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Half Girlfriend
Critic reviews and ratings
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...half girlfriend or boyfriend is that person many of us have encountered on campus. However, do we really want to relive those memories? It depends entirely on the mood.
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Mohit Suri is in fine form at what he does best – the combination of melancholy and music.
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The book, despite its shortcomings, feels more an organic whole: the film, which was what the book was always going to be, tries too hard.
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...is strictly for fans of the book or the two leads, because at best it’s quarter tolerable.
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Bhagat’s novel suffered from the writer’s inability to imagine Riya as anything more than a half person. The film too abounds with many such half persons...
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...comes across as an overtly dramatic piece of cinematic work that fails to create the desired impact.
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When below average writing meets overenthusiastic hamming, it's like being simultaneously inflicted with a leg wound and a throbbing headache — you're reeling in pain from head to toe but can't tell which is more debilitating.
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Ruined by a bland, by-the-numbers plot and mediocre performance, Half Girlfriend is a painful adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's novel.
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...is too bad a film for human eyes. Unless, of course, you still like to watch love that is not only mushy, but also cringe-worthy, all at once.
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Mohit Suri makes a particular type of film—full of rain, pain and emotional strain— but, from moment to moment, scene to scene, he isn’t the most imaginative of directors. Nor are Shraddha Kapoor or Arjun Kapoor captivating actors...
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The constant issue in Half Girlfriend is its wimpy characters and the contrivances they resort to arrive at its predictable conclusion. Stupidity is responded with equal, if not more, stupidity.
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The film lacks two essentials. First, there is no visible chemistry between the leading actors. Their journey of falling in love is cut rather abruptly. Second, the love story isn't palpable enough.
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...a preposterously dimwitted romance...
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Neither a compelling tearjerker nor an epic contemporary romance, Half Girlfriend is definitely not the film to celebrate modern love.
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Through this half baked attempt at romance, social service, drunkenness you realise that Half Girlfriend is an asinine attempt at movie making...
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...replete with a series of utterly illogical events.
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Mohit Suri is not a bad filmmaker, but some of his decisions here are confounding.
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...is a misfire of epic proportions. Blame it on the book, or the script that it spawned, but this movie is excruciating to endure.
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