Befikre ticks practically every single box which constitutes the Yashraj canon. You can’t do better than Paris, gorgeous location-wise. Ranveer Singh oozes that certain irrepressible X factor, and he is paired with Vaani Kapoor who added zing to the previous Yashraj ‘prem kahani’ she featured in.
It’s all there, and yet, Befikre never quite rises above its shiny surface, and the absence of a story. In its best moments, it has sparkle, but those few and far between; in the rest, it stays bland and familiar.
First off, props to Aditya Chopra for fashioning a true-blue romcom( the first genuine Bollywood romantic comedy, Hum Tum also came from the Yashraj stable), not a drama which begins with ‘do dil ka pyaar’ and sinks into `dhai kilo ka parivaar’. Dharam Gulati(Ranveer Singh) and Shyra Gill(Vaani Kapoor) collide sweetly in the obligatory meet-cute, and because they are in Paris, they instantly do as Parisians do: lock lips, long and hard.