Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

mridu agarwal This is the very first time I am writing a review. I was very excited to watch this movie for a quite sometime, the trailers and the story and intrigued me a bit. I thought it would be a refreshing ROM-COM and by the Rep of Imtiaz Ali, I took it will be a well written and directed movie. The whole movie was just blew off the concept of love and friendship for me. After one drunk conversation with a good friend, the girl runs away and gets married because the girl was wanting to run away from marriage? What's the point here? One struggle, which was not even worth a real fight they hate each other and then fall in love again? Some scenes you are just like hey? what? seriously? no one does that! not even good friends fight for such petty issues these days. I lot could have been done, but it's a sheer waste of time and money. I suggest DO NOT GO FOR THIS MOVIE!

binducherungath Lekar Hum Deewana Dil, a film by Arif Ali (Imtiaaz Ali's brother), turns out to be a juvenile movie. Movies viz. Bobby, Love Story, Betaab, Kayamat se Kayamat Taq, Saathiyan and many more in the yesteryears had the concept of elopement and getting married but were so sensibly handled that these movies turned out to be the blockbusters. Lekar Hum Deewana Dil fails to touch your heart with childish scenes. It has no elements of Romance. Rather, for major parts of the movie, the protagonists are shown to be fighting in a silly manner. Probably the director's attempt was to show that in love also, one has to be logical and practical. Arif also wanted to discuss whether the love can survive the challenges and the hard-core reality of life. Definitely, the movie could have been another great romantic movie, but somewhere the script, actors, performances …everything falls apart. I just wish, the movie was given a different and treatment so as to make this movie a good one to watch. The movie begins with Rahman's Khaleefa song as part of wedding celebration of "K" aka Karishma Sethi (debutant Deekhsa Seth). Dino aka Dinesh Nigam (Armaan Jain, another debutant and the latest entry from Kapoor clan) is there in the wedding house to elope with Karishma. Dino helps Karishma to elope with him and he is happy that he could save his good friend from an arranged marriage and Karishma is happy to get the support of Dino to escape from parental pressure of marriage. Both of them figure out, while they are drunk, that they are very good friends and so only perfect for each other. They feel that their match is decided in heaven and they decide to tie knot with each other. Dino and Karishma assumed that they would be able to retain their happiness forever and their lives would be roller-coaster for them, but they were far away from the reality.They had to run from one location to another, Mumbai to Goa to Nagpur to Raipur to save themselves from being caught. Ultimately they land up amongst Maoists in Dantwada. Blame-game begins between the two, when the harsh realities hit them.What happens thereafter? Do their families accept them back? Do they realize that they are happy together? How do the events unfold? Everything is very much predictable. The dialogues are very very mediocre. There is no warmth in the dialogues. Forced acronyms viz. atah.com (Apni Taqdeer Apne Haath), DMC (Dekho Magar Chuo Mat), Blunder.com (for some unexpected bad situations), AP (Aagyakari Putra) are used which does not seem to be funny at all.Let us not judge Armaan and Deeksha and write them off. Armaan takes efforts to be cool and Deeksha tries to look spontaneous / chirpy. But the plot, dialogues, music, dance moves…nothing has worked in their favour. Dev, elder brother of Dino (Sudeep Sahir) is noticeable. Rohini Hattangidi as judge and Gautami Kapoor as psychiatrist have justified their characters, rest of the cast is almost forgettable. AR Rahman's music fails to create any impact. An item song (rather a cabaret number) in Maoist camp seems so unreal and leaves you disgruntled.

Andre Santhumayor LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL is a rom-com film directed by Arif Ali, starring Armaan Jain and Deeksha Seth.The film revolves around Dino and Karishma who decide to get married only to realize the problems involved with matrimony.Being directed by Arif Ali, LHDD does have similar shades that were present in his brother, Imitiaz Ali's LOVE AAJ KAL. Therefore, Arif Ali attempts to direct a similar rom-com; with its youth as its target audience. He even introduces Ranbir Kapoor's cousin, Armaan Jain, and newcomer, Deeksha Seth, in his debut film. However, the real question is: Does LHDD succeed?LHDD starts off by introducing us to its main characters, with college and friendship as its background; however, its evident that the main plot point is marriage. Inspite of tackling quite a mature topic for a film aimed at youth, LHDD does manage to somewhat do justice.However, there are several flaws in this film that prevents this film from outshining. While the first half is quite enjoyable with its witty one-liners and the very introduction to Dino and Karishma's insane idea, the second half completely derails from its unique story and goes down the same monotonously cliché'd plot seen in mostly every cliché'd film in Bollywood. This doesn't mean that its audience doesn't see it coming; no, one must know that entering LHDD means that ultimately all's well that ends well. However, one does hope that the director might have done it in a much better way. And speaking of 'a much better way', the story could have had some polishing done to it as well. While the film does have its heart in the right place, its plot is EXTREMELY haywire (Hint: we're in a jungle at one point in the film).Another shoutout to the film's runtime, which is 2h20m; with its first half spanning for 1h30m. LHDD would have been much better if they chopped out the unnecessary details which meant the film could have wrapped up by around the 2h mark.The acting isn't quite grand either. It's evident that Armaan Jain is making a great attempt, however, it requires a lot more work. Deeksha Seth, on the other hand, did quite a decent job; but maybe she required better material to showcase her true acting.Some of the plus points of the film is the several character quirks and without a doubt, AR Rahman's soundtrack. The film contains several chartbusters, however, LHDD blows through most of them in the first half. Why? I have no idea.In conclusion, LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL would've been better if its plot would've been more straightforward and its acting and direction, polished. The film is quite a decent watch if you're extremely bored or looking for a timepass flick; it'll entertain, and mostly appeal to the youth, as intended.LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL- 5.9/10

Shiraj Dakshy Arif Ali brother of Imtiaz Ali debuts in this movie as a director and introduces the new pair of Armaan Jain (Grandson of Raj Kapoor ) and Deeksha Seth (Miss India Finalist)…..Arif who also is the writer of the movie is heavily influenced by his Brother Imtiaz Ali's movies like "Socha Na Tha", "Jab We Met" and even his recent "Highway". So as you guessed it right the story is of a young couple Dinesh a.k.a Dinoo (Armaan Jain) and Karishma (Deeksha Seth) who are utterly confused whether they are in love or are just good friends , but they decide to elope as Karishma is forced to marry a groom from a Shetty family. They get married and travel half way through India from Goa to Nagpur to Raipur to the forest of Bastar after which they realize that they are not compatible and call it quits and return home. They apply for divorce so the remaining plot surrounds whether they separate or they come together.The issue of the screenplay written by Arif Ali himself first is the length of 140 mins which was not required for a wafer thin plot, secondly the screenplay which just does not go anywhere. Till the end the lead pair looks confused and not sure and so does the audience. After the movie is over you feel confused whether the couple were really in love. The first half when they elope has some moments but in the second half it drags unnecessarily. Even when they elope there was no requirement of putting the Naxalite angle, other than for a song sequence which looks straight out of the 80's & 90's movie wherein there used to be a song in the villain's den. Arif wanted to target this movie for the youth but unfortunately it does not have any elements which may lure the youth.The lead pair of Armaan Jain and Deeksha Seth does not impress at all, especially Armaan who has a heavy hangover of his Uncle Randhir Kapoor style of acting and his dialogue delivery & Diction needs to be polished. Deeksha Seth looks completely confused throughout the movie and looks like "Alice in Wonderland" not knowing what is happening. The rest of the ensemble cast of Kumud Mishra, Sudeep Sahir, Anita Kulkarni, Rohini Hattangadi, Varun Badola, Gautami Kapoor try to put some sense through their performances but all in vain as the writing is so weak that they could not salvage.Arif Ali's direction does not create any impact as his writing; he just fails to get the lead pair to act. Arif has concentrated more on the portraying the cool quotient like the lingo and the look of the movie but fails miserably to set the love story properly the first requisite in a love story, only if the look could make a movie work….Well there are only two highlights of the movie which shines in this otherwise chaos is the cinematography by Laxman Utekar which captures right from the cool city life of Mumbai to the forests of Chattisgarh extremely well and beautifully. Second highlight is the music by A R Rahman, especially the peppy "Khalifa" and the ever so romantic "Allahada" which is written beautifully by Amitabh Bhattacharya."Le Kar Hum Deewana Dil" is pointless and does not make any sense as it misses the soul completely.