Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Star Cast/Actors: Shahid Kapoor as Aryan, Kriti Sanon as SIFRA (Super Intelligent Female Robot Automation), Dharmendra as Dada Ji, Dimple Kapadia as Urmila, Rakesh Bedi as Papa, Anubha Fatehpuria as Sharmila, Rajesh Kumar as Mama, Ashish Verma as Monty, Grusha Kapoor as Bua.
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Release Date: February 9, 2024
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Available On: Theatrical Release and (likely to be released on Amazon Prime Video)
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Runtime: 2h 23m
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Critic Review:
What fun when a humanoid robot walks into a family as the new daughter-in-law.
But before that, ace robotics programmer and eligible bachelor Aryan Agnihotri (Shahid Kapoor) has nightmares. Of his parents conning him into marriage. Mom Sharmila (Anubha Fatehpuria) does the temple rounds for a bahu. Dad (Rakesh Bedi), Dada (Dharmendra) and sundry others sit around flailing their arms in a financially comfortable joint family.
Aunt Urmila (Dimple Kapadia) calls Aryan over to the US – the aunt who rasps instead of talking, runs a state-of-the-art robotics company. More excited over machines than men, maasi’s team is programming the perfect robot who’ll step in to take over humanly duties.
The beautiful Sifra (Kriti Sanon) welcomes Aryan. SIFRA – Super Intelligent Female Robot Automaton. “A south Indian surname?” wonders one of the Agnihotris when she’s later introduced to the family in India.
Sifra can make Aryan the perfect black coffee, rustle up a meal, clean up, drive any vehicle, speak any language, make bank transactions, even make love. Once Aryan gets over the shock of knowing he’s had sex with maasi’s robotic creation, he takes her back to India. Maasi thinks it’s to put Sifra to the ultimate test among normal humans. Aryan has other plans.
There are a few touches of amusement when Sifra baffles the Agnihotris. But the implausible love story written and directed by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah baffles more than bemuses. At one stage, Sifra’s shown with a drawer in her stomach where she stores what she pretends to eat. You do wonder what’s below the drawer that Aryan could unsuspectingly make love to her.
The loosely written screenplay has pit stops for an engagement, kissing scenes between Aryan and Sifra that obviously don’t make you go mushy, inane songs and dances. The title song itself sounds like a mash of old tunes and numbers like Laal peeli akhiyan don’t even have a playback voice that suits Shahid. Flabby scenes like Dadaji falling ill and being driven to a vet instead of a human hospital add neither humour nor give a new dimension to the story.
A malfunctioning robot in their midst doesn’t draw outrage from family members while the last scene back in America where Urmila maasi has her humanoids walk the ramp ends with another touch of baffling implausibility.
Sci-fi is fine and the one point we’d give to the makers is that they’ve at least attempted something new. But to carry off the bizarre in conventional family situations, the writing has to be fresher and more imaginative and raise a lot more laughs. You can’t watch an entire film wondering, how’s this even possible?
Dimple with her rasp and the presence of Dharmendra purely for nostalgia don’t really raise any awwwws while the youthful efficiency of Shahid and Kriti doesn’t elevate the creaky script.
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya- Watch It Or Not?: Wait for it to move to OTT.
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Score Rating: 1.5 out of 5
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