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Ek Din movie review: Just like Junaid Khan and Sai Pallavi, film has no zing

The Indian Express·Shubhra Gupta·about 1 month ago
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Ek Din movie review: If good intentions were to be the bedrock of all good love-stories, Ek Din would have scaled the peak. Movie romances are designed to make us moon and sigh, because they give us a pair of lovers who will wither and die if they do not end up together. Just on that single metric, Ek Din, a remake of Thai film One Day, struggles to score, because neither Dino (Junaid Khan) nor Meera (Sai Pallavi) look as if they will perish if they part: it’s more like they will find a prosaic proverb for it, and go their separate ways. Dinesh Kumar Srivastava aka Dino (Junaid Khan) has a solo superpower. He is the self-confessed ultimate invisible man, beavering away at the IT department at a faceless Noida corporation. It’s the kind of company where the boss (Kunal Kapoor, in an extended cameo) is busy two-timing his wife, while getting it on with a pretty co-worker, carrying on the dalliance when he carts his excited staff to an offsite in picture-perfect Japan. Japan?…

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