“Nadaaniyan” is a film starring Ibrahim Ali Khan and Khushi Kapoor. It is written by Riva Razdan Kapoor and directed by Shauna Gautam.
What can we expect from a teenage romantic comedy? Romance, some jokes, personal growth, development… “Nadaaniyan” is a romantic comedy from Bollywood that has all of this and, with a kind and sentimental tone, manages to entertain and please its target audience. Yes, it’s the kind of movie that film critics will tear apart and they won’t be entirely wrong, but it’s also the kind of movie that doesn’t harm anyone and that, in all its simplicity and lack of ambition, manages to entertain and satisfy its audience.
Without aspiring to absolutely anything, it can’t disappoint anyone. “Nadaaniyan” doesn’t aspire to anything, but it manages to entertain by giving us exactly the movie we expected.
Plot
The story revolves around Pia Jaisingh (played by Khushi Kapoor), a privileged member of Delhi’s high society who hires Arjun Mehta (Ibrahim Ali Khan), a middle-class student, to pose as her boyfriend and thus maintain her social status. Their pretense takes an unexpected turn when genuine feelings emerge between them.
About the Movie
We’ve seen a thousand romantic comedies, each one more foolish than the last. “Nadaaniyan” doesn’t stand out in anything: it doesn’t have the best jokes, its story isn’t the most epic, and it’s not particularly innovative. “Nadaaniyan” is content to be a run-of-the-mill movie and offer us exactly what we came to see and what the genre demands.
The movie knows how to make fun of itself: the guy with defined abs, photos on mobile phones, friends… everything is so stereotyped that it almost seems like a movie that doesn’t take itself seriously, and it does so at no point.
“Nadaaniyan” has the virtue of knowing what is expected of it and sticking to it without inventing anything. Some may find it boring, but other viewers will find in this lack of ambition precisely what they’re looking for: a way to relax while watching, once again, another movie about teenagers in love in a school.
This time it’s in Delhi and not in California, but the arguments remain exactly the same.
Enjoy it.
Where to Watch “Nadaaniyan”
The Cast
Suniel Shetty
Dia Mirza
Mahima Chaudhry
Agastya Shah
Apoorva Makhija
Aaliyah Qureishi
