MFK: pokes well !!

Rating: 2.5/5

Y Films’ Mujhse Fraaanship Karoge starring 4 new comers is a youthful joyride whose premise revolves around 21^st century’s one of the greatest inventions i.e. Zuckerberg’s spectacular social networking site, “Facebook”.   

Vishal (played by Saqib Saleem) is having crush on gorgeous Malavika Kelkar (played by Tara D’souza) and another lead Preity (played by Saba Azaad) loses her heart to Rahul, the Rockstar (played by Nishant Dahiya). Each one of them in disguise talks with another on Facebook and with the rally rounds of chat, falls in love with the person, which they never thought of but it’s all good, we know it. There’s nothing more than that. 

Story line is simple and straightforward and good thing is, it’s devoid of customary bollywood melodrama. Raghu Dixit’s music is ebullient and gives the joyous feeling which a typical bollywood rom-com should. All the actors have performed with terrific enthusiasm and they are the ones who really pull this film up with their charisma, lingo & just right attitude. No one seemed like a new-comer. Hacky (played by prabal panjabi) delivers hilarious gags and never misses the beat. Platoon of professors shown in every college drama is out of sight this time and I am glad for it.

In terms of drawbacks, we have aged couples here who fail to induce heartwarming emotions. Lecture given by protagonist in the climax which attempts to illuminate the shortcomings of the excess usage of Facebook was scalded; it could have been much more engrossing.

This is the genre which Imran Khan has donated his half of his life to, but failed to gratify audience. This is the genre which each of us have tagged as “chewed” one but each one of us secretly loves it and the one who denies that fact loves it the most. We just can’t ignore it. After Band Baaja Baaraat, this is the film which I really enjoyed in the rom-com genre. Earnest effort of whole team is worth appreciating. There is surely something missing but debutante Nupur Asthana’s Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge turns out to be an entirely watchable film.