Do Lafzon Ki Kahani Movie Review: Clich?d And Corny

Usually, it is considered that remakes are easier to make than original films as the raw material is already available and one just has to make it palatable to the target audience with minimum efforts.

However, the aforesaid theory has often been proved wrong for many filmmakers and Do Lafzon Ki Kahani, which is the remake of a Korean film titled Always, firmly falls in this category.

Starring Randeep Hooda and Kajal Aggarwal, the film revolves around Suraj (Hooda), a former mixed martial artist with a dark past, who is now doing odd 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. However, 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…

Hooda is growing as an actor with every film and it is a sheer delight to watch the Haryanvi hunk on the screen, though his floppy hairstyle did make us cringe. Hooda can get into the intense lover mode as and when he wants, but he takes the brooding hero thing a bit too far, though women would find it easy to forgive him after they watch him baring his muscular torso in the action scenes. Kajal's character is way too chirpy and her idiotic logic regarding certain things is sure to irritate you (In one scene, she scolds Suraj for beating up her boss, who was about to rape her, on the grounds that a girl has to put up with such things in order to survive in this big, bad world! Like, really??) Wonder what the writers were smoking up when they came up with such lines.

Mamik Singh, who had made his debut as an actor in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, makes a comeback with this film as Hooda's coach, but the actor sorely lacks the boyish charm that had made women go weak in the knees in 'JJWS'.

As for the film itself, the plot is very clichéd and corny, not to mention sluggish. The storyline is so predictable that you already start guessing what will happen four scenes later. If that was not all, the chemistry between Hooda and Kajal is virtually non-existent, which is the worst possible thing to happen to a love story.

Though the film could have been a decent flick, the makers have ruined it by inserting every possible Bollywood cliché- a brooding hero with a dark past, a chirpy heroine who gets 'gajar ka halwa' for her favourite uncle, predictable coincidences and a fight scene wherein the hero is battered till his heroine is insulted, after which, he slaughters his opponent (Believe me, Mr. Tijori, we have been seeing such things in films since the 80s).

Also, the fact that the film seems to drag on and on, kills whatever interest or enthusiasm you had managed to muster by the second half.

In conclusion, Do Lafzon Ki Kahani is not really worth it, irrespective of whether you are a Hooda fan or not.