Loveyapa Movie Star Cast/ Actors: Khushi Kapoor as Baani Sharma, Junaid Khan as Gaurav Sachdeva, Ashutosh Rana as Atul Kumar Sharma, Grusha Kapoor as Lalit Sachdeva, Kiku Sharda as Anupam, Tanvika Parlikar as Kiran Sachedva, Devishi Madaan as Pinti Sharma, Aaditya Kulshreshth as Lamba, Nikhil Mehta as Shanky, Jason Tham as Bobby, Yunus Khan as Jaggi & more
Loveyapa Movie Director: Advait Chandan
Loveyapa Movie Release Date: February 07, 2025
Loveyapa Movie Available On: Theatrical Release and (likely to be released on OTT Plateform Disney+ Hotstar)
Loveyapa Movie Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi
Loveyapa Movie Runtime: 138 Minutes
Loveyapa Movie Critic Review:
It takes off on a merry note. There’s a request made to the audience (in Aamir Khan’s voice) about mobile phones: do not exchange yours with anybody else.
It sets the tone for freshness. Spanking new content, young first-timers in the lead, parental scoldings you haven’t heard before and sometimes, chaotic humour.
These are the four elements that make writer-director Advait Chandan’s conventionally labelled ‘romantic comedy’ unconventional.
It’s new age all through. Buying a new phone, payment by phone. Constant chats. They know each other’s friends, families and house layout even before stepping into each other’s domains.
“Baani boo, I can’t hear you.” “Gucci, awaaz nahi aa rahi hai.”
Lovebirds Baani Sharma (Khushi Kapoor) and Gaurav Sachdeva (Junaid Khan) can’t hear each other clearly, he climbing the water tank to get a connection, she raising her voice at home.
It’s a moment of both humour and a turning point when her sitar-playing father (Ashutosh Rana) tells her, “But I can hear you Baani Boo.”
And the cat’s out of the bag.
Now Gaurav alias Gucci must meet her sitar-playing dad, lawyer Atul Kumar Sharma with a string of degrees following his name. “Papa is a lie detector,” Baani briefs Gucci before the meeting. It’s a quick, witty brief. Papa spouts shudh Sanskritised Hindi, he refers to bhavishya ka prashna.
Gucci attempts to impress him and ends up saying sparsh for spasht.
Like the trailer revealed, dad’s only condition: exchange your phones for a day and then let’s see how the relationship goes. Chaotic humour ensues.
Overlook some disquieting ‘humour’: bird droppings mixed with noodles. A fat man farting in bed. Same fat man in superhero costume jumping off. Fat man eating a human finger. Hero eating stale gajjar halwa.
Written by Sneha Desai with Sidhant Mago and Pradeep Ranganathan, gaze at six main characters and the situations they’re plonked in.
With one parent each for Baani and Gucci, he has a loud mom (Grusha Kapoor) who twists his arm, bonks him on the head but loves him dearly, and advises him clearly.
Gucci also has pretty sis Kiran (Tanvika Parlikar) who has just said ‘yes’ to an arranged marriage proposal from dentist Anupam (Kiku Sharda). Why would she accept this unappealing, overweight guy as her husband? From a mausi to Gucci, everybody asks her. She looks at his nature, his decency. He even walks away when she takes a call from her friend, insisting that she must get her privacy. Advait makes it funny putting on screen the distance (2.7 metres) maintained when she takes the call.
Baani and her sis have a cute dog that has only one part to play: look from one character to the other with a ‘don’t tell me, how come?’ expression.
Gucci is appalled. He who was possessive about a male gazing at Baani’s waist, gawks with disbelief at Baani’s phone. The number of chats with guys that she’s never told him about, sets the cat among the pigeons. Baani who’d put her hand between them every time he tried to kiss her, has been playing the field?
Desperate failed attempts to get his hacker friend wipe out all data from his phone, it’s Baani’s turn to look at the series of Gucci’s ‘ex’ girlfriends she knows nothing about and worse, the group that’s been sending her and her sis dirty messages.
In the raised tempers and misunderstandings that follow, Advait does get carried away, allowing the pace to slump before the first half is over and for a while after. It’s almost like Baani and Gucci never had a life apart from dating and messing forever with the opposite sex. There is a lot that’s over the top and exaggerated, including Gucci insolently putting his feet up before her father when he thinks he’s got the upper hand. Badtameezi is not funny.
Watching Gucci and Baani go through upheavals over what their phones reveal about them, Kiran too begins her rounds of distrust when rotund Anupam clings to his phone possessively.
When misunderstandings pile up between Baani-Gucci and Kiran-Anupam, the lawyer-dad’s sitar hits a crescendo. Most appropriate BG score for those moments.
It is a mixture of humour that works and some that don’t land. It’s fun when mom off- handedly tells Gucci, “Every house has a drawer filled with useless stuff.”
It’s left to Gucci’s mom to throw his commitment bracelet and watch him scramble to retrieve it. “It’s only when you lose something that you realise how precious it is,” she scolds him.
“It’s all about bharosa,” explains the lawyer-dad as Baani and Gucci fight their suspicions and come together.
Advait scatters a few other telling messages too, including deep fake videos and body shaming.
Khushi Kapoor and Junaid Khan bring with them the freshness required of youthful, contemporary content. However, both will need more grooming in their craft before they can handle downright emotional showdowns with ease, matching facial expression with voice modulation.
After ages, the audience comes out humming a tune as the title song ‘Loveyapa’ (composed by White Noise) lingers, long after the rolling credits at the end.
Loveyapa Movie – Watch Or Not?: It’s definitely worth a visit to the theatre but patience is recommended as it is an overlong love affair with new technology.
Loveyapa Movie Review Score Rating: 3 out of 5 (i.e. 3/5)
Loveyapa Movie Official Trailer:
Loveyapa Official Trailer (Credits: ZEE CAFE)
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