Nothing is scarier than falling in love and having the ghost of your in love and having the ghosts of your memories together haunt you. but kanan( suraj sharma) is experiencing a haunting of a more specific kind. he isn’t othered y memories of a former lover, but by an actual ghost-in-love from another era.
kanan marries a tree to ward off back luck before his wedding, and the tree urns out to be the resting place of shashi(anushka sharma), who lived and loved there almost a hundred year ago. as a reslt of this marriage, shashi is bound to kanan, who must figure out a way to take care of the unfinished business that’s causing her to linger around.
conceptually, phillauri is a winner and that much was evident from the trailer . the idea is superbly original, culturally on point and has great potential . the problem is, you only get what you see in the trailer, nothing more and thankfully nothing less . the hilarious, exciting one- line plot develops into a two - and -a-half hour film that is full of romantic-movie tropes .
the invisibility of the ghost can only get so many laughs; the narratives shifts between shashi’s past and kanan’s present seem abrupt; the soulful songs are easy on the ears but strain your eyes by adding to runtime, and most importantly, shashi’s story(the emotional core of the film) is largely formulaic.
the actors sweep in and carry the film, though. with his body language and voice modulation, suraj sharma nails the confused aimless millennial and lightens the mood. mehreen pirzada’s helpless and hopelessly-in-love anu is endearing. diljit dosnjh brings his trademark goodness to a rather bland role. and as the translucent ghost, anushka dlivers a solid performance with a weired mix of sadness and humor .
it seems as though phillauri could have gone in a lot of directions, but it took the road usually travelled so this the review of phillauri . If you like my review please like and comment below and must share with your firends