Show, don’t tell.” It means that a storyteller is expected to paint a picture as opposed to describing things mechanically. Raabta spends a lot of time telling you things, and not nearly enough in making them seem believable.So we’re told that Shiv ( Singh Rajput) is a ladykiller. But the next girl he lays eyes on, Saira ( Sanon) , will kill his long streak. She talks to herself in the mirror and tells us, by its way, that she’s been experiencing weird tribal nightmares. As they get infatuatedand verbalize to each other that it’s all happening too soon, Saira starts feeling the same connection with Zakir ( Sarbh) - another blast-from-way-past. We’re then told that in a previous lifetime, Zakir and Saira were in love, until a savage warrior seduced her away.