Spoilers ahead…
The film does not connect the dots for us. It just gives us a ton of loosely floating dots, and asks us to make patterns from them.
Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat feels like a heart-on-sleeve Imtiaz Ali film seen through Anurag Kashyap’s cynical eyes. Alaya F and Karan Mehta play two characters each. In a story set in Dalhousie, they are named Amrita and Yakub. In the story set in London, they are Ayesha and Harmeet. Both narratives, thus, are connected by the fact that one of them is a Muslim, and also by a podcaster/sutradhar who calls himself DJ Mohabbat (Vicky Kaushal): he lives and records his show in London, and that show is so popular that it is heard even in ramshackle gyms in Dalhousie. DJ Mohabbat’s philosophies sound like a motivational-poster version of the introduction Gulzar used to deliver before his songs began to play in his greatest-hits collection. For instance, he says that society does not teach us to be vulnerable, but vulnerability is like sunlight on a cold day: you have to feel it to know how comforting it can be. He then quotes a Gulzar song from Khamoshi: Humne dekhi hai. Gulzar writes that love has to be felt from the soul, like the vulnerability DJ Mohabbat talks about.
You can read the rest of the review here:
https://www.galatta.com/hindi/movie/review/almost-pyaar-with-dj-mohabbat/
And you can watch the video review here:
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Sri Prabhuram
February 5, 2023
Was hoping you would get a chance to review this film. Even though I found it enjoyable, I thought the soundtrack of this film was the weakest out of all the Kashyap-Trivedi collaborations.
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Rahul
February 5, 2023
I am not going to compare it with their other work, but I thought the music held its own pretty well. It would have been better if they had composed 3–4 more songs.
One great line – Toxic pada mujhko yaara , ye bluetick tumhara
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Anu Warrier
February 6, 2023
Oh, I’m looking forward to this. I’ve enjoyed Alaya’s work ever since I watched her in Jawane Janeman and saw her hold her own against Saif Ali Khan and Tabu.
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rsylviana
February 6, 2023
Which OTT platform is this streaming on ? Or is this a theatrical release?
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hari prasad
February 6, 2023
It’s a theatrical release and I couldn’t find this movie and Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam anywhere in the Chennai multiplexes…
They should have removed one show of Varisu and Avatar 2 to accommodate these movies
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Rahul
February 6, 2023
Anurag stated that OTT would have provided a good return on investment, but these kids have given him six years of their lives, so he owes them a theatrical release. His own words.
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Rocky
February 6, 2023
The number of comments on this thread are probably the number of tickets sold of this another disaster of a movie by Khapshyap. Now toh even OTT people are done with him .
Satyanash lol
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kaizokukeshav
February 6, 2023
Does Pakistani father not allow non-muslims because they are Kafirs (and even a lot of them are rapists in their narrative) ? It seems some of the dots are not seen because they are marked with black ink in a black paper.
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Apu
February 9, 2023
This movie came without much promo – I would love to watch Alaya – she is such a natural.
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