mridu agarwal This is the very first time I am writing a review. I was very excited to watch this movie for a quite sometime, the trailers and the story and intrigued me a bit. I thought it would be a refreshing ROM-COM and by the Rep of Imtiaz Ali, I took it will be a well written and directed movie. The whole movie was just blew off the concept of love and friendship for me. After one drunk conversation with a good friend, the girl runs away and gets married because the girl was wanting to run away from marriage? What's the point here? One struggle, which was not even worth a real fight they hate each other and then fall in love again? Some scenes you are just like hey? what? seriously? no one does that! not even good friends fight for such petty issues these days. I lot could have been done, but it's a sheer waste of time and money. I suggest DO NOT GO FOR THIS MOVIE!

Andre Santhumayor LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL is a rom-com film directed by Arif Ali, starring Armaan Jain and Deeksha Seth.The film revolves around Dino and Karishma who decide to get married only to realize the problems involved with matrimony.Being directed by Arif Ali, LHDD does have similar shades that were present in his brother, Imitiaz Ali's LOVE AAJ KAL. Therefore, Arif Ali attempts to direct a similar rom-com; with its youth as its target audience. He even introduces Ranbir Kapoor's cousin, Armaan Jain, and newcomer, Deeksha Seth, in his debut film. However, the real question is: Does LHDD succeed?LHDD starts off by introducing us to its main characters, with college and friendship as its background; however, its evident that the main plot point is marriage. Inspite of tackling quite a mature topic for a film aimed at youth, LHDD does manage to somewhat do justice.However, there are several flaws in this film that prevents this film from outshining. While the first half is quite enjoyable with its witty one-liners and the very introduction to Dino and Karishma's insane idea, the second half completely derails from its unique story and goes down the same monotonously cliché'd plot seen in mostly every cliché'd film in Bollywood. This doesn't mean that its audience doesn't see it coming; no, one must know that entering LHDD means that ultimately all's well that ends well. However, one does hope that the director might have done it in a much better way. And speaking of 'a much better way', the story could have had some polishing done to it as well. While the film does have its heart in the right place, its plot is EXTREMELY haywire (Hint: we're in a jungle at one point in the film).Another shoutout to the film's runtime, which is 2h20m; with its first half spanning for 1h30m. LHDD would have been much better if they chopped out the unnecessary details which meant the film could have wrapped up by around the 2h mark.The acting isn't quite grand either. It's evident that Armaan Jain is making a great attempt, however, it requires a lot more work. Deeksha Seth, on the other hand, did quite a decent job; but maybe she required better material to showcase her true acting.Some of the plus points of the film is the several character quirks and without a doubt, AR Rahman's soundtrack. The film contains several chartbusters, however, LHDD blows through most of them in the first half. Why? I have no idea.In conclusion, LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL would've been better if its plot would've been more straightforward and its acting and direction, polished. The film is quite a decent watch if you're extremely bored or looking for a timepass flick; it'll entertain, and mostly appeal to the youth, as intended.LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL- 5.9/10

Shiraj Dakshy Arif Ali brother of Imtiaz Ali debuts in this movie as a director and introduces the new pair of Armaan Jain (Grandson of Raj Kapoor ) and Deeksha Seth (Miss India Finalist)…..Arif who also is the writer of the movie is heavily influenced by his Brother Imtiaz Ali's movies like "Socha Na Tha", "Jab We Met" and even his recent "Highway". So as you guessed it right the story is of a young couple Dinesh a.k.a Dinoo (Armaan Jain) and Karishma (Deeksha Seth) who are utterly confused whether they are in love or are just good friends , but they decide to elope as Karishma is forced to marry a groom from a Shetty family. They get married and travel half way through India from Goa to Nagpur to Raipur to the forest of Bastar after which they realize that they are not compatible and call it quits and return home. They apply for divorce so the remaining plot surrounds whether they separate or they come together.The issue of the screenplay written by Arif Ali himself first is the length of 140 mins which was not required for a wafer thin plot, secondly the screenplay which just does not go anywhere. Till the end the lead pair looks confused and not sure and so does the audience. After the movie is over you feel confused whether the couple were really in love. The first half when they elope has some moments but in the second half it drags unnecessarily. Even when they elope there was no requirement of putting the Naxalite angle, other than for a song sequence which looks straight out of the 80's & 90's movie wherein there used to be a song in the villain's den. Arif wanted to target this movie for the youth but unfortunately it does not have any elements which may lure the youth.The lead pair of Armaan Jain and Deeksha Seth does not impress at all, especially Armaan who has a heavy hangover of his Uncle Randhir Kapoor style of acting and his dialogue delivery & Diction needs to be polished. Deeksha Seth looks completely confused throughout the movie and looks like "Alice in Wonderland" not knowing what is happening. The rest of the ensemble cast of Kumud Mishra, Sudeep Sahir, Anita Kulkarni, Rohini Hattangadi, Varun Badola, Gautami Kapoor try to put some sense through their performances but all in vain as the writing is so weak that they could not salvage.Arif Ali's direction does not create any impact as his writing; he just fails to get the lead pair to act. Arif has concentrated more on the portraying the cool quotient like the lingo and the look of the movie but fails miserably to set the love story properly the first requisite in a love story, only if the look could make a movie work….Well there are only two highlights of the movie which shines in this otherwise chaos is the cinematography by Laxman Utekar which captures right from the cool city life of Mumbai to the forests of Chattisgarh extremely well and beautifully. Second highlight is the music by A R Rahman, especially the peppy "Khalifa" and the ever so romantic "Allahada" which is written beautifully by Amitabh Bhattacharya."Le Kar Hum Deewana Dil" is pointless and does not make any sense as it misses the soul completely.

Anup APu Kumar LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL - Arif Ali ,, brother of one of my favorite director Imtiaz Ali,,,,,and Armann Jain grandson of Raj Kapoor ,, both doesn't have a good start......It doesn't seems like they two have their genuine passion of doing Bollywood movies as Director and Actor respectively.....And if they are doing this just for the fact that somebody else (in case of Arif Ali) or everybody else(in case of Armaan Jain) in their family is doing this ,, then they should rethink about their carrier...... About Arif Ali i may say that may be he could do better with experience and if he got good stories(as this one is written by himself-so i can say he is quite a bad writer)......... But for Armaan Jain ,, this boy is seriously bad and could ruin the names of Kapoors.....He barely can act,,,,his expression are really bad,,,,and he dance awkward ....... In comparison to him Diksha as our lead actress is good if not very good,,,,but she has to improve as well.....But interestingly the supporting cast have helped little,,,,but that's not enough because most of the time supporting actors are not with them..... The story is totally aimless,,,,you cant imagine where its heading,,,,although predictable you will scream out loud why the same things keep happening without taking the story anywhere...... Sometimes you will think how boys and girls do such stupid things ....... Music is average,,,,that too from the gem of India A R Rehman ,,,, seems like he also have started giving his best only to the big or you can say selected directors...... Bad Editing is one of the biggest enemy in the movie,,,,,as the movie is just 2hr and 20min (that's one of the reason why i have decide to watch the movie regardless of the bad reviews as the movie was short) still you will wait that why not still the interval have come....Before half of the movie is finished you are already bored and you know that another is yet to come....... M not getting much to write about the movie,,,,simply skip it,,,,rather you may watch Bobby Jassos which got little better reviews ,, or Transformer 4 will be the best selection.... 4 out of 10 .... by ANuP APu KuMaR