Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba

Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba Movie Review Rating:

Star Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, Sunny Kaushal, Jimmy Shergill

Director: Jayprad Desai

What’s Good:  The first half builds up the intrigue so well that you are very excited to know how they are gonna resolve this.

What’s Bad: The second half falls short of efforts made to resolve this entire mess!

Loo Break: Whenever you need – your screen, your rules!

Watch or Not?: Yes

Language: Hindi

Available On: Netflix

Runtime: 130 Minutes

User Rating:

“Intezaar se dar nahi lagta, wo to akele kar sakte hain. Dar to mulakat se lagta hai.” Taapsee Pannu’s Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba starts on this note. With a new lover in Rani Kashyap’s life, but she is still smitten by the love of her life, Rishu Saxena, who chopped off his hand and burnt his own dead cousin (who died by accident and was killed by Rani in part 1.)

Rani is a fan of the biggest suspense-crime novelist Dinesh Pandit and for Rani’s love even Rishu starts reading the same novels. They take inspirations from these books and plan their lives. Right from meeting each other to expressing love and betrayal to each other. Everything is quote un-quote Dinesh Pandit.

But Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba takes a very elevated turn when Sunny Kaushal enters Rani and Rishu’s world. A love triangle that none expected to be this good, but obviously, one needs to be very clever while building mazes because even the one who builds it needs to get out of it. So did the film manage to de-tangle this tangled story? Read our review to find out.

Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba Movie Review: Script Analysis

Kanika Dhillon writes the story with a very engaging start. From the word go, the love triangle is introduced, and the story gets woven in multiple layers. In fact, the first half of the story provides a brilliant whodunnit despite a predictable end. Going by the idea of loving the journey rather than being excited about the destination, Kanika perfectly travels through the lanes of Junooni Ishq.

However, the problematic part starts in the second half. The three protagonists of the film follow the novels of the writer Dinesh Pandit and find clues to keep their lives going, taking the steepest road to crime. But despite engaging everyone in the mess, Kanika Dhillon’s writing fails to peak in the second half. It tries to climb that peak but gasps for breath throughout.

Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba Movie Review: Star Performance

Despite its bumpy ride in the second half, Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba holds you very tightly. Say why? Because of the star cast. While Tapsee Pannu, as Rani Kashyap, knows this character way too well, Vikrant Massey’s chameleon shift from the shy Rinku to this raw and muscular one is enough to keep one hooked. Guess what could have helped the struggling second half? Probably a better cast than letting Sunny Kaushal play the psychotic new husband of Tapsee’s Rani. The only character that could have made the entire difference to this story and elevate it brilliantly.