Like it is with all films that revolve around a college campus, we should just surrender to a pool of cliches with this one too.
Rhea (Shraddha Kapoor) is your quintessential cutie, who's on the verge of turning 18, and has extravagant plans for the D-day. She's dating college hottie Luv (Taaha Shah). He's an archetype of a college heartthrob, equipped with an awkward accent and a couple of chamchas as he belongs to a Billionaire Boys Club.
Just before Rhea's D-day, she spots Luv -- who she's already dreamed of marrying -- canoodling with a college rival at a city hotspot. Instead of retiring in a cocoon, she makes it her business to have an adventurously memorable 18 by making life hellish for the Casanova.
Now the execution of the desperate quest is what forms the body and the core crux of the film. It essentially is a chick-flick and makes no pretence in being so (No man can enjoy a Jaguar being mercilessly crushed by a trio of lasses).
Where the film delights is in the even manner the characters are sketched. They are the archetypal collegians, no doubt. They seem to represent an institution too idealistic -- like the stud with enviable cars and girls to match, the professor who's a fantasy to many students, the horny fatso, the instantly likeable chubby classmate who's more than occasionally witty, the health conscious, model demeanour-ed sidekick. It is but assumed that the presence of these many of them in a youthful set-up is inevitable.
But they aren't necessarily annoying, on the contrary, a [...]
Rhea (Shraddha Kapoor) is your quintessential cutie, who's on the verge of turning 18, and has extravagant plans for the D-day. She's dating college hottie Luv (Taaha Shah). He's an archetype of a college heartthrob, equipped with an awkward accent and a couple of chamchas as he belongs to a Billionaire Boys Club.
Just before Rhea's D-day, she spots Luv -- who she's already dreamed of marrying -- canoodling with a college rival at a city hotspot. Instead of retiring in a cocoon, she makes it her business to have an adventurously memorable 18 by making life hellish for the Casanova.
Now the execution of the desperate quest is what forms the body and the core crux of the film. It essentially is a chick-flick and makes no pretence in being so (No man can enjoy a Jaguar being mercilessly crushed by a trio of lasses).
Where the film delights is in the even manner the characters are sketched. They are the archetypal collegians, no doubt. They seem to represent an institution too idealistic -- like the stud with enviable cars and girls to match, the professor who's a fantasy to many students, the horny fatso, the instantly likeable chubby classmate who's more than occasionally witty, the health conscious, model demeanour-ed sidekick. It is but assumed that the presence of these many of them in a youthful set-up is inevitable.
But they aren't necessarily annoying, on the contrary, a [...]