
Confusion gets confounded, a case of mistaken identities follows but eventually all ends predictably well.īKB is reminiscent of the middle class, comedy of errors that were built on trifles - Sai Paranjape's And the real Vidrohi (Rajkummar Rao) is a meek sari salesman who can’t quite string two sentences together.
But the author Vidrohi is actually a printing press owner - Chirag Dubey (Ayushmann Khurrana) - who is battling his own love demons.
She promptly falls for the idea of Vidrohi (which literally translates to rebel) without having met him.
She finds empathy in author Pritam Vidrohi who has created a character quite like her in his novelīareilly Ki Barfi. No such questions would be asked if she were a boy, says Bitti. Because marriage is still the ultimate goal - both for her and her parents - and liberal young men are hard to come by. A case of mistaken identities later, a love triangle builds upĭespite two seemingly progressive, non-interfering parents Bitti feels stifled.
Storyline: Bareilly girl Bitti goes in search of the author of the novel,īareilly Ki Barfi whose lead character she identifies with. Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Kriti Sanon, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Seema Pahwa. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani or Seema Pahwa inĭum Laga Ke Haisha or the Pahwa-Tripathi combine now inīareilly Ki Barfi - the changing face of parenthood in Hindi cinema is worth a closer, more critical look, but that’s for another article. Is this parent-daughter bonding for real or some sort of wish fulfilment, deliberate tokenism or a genuinely nuanced portrayal? We may keep arguing endlessly on it, we may even carp about the constant stress on having brought up the girl up “like a boy” nonetheless it does feel refreshing and Then there is the mother Susheela (Seema Pahwa), who might call her aĬhudail (witch) for roaming around recklessly in the night but doesn’t appear to impose any curbs on her. He even bums cigarettes from her when he exhausts his own stock. He smells alcohol on her breath but shrugs it off. In the thick of night, the father Narottam Mishra (Pankaj Tripathi) opens the door for his daughter Bitti (Kriti Sanon), who has returned home after a jaunt with a male friend.