Main Tera Hero (2014) Movie Review

Director: David Dhawan
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Ileana D’Cruz, Nargis Fakhri

If you’ve got  a lot of time on your hands and don’t know what to do with it, humour yourself with this Varun Dhawan-Ileana D’Cruz starred rom-com, which will leave you gripping your sides in laughter. This film is 2 hours of pure entertainment with a lot of good dialogues, rocking music, ebullient dance sequences and crazy high-end drama. The plot is a bit insipid but lets us know that the Hero will do whatever it takes to get his Heroine (don’t all romantic movies portray the same theme?)

The movie opens with our debonair hero, Sheenu (Varun Dhawan) receiving news of his failure to clear the final examinations (which he takes as only a hero in reel life can!) and his subsequent notorious act of kidnapping his professor’s daughter on the day of her marriage and holding her as ransom for 2 marks (which is apparently all he needs to pass!) And so, this unreal story continues, twisted of course to make it funny and watchable. Sheenu decides to leave town and go to the big city of Bangalore in order to get a degree. A noteworthy trait of Sheenu is that he is a religious guy and has friendly chats with God, whom he acknowledges in different forms, as Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh and Jesus. No matter where he sees their idols or pictures, he stops to have a chat with them (perhaps something we can learn). He is also blessed with the grace all devotees long for, i.e. immediate responses from God. 

He enrolls himself in a prestigious college, in which his friend and host in Bangalore, studies in. On the first day, he encounters the love of his life, Sunaina (Ileana D’Cruz) and goes out of his way to win her affection. Later, he is enlightened about her ‘special status’ of being the future bride of Angad Negi (Arunoday Singh), a hulk who passes himself off as a ‘friendly neighbourhood policeman’ which he is evidently not, despite taking classes for anger management which do him a lot of good really. She is ‘forced’ into this relationship with him and she is not happy about it. And so the tussle between our overly self-confident, sharp-tongued, garrulous, macho hero and Negi, for the love of Sunaina, begins and continues throughout the film. Negi challenges Sheenu to win the affection of Sunaina which he does with ease and finesse. 

Just when the lovers are cuddling up to each other, tragedy strikes. Sunaina is kidnapped by a Gangster Don, Vikranth (Anupam Kher) whose beautiful daughter, Ayesha (Nargis Fakhri) desires to marry Sheenu after seeing him in action while on the train from his hometown to Bangalore. Thus, the second part of the film begins, located in the posh bungalow of Vikranth in Bangkok. Sheenu is torn between the two girls: the one he loves and the one who is infatuated with him. He engages in satirical talk, mockery, double cross, scheming and such-like antics in order to win back his true love. The drama is intensified when Negi and his faithful sidekick, Peter (Rajpal Yadav) arrive to take back Sunaina in keeping with the deal cut between Negi and Vikranth. Ayesha realizes that she actually loves Negi and confides in Sheenu. Sheenu exploits this situation to try and free himself from his imminent marriage to Ayesha, which he ultimately succeeds in doing, thereby winning back the love of his life. The movie ends happily with Negi and Ayesha marrying and Sheenu and Sunaina together again.

The film has relatively few songs which are of good quality and coupled well with impressively choreographed dances. The unreal plot can be forgiven as the comedy expiates it. The film upholds the idealism of youth and satisfies the longing for a ‘happy ending’. Varun Dhawan and Ileana D’Cruz deliver sizzling performances. Rajpal is a delight to watch. Arunoday Singh leaves something to be desired. Anupam Kher executes his double role brilliantly. The film provides hearty laughs and good entertainment, making it an exhilarating experience.

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