, the movie revolves around Suraj (Hooda), a former mixed martial artist with a dark past, who is now doing weird jobs to earn enough money to settle an old debt. Suraj meets the visually impaired but chirpy Jenny (Kajal) and falls in love with her over a period of time. But, when Suraj makes a terrible discovery that links the two of them, he vows to do whatever he can to come up with enough money to pay for a surgery, which will bring Jenny's eyesight back.
Does Suraj manage to do this? Does the terrible secret that Suraj has discovered about them, tears them apart? Wait and watch…
Randeep Hooda is rising as an actor with every movie and it is a sheer enjoyment to watch the Haryanvi hunk on the screen. Now, Hooda can get into the intense lover mode as and when he wants, but he takes the brooding hero thing a bit too far. Kajal's character is way too bubbly and her unwise logic regarding certain things is sure to irritate you.
Mamik Singh, who had made his debut as an actor in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, makes a comeback with this movie as Hooda's coach, but the actor really lacks the boyish charm that had made women go weak in the knees during Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.
As for the movie itself, the plot is very stereotypical and trite, not to mention lethargic. The storyline is so foreseeable that you already start guessing what will happen four scenes later. If that was not all, the chemistry between Hooda and Kajal is practically non-existent, which is the worst possible thing to happen to a love story.
Though the movie could have been a decent film, the makers have ruined it by inserting every possible Bollywood formula- a brooding hero with a dark past, a chirpy heroine who gets 'gajar ka halwa' for her favorite uncle, foreseeable coincidences and a fight scene wherein the hero is battered till his heroine is insulted, after which, he slaughters his opponent.
Director Deepak Tijori gives his Do Lafzon Ki Kahani the tagline 'Love never hurts... It heals', and it's more than suitable. If it reminds you of a run-of-the-mill love story of the 90s, perfect. That is exactly what this movie is. Do Lafzon Ki Kahani makes use of every believable and unbelievable cliche in the history of bad love stories? From the brooding hero's mysterious past to the unnecessarily chirpy and talkative heroine, from the goons to loss of love: you name it, you get it.
Mohana Krishna does a decent job with the camera. The beautiful locales of Kuala Lumpur are pleasing to the eyes. The slickly choreographed MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) sequences deserve much praise.
Among the many songs in the movie, Jeena Marna is a hummable track. The other songs are hardly worth a mention.
Also, the fact that the movie seems to drag on and on, kills whatever interest or eagerness you had managed to muster by the second half.
In general, Do Lafzon Ki Kahani is worthy to watch once for Randeep Hooda’s act and the MMA sequences.
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