The movie revolves around Vasudha (Vidya Balan). In this movie she plays the wife of Hari (Rajkumar Rao). Vasudha struggles with life with her son after Hari mysteriously vanishes after one year of their marriage. Vasudha works in a five star hotel to wade off her poverty.
In a sudden turn of events, Vasudha is asked to decorate the presidential suite of the hotel where the owner Aarav (Emraan Hashmi) who plays a millionaire hotelier has come to stay. As Vasudha is decorating Aarav falls in love with Vasudha and offers her a higher job. The movie takes some interesting twists and turns from here on.
Some of them are; a fire alarm prank played by Aarav, Vasudha accepting the job offer. The twists and turns are quite evident as there is love brewing between Aarav and Vasudha. Hari, who is declared a terrorist, comes back to Vasudha and abuses her physically and emotionally and imposes himself over her and Vasudha is caught between her true love and her married life.
There are many other twists and turns in the movie but it's better you discover it yourself, I will not divulge much. There is also a small story about Aarav's childhood and a similarity between Vasudha's story and Aarav's mother.
Watch out for some cliché dialogues and moments in the movie.
'Hamari Adhuri Kahani' is a movie which looks into the various aspects of the life of a woman whose husband is missing for years and the traditions that a woman has to follow in her married life.
There is no particular time when true love happens, it can happen anytime in a person's life. The movie touches on the intriguing complications of love and traditions.
Performance wise, Emraan Hashmi plays his character with ease. He is charming as a hotel magnet in love.
Rajkumar Rao is quite convincing as a male chauvinist husband. Vidya Balan has justified her character with a good performance in the movie as a woman in the middle and at the edge of her marriage and her true love.
‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’ takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride from the beginning till the end. The whole movie is shown as a flashback read out from Hari's diary. Director Mohit Suri has done a good job in ensuring suspense and the topsy turvy nature of the emotional saga.
The direction overall is impressive, dialogues are very impactful, story line and screenplay is good, while the music is soulful and nice. (ANI)