The first thing you should know about ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’ is that it has a story. Verily, the thing that movies ought to have before they get made, the very thing that Bollywood forgets, unbelievably, so often. The story is the basis of a solid, honest-to-goodness script, a lead couple that wins you over gradually but surely, and a bunch of actors who know exactly where they are at.
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Insecure young fellow Prem Prakash Tiwari(Ayushmann Khurrana) is a perfect candidate for the kind of ‘rapid-speaking’ English coaching classes, the ads which you find plastered on walls in small towns and ‘kasbas’. He’s called ‘Lapoo’: it could well have been ‘Lalloo’, because that’s what Prem comes across as, as he ricochets between his overbearing father(Sanjay Mishra), his annoying ‘shakha pradhaan’, and his pals.