'Ishq Vishk Rebound' movie review: Love-shove warmly reloaded

Ishq Vishk ReboundUA Romance comedyDir Nipun DharmadhikariCast Rohit Saraf Pashmina RoshanRating 35So there is the college girl Pashmina Roshan in this film whorsquos kissed her exrsquos BFF Rohit Saraf who in turn has also been her bestie forever Both make the moment appear accidentalmdashas if two people can ever kiss without it being mutual after allWhether the retreating peck on the lip was the guy or the girl making the first movemdashthatrsquos the conflict at the heart of this youngadult romanceAnd the reason I enjoyed this movie For what is teenage if not full of such trivial issues we consider to be monumental crises Something that blows up into even more serioussounding lsquoFirst World problemsrsquo as we get olderThis picture Ishq Vishk Rebound reflects this really well and rather warmly Whatrsquos Rebound in the title I guess a way to instantly get over someone is to get under somebody else Thatrsquos a reboundmdashperhaps crudely putUnlike this film thatrsquos so totally PG13 with everyone on first base that I wonder if it adequately captures the lives and loves of the hormonal young at some Spencer College in Dehradun 2024That Spencer College if Irsquom not mistaken was actually Bombayrsquos Sophia Polytechnic campus in the OG Ishq Vishk 2003 that this film is an offshoot ofmdashproduced by TIPS essentially a music labelHow does this Ishq Vishk compare to the earlier one I have an easy answer for you Get on YouTube or Spotify press on the two versions of the same songmdashChot dil pe lagimdashmy favourite from both the soundtracksThe old one has Alisha Chinai Kumar Sanu going ldquoAey hey heyhellip La la lahelliprdquo along with other rsquo90s Anu Malik lsquoharkatsrsquo The new number more modernmellow subtle with Asees Kaur and others is almost lofi flip as they say The analogy explains the two moviesEither way itrsquos been over 20 years between each Which in current times equals more than a couple of generations Rebound is more realistically reloaded Hardly the stilted Student of the Year Which sadly is my only reference point for this genre in the popular theatrical spaceBarring a brigadier in this picture thoughmdashbrainlessly blowing his head offmdasheven worse than the oldworld baap in Bollywood The boys and girls seem relatable As do their issues with each other or life in generalI usually check out desi youngadult stuffmdashClass 2023 Kho Gaye Hum Kahan 2023 etcmdashfor socioanthropological reasons Mainly to get an lsquoinrsquo into logos and lingos of GenZThis one simultaneously references Chris Martin and Ramsay Bros as the kids go camping for a lsquoPuranmashi ki raat ki partyrsquo ie ldquoHindu Halloweenrdquo when they arenrsquot eating cream rolls I donrsquot know is that a Dehradun thingWhich also tells me this isnrsquot a randomly wannabe flick that would turn corny eventually Itrsquos not a particularly polished pic either In terms of technique or visualsmdashor even the staging of the big scenesmomentsMaking up for all of it within a tight 109 minutes with some sensible even sensitive writing Looking at multiple credits it appears the script has gone through several drafts surely involving the thoroughly sincere director Nipun Dharmadhikari from Marathi theatrecinemaWhat else has changed over the past two decades since the first Ishq Vishk The idea of famestardom foremost Consider that Shahid Kapoor 22 made his Bollywood debut with Ishq VishkI met him at my office reception on the Monday after that filmrsquos release and people around were wondering aloud if they had seen him somewhere He became a star later that same weekIrsquom afraid I hadnrsquot heard of this filmrsquos two leads before watching their proper big screen Bollywood outing Only to look them up on Instagram and find Rohit Saraf Mismatched Hichki Ludo has 13 million followers while Pashmina Roshan Hrithikrsquos cousin composer Roshanrsquos daughter lords over 217K followers alreadyBoth are easy on the eyemdashchecking off all the departments for desi romcom dance dress soft dialogues sufficient screen presencemdashseemingly enjoying themselves before the camera Saraf is potential starmaterialAlso manifesting this As I did with that curlyhaired boylead Abhay Verma in the recent sleeper hit Munjya God knows Hindi commercial cinema overloaded with 40 and 50plus heroes could do with a genuinely new lineup of proper young stars in the makebelieve skyIdeally in the same age bracket as its traditionally core audience Honestly Irsquom not even the TG target group for this teenaged romance That I enjoyed it probably means the movie is even better than I thought it was for meHerersquos one thing though that hasnrsquot changed over time Whatrsquos the larger conflict in this movie Whether best friends can become lovers after all Isnrsquot that just a new way of posing the good olrsquo Bollywood questionmdashcan a ladkaboy lakdigirl ever be dostfriends Of courseYUCK WHATEVER GOOD SUPER AWESOME

'Ishq Vishk Rebound' movie review: Love-shove warmly reloaded

Ishq Vishk Rebound
U/A: Romance, comedy
Dir: Nipun Dharmadhikari
Cast: Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan
Rating: 3/5

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'Ishq Vishk Rebound' movie review: Love-shove warmly reloaded

Ishq Vishk ReboundU/A: Romance, comedyDir: Nipun DharmadhikariCast: Rohit Saraf, Pashmina RoshanRating: 3/5

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Ishq Vishk Rebound
U/A: Romance, comedy
Dir: Nipun Dharmadhikari
Cast: Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan
Rating: 3/5