David Dhawan’s comedies, the best of them, have been cheerfully low-IQ enterprises, constructed around predictable plot lines involving lookalike protagonists, mistaken identities, cheating husbands, and triangular love stories. When Dhawan was at the top of his game, one or any of these standard ideas would have been enough for him to bang out a film filled with non-stop laughs. But main tera hero, starring the filmmaker’s son Varun, is a series of forced contrivances.
The humor feels labored and manufactured, never arising spontaneously from the situations. It’s a shame because you’d think Dhawan Sr would know exactly how to make these tropes work. We have Seenu Prasad ( Varun) , the resident enfant terrible who falls for campus cutie Sunaina. But their romance hits a speed bump when Ayesha ( Nargis Fakhri) , the daughter of a don, takes a shine to our hero.