The greatest problem that a family faces is accepting their loved ones for who they really are. On the other hand, their own daughter, who is a self-made women is not happy with her marriage and wants a divorce. The film is about a lot of things but mostly its about acceptance. The filthy rich couple is on the verge of being bankrupt and their only way out is getting their son who is a good-for-nothing-nobody to marry one of their associates’s daughter. The film is about The Mehra’s and their 10 day cruise where they are to celebrate their anniversary. DilDhadakne Do has all the potential to do what it was supposed to do, but the tiresome screenplay and the snail-pace doesn’t work in its way. First of all, even though ZNMD was about people from the First World, it was quite relate-able as it had quirky characters and touchy and realistic moments. I never complained about the theme of the film, because I knew that Zoya Akhtar could pull it off. The film travels across the world as their perspectives about life, people and everything that’s wrong with them, changes.
Much like Zoya Akhtar’s previous film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Dil Dhadakne Do basically deals with people suffering from First World problems. The emotions don’t hit the right spot, the screenplay drags leaving you helpless with every passing second, and quite like The Mehra’s you want to shout at the film to get a kick-start but you don’t just because you are too nice.
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But as the movie proceeds you just crave for something good to come your way. Even though nothing substantial happens, Akhtar makes you hold your pee pre-interval just because you have faith in her and the people on-board. As the film came to a long and halted close, I stretched my legs and felt something a miss. There are moments of brilliance in Zoya Akhtar’s DilDhadakne Do, but they are far-stretched and too insipid to leave a mark.