Ajay Devgn and Rakul Preet Singh in De De Pyaar De.
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In De De Pyaar De, Ajay Devgn plays a man whose
age in real life – 50 – matches his screen age. This should hardly be
unusual, but it actually is in a film industry that has witnessed vastly
older male actors paired with vastly younger talent without irony,
passing themselves off as virgins, college students or young adults.
Devgn has played some of these characters, so kudos for attempting what
in Bollywood parlance is a “mature role”.
Akiv Ali’s
movie might have been truly radical if Devgn’s character wasn’t a
successful and youthful investment banker in London who boxes in his
spare time, has a ridiculously toned body (which is displayed at least
twice) and every quality associated with a young man in the throes of
young love. While Devgn’s Ashish is 50, let the record further state
that his intended is 26-year-old Aisha (Rakul Preet Singh).
Despite
the story playing out London, the pair is Indian enough to react to
their growing attraction with consternation. People might think that I
am in it for the money and you out of lust, Aisha says. Your idea of
tomorrow is very different from mine, Ashish wryly tells Aisha. This is
actually a generation gap, says Ronak (Jaaved Jaaferi), Ashish’s
therapist friend.
Yet, Ashish’s experience matches Aisha’s
exuberance and bridges the chasm up until the point that he decides to
introduce her to his family in India, which includes his vulgar father
(Alok Nath), estranged wife Manju (Tabu), and embittered daughter Ishita
(Inayat). Ishita is only a year younger than Aisha, and Manju seems to
be in no mood to forgive Ashish for past transgressions. The
May-December romcom quickly descends into a love triangle starring
Manju’s raised eyebrows, Ashish’s stupefied expressions and Aisha’s
ineffectual flapping.
De De Pyaar De (2019).De De Pyaar De is based on a story by Luv Ranjan, who has examined the contours and creases of modern love in his Pyaar Ka Punchnama films and his biggest hit, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (2018). Ranjan has a deserved reputation for misogyny, and he attempts to correct the perception in De De Pyaar De
by partially liberating his female leads from being mean and conniving,
as his female characters often are. Aisha is T-shirt-and-shorts-wearing
girl (but adequately smart), while Manju is world-weary and wise.
Ashish isn’t a put-one Indian male either, although the screenplay, by
Luv Ranjan and Tarun Jain, always finds ways to bring him absolution.As
the 134-minute movie wears on, it turns out that the difference in
years between Ashish and Aisha is ultimately a red herring. The movie
barely works as an age-gap saga but is more effective as a comedy about
moving on and finding new soulmates. Ranjan and Jain heavily pad up
material that is just about enough for an extended sitcom episode with
songs (too many and all of them distractions), uneven comedy and
needless melodrama. Ironically for a film directed by an editor, the
pacing is sluggish.
Most
of the acting is strictly functional, but Tabu and Degvn have some nice
scenes together, and their grown-up ways are a welcome relief from
Rakul Preet Singh’s forever-young mugging. Jimmy Sheirgill has a sweet
cameo as Manju’s admirer, proving once again his talent for broad
comedy. De De Pyaar De’s biggest achievement is thatit
might actually compel filmmakers to ask whether their leads are
appropriately matched wrinkle for wrinkle rather than forcing
chronological acrobatics on viewers. The next time you see Ajay Devgn
making eyes as a woman far younger than him, you have every right to be
sceptical.
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