It is commendable how Vikrant plays a Muslim boy but doesn’t overdo it, the way the characters have been stereotyped for years. Sanya has the tough part to break the Pagglait image and get into Love Hostel because the looks are somewhat similar, but she does that quite well. As said both have a kid in them, and you see it does with each passing minute as they keep running from one point to the other. The actors know their characters and embody them nicely. Sanya Malhotra and Vikrant Massey have a great chemistry.
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Love Hostel Movie Review: Star Performance The climax (I won’t spoil) feels a bit rushed and comes randomly, and I am not talking about the end, but the beginning of the end. It gets repetitive after a point and does not create any impact. In his runtime of approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, the man is only killing people for 1 hour 25 minutes. What is not a good practice is making Bobby Deol kill anyone and everyone on the ground he walks. It in a way is respecting the audience and not infantilising them, which is a good practice. The trauma, bad practices and evils are never spoon fed to you, but you are supposed to grasp and understand the message. For that matter, the mercenary feels he is incharge of ‘cleaning’ the society and by that he means not letting girls of his clan marry guys from another. For Ahmed, his father is staged as a terrorist, he is dragged into illegal business, demeaned because he is Muslim. The corrupt cops, Jyoti’s young brother who feels entitled to save their ‘izzat’ and hits her leaving a wound, or her father who has no agency over the decisions about his daughters’ lives. It is through their love story we realise how big a crime it is to choose a partner in some places. It rather focuses on the ‘still kids at heart’ lovers trying to stay alive together. The best part about the narrative is that it never takes the preachy route of telling you the story of these evils in our society like it’s educating you. Honour killing goes handy, and considering the landscape the story is set in does half the work. The commentary is about the religious divide right in the beginning. A Muslim boy who runs a meat shop is wanting to marry a Hindu girl from a so called ‘prestigious’ clan. Writers Mehak Jamal, Shanker Raman, and Yogi Singha set their story in Haryana. On the face of it, the movie looks quite obvious love story with a mercenary on a hunt for two lovers. She sends a mercenary to kill the two and clear the ‘daag’ from their family name. But how will the society not poke their long nose in their business? Enters the family of Jyoti, which includes a matriarch Dadi, who is also an esteemed politician. Love Hostel as the title does not suggest, is about two star-crossed lovers coming from different walks of life (religion to be specific) and trying to live together by going against the societal norms. The opening shot is Bobby Deol’s Dagar hanging an eloped couple to death. The Sanya and Vikrant starrer is a good example.
The evolution of the OTT space has equipped the makers to make films without adding popular romantic gimmicks, and tell raw stories. The title of the movie looks like a rom-com unfolding in the Heartland but dare you to think like that, it is dark without a single moment of optimism.
If you haven’t seen any promotional material and your only motivation is the name ‘Love Hostel’, let me educate and break your bubble. Vikrant Massey & Sanya Malhotra(Photo Credit: Still From Love Hostel) Love Hostel Movie Review: Script Analysis They hire a mercenary (Bobby) to kill the two and unfolds the drama.
But Jyoti’s influential family doesn’t approve of it. Two star-crossed lovers, Ahmed (Vikrant) and Jyoti (Sanya) elope and get married.