LoveYatri Movie Review: Aayush Sharma, Warina Hussain's Debut Film

The hero of LoveYatri is a Garba coach who has no interest in academic pursuits. The guy is called Susu, an abbreviation of Sushrut. Yes, that is indeed his name! His lack of ambition, held up as a sign of his free-spirited nature, is contrasted with the career-oriented ways of the heroine Manisha/Michelle, a London girl on the verge of entering the portals of the British capital's most prestigious B-school and then landing an 85,000-pound-a-year financial sector job.

She arrives in Vadodara during Navratri, her father Sameer Patel (Ronit Roy), the owner of a laundry chain, in tow. Boy and girl meet and fall in love. When the stuffy laundry man discovers what the two youngsters are up to, he puts his foot down. He takes Susu to the top of a stuck Ferris wheel to show him the extent of the heaven-and-earth class difference between him and the girl he is smitten by. A world separates my super-ambitious daughter from the drifter that you are, so leave Michelle alone, the dad thunders. The heart-broken boy goes into a tizzy. With nine days to win Warina's heart, Aayush decides to woo her with lines like, "Iss Navratri mein aisa jaadu hai, ki kisi ko Jaadu (the alien from Koi Mil Gaya) jaisa feel nahi hoga."

Aayush and Warina fail to impress in their debut film and have zero chemistry, although the poorly written romantic track might have a role to play in the latter. Aayush's unidimensional performance is one degree better than Warina's vapid expression throughout the film. She is gorgeous to look at, but that's about it. Even seasoned actors Ronit Roy and Ram Kapoor are off the mark in the film.

Loveyatri lacks both imagination and logic. The hackneyed storyline and half-baked romance makes it a tedious watch. And the less said about the film's logic, the better. There is a character who does not think twice before framing someone for assault, but takes an inexplicable U-turn after being told, "Don't play dirty games. Play Garba." Okay, then.

In Loveyatri, director Abhiraj Minawala takes the as-old-as-time route of a poor boy falling in love with a rich girl, but fails to infuse any life into it.