Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna Movie Review: Karanvir Bohra’s Darr-Inspired Love Story Is a Soul-less Replica

Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna Movie Review: Popular television star and theatre artiste Karanvir Bohra tries luck again in becoming the leading man in Bollywood with Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna. A home production for the star, Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna is directed by Lalit Mohan, and also stars Priya Banerjee and Sameer Kochar. The trailer might have told you that the film is heavily inspired by Yash Chopra's Darr, that starred Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla and Shah Rukh Khan in the lead. BREAKING: Director Lalit Mohan Reveals The Real Reason Why Karanvir Bohra’s Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna’s Release Was Postponed!

The movie also doesn't give you any other impression. Except that this is no longer about a college crush gone wrong, but gets into crazy fan-stalking. Interestingly Shah Rukh Khan himself had attempted that in, well, FAN. So what is new with Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna?

Dhruv (Karanvir Bohra) is obsessed with Ananya (Priya Banerjee), a successful and popular novelist. She is so successful that she had own bouncers who disappear faster from the film than you complete saying the movie's name. And so popular, that her betrothal makes it to the front page of the newspaper.

Dhruv is so obsessed with her that he starts a cafe in front of her house, and even joins her class where she teaches literature. Ananya is also friendly with him but is oblivious of the stalker signs he often displays. Things go berserk for her when her engagement with a tycoon Ranveer (Sameer Kochar) is announced, and Dhruv goes on a rage mode in trying to win her heart.

Darr is such an iconic movie that it feels almost suicidal to think of remaking the movie, especially in these times, when it can fear accusations of glamorising stalking. But more importantly, whether the reboot/remake can ever do any justice to the thrills that the original offered or Shah Rukh Khan's creepy 'K...K... K... Kiran' act. Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna feels more like a pale shadow of the film that its owner wants to run away from as far as possible.

The movie generously borrows a couple of scenes from the original film, like the iconic chase scene and the violent climax, when Karanvir gets completely into SRK mode. Why it even brings in Juhi Chawla for a very thankless cameo.

Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna could have worked if the treatment was made tailored to the current times. Instead, save for a few kissing scenes, everything about the film feels it belongs to a bygone era and not in a quaint way, like the song that inspired the movie's title. Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna Song Manmohini: Scarlett Wilson and Karanvir Bohra Number Will Make You Want To Put On Your Dancing Shoes.

To be fair, Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna was engaging in the middle portions when Dhruv's obsession becomes a rage. But the sudden shift of the character from a besotted fan to a murderous stalker is very jerky.

It also doesn't help that the girl he is obsessed with acts like a klutz whose actions defy all sorts of logic. Like, when Ananya gets her first threatening letter, she stubbornly refuses to tell her fiancee, because 'his mother doesn't like her'. Even when the shit hits the ceiling, she is adamant enough not to take his help. It is not just the girl who treats the poor bloke like a non-entity. Even the movie does that too with Ranveer, treating him like a third wheel in a love story when it should have been Dhruv. Imagine, how much the film hates you when you arrive later than the police in a Hindi movie after the mess is over!

Watch the trailer of Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna here:

Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna is set in the picturesque Manali, where everyone talks in prose. I get it if the leads want to annoy us that way, at least one of them is an author, and the other a book-lover. But why does every random character has to speak like that? And when it takes a break from rhyming, the movie gives us a cop who quotes from popular Hollywood movies. He could have been a really cool character, if the movie offered him any purpose other than being a minor annoyance to the female lead. In a sacrilegious act, he even misquotes a line from Jurassic Park, which actually belongs to its sequel, The Lost World. Well, it's expected from a movie that spells 'Intermission' as 'Intermition'. Kidding you not! The songs are pretty decent, though, it pops up in very short intervals.

The Performances

Karanvir Bohra is a very decent actor, and he is committed to the role. That is, when he doesn't bring to ape Shah Rukh Khan, especially in the climax. Priya Banerjee gasps more than she acts. Sameer Kochar is pretty okay in a wafer-thin role.

Yay!

- Manali is a beautiful place, isn't it?

- The Songs are Pretty Okay

- Mercifully Short

Nay!

- A Lame Ripoff of Darr

Final Thoughts

To rephrase a popular saying from Rumi, whom this movie's characters love to quote, Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna feels like an empty page, untouched by any real sentiments. At best it is a lame imitation of an iconic film that refuses to understand what really worked in the original film. Skip this one!

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