Love Hostel Review: Bravura performances and screenplay make this honour killing drama a decent watch
Love Hostel Movie Rating: 3 Stars
Finally watched Love Hostel movie on Zee5 Premium. So let’s focus on the cast, release date story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Sanya Malhotra, Vikrant Massey, Bobby Deol, Aditi Vasudev, Swaroopa Ghosh, Raj Arjun, Yudhvir Ahlawat and Akshay Oberoi
Director: Shanker Raman
Release Date: 25th February 2022 on Zee5 Premium
Story: Set in Haryana, Jyoti (Sanya Malhotra) is a chartered accountant who belongs to a politician’s family. She decides to marry a Muslim boy Ashu (Vikrant Massey) whose family’s kasaikhana by the day and is a police mole involved with an illegal trade outfit in the night. His father is serving a jail sentence for an alleged arms-related crime.
On her marriage day Jyoti elopes with the help of a college professor and married to Ashu. As families don’t support the move, the couple decides to abscond and find peace for themselves in a government safe house called Love Hostel. Jyoti’s grandmother MLA Kamala Dilawar (Swaroopa Ghosh) hires the community’s favoured mercenary Dagar (Bobby Deol) to get hold of her granddaughter and eliminate the man she is in love with.
Kamala is a traditionalist and wants Jyoti back home so she can kill her. However, police inspector Sushil Rathi (Raj Arjun) is out to save the couple. If Dagar has his reasons to kill them, Rathi has his to save them. Besides the back stories of Dagar and Rathi. Meanwhile, to save the Dilawar family’s honour, Jyoti’s grandmother wants Jyoti’s younger sister Babli (Simran Rawal) to now marry the boy with whom Jyoti was to get married.
Will Dagar able to catch Ashu and Jyoti or Rathi able to save them? Will they able to elope and live their life happily. You need to watch this film for the rest of the story.
Positives
1. Excellent Performances
2. Screenplay
3. Direction
4. Length
Negatives
1. Music
2. Story
3. Climax
4. Predictable
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I watched the trailer of this film planned to watch this movie on release date because trailer looks very thrilling and exciting.
Set in Haryana, Love Hostel follows a newlywed interfaith couple, Ahmed and Jyoti is seek shelter in a government-safe home. This is a facility providing secret housing to similar couples who might be harmed by their parents or communities after they approach the court for protection. Ahmed and Jyoti’s happiness severely angers Jyoti’s grandmother, MLA Kamala Dilawar. Kamala is a traditionalist and wants Jyoti back home so she can kill her. She tasks Dagar, a killer-on-hire, out to penalize them for their actions.
Honour killing has been a topic of discussion in varied feature films, with filmmakers adapting the ideas as per their sensibilities. The latest to join the list of films around this world is Love Hostel. Director sets up the world to explore the dark side of Haryana, and to keep things short and gritty, he misses to build any sort of tension through the narrative. You don’t root for either of the leads as the director fails to create any sort of sympathy towards the leads and this is due to a lack of characterization. Too many subplots also act as a major spoiler in deviating from the core premise.
Overall film is a decent affair which rides on an exciting one-liner, but falters in the process of converting the idea into a full-length screenplay. The performances by three leads are the positives backed up with some decent production values are the positives, whereas the rest of it falls in the red zone. My view on this movie Recommended.
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