Pooja Hegde and Akhil Akkineni prop up a part-fun, part-preachy romantic comedy -

The film’s title is far much less of an announcement and additional of a question, and thereby hangs a narrative. In customary societal norms, Harsha (Akhil Akkineni) would tick the entire containers to qualify as most likely essentially the most eligible bachelor. He has a well-paying job inside the US, invests in a model new dwelling and items up all of the issues to maneuver in alongside along with his soulmate. He even turns down a live-in overture on account of he’s the quintessential good man who doesn’t must do one factor that his family once more in India, wouldn’t approve of. Sweet, isn’t it?

Nonetheless does Harsha really know what he wants from marriage? The story throws this question at Harsha by pitting him in opposition to a additional worldly smart lady, Vibha (Pooja Hegde). The self-love inside the technique of Harsha’s large, doting family is obvious in one of the simplest ways they make preparations for his wedding ceremony, although he’s however to determine on his bride. Harsha arrives in India on a 20-day journey and every he and his family are assured that points will fall in place. After all, he’s most likely essentially the most eligible bachelor.

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Many girls who’ve gone by means of the rigours of matchmaking may have come all through NRI grooms visiting India barely for just some days and keen to find a life companion in that interval. That form of entitlement from a groom’s family is more likely to be accepted by some, nonetheless there is perhaps women like Vibha who will question it.

It’s a associated and engaging premise for a rom-com. Harsha’s conferences with potential brides, interspersed with the comedy of errors when he runs into Vibha’s father (Murali Sharma) are satisfying to look at. What happens when Harsha, who doesn’t know the world exterior his cocoon, is eager about Vibha and begins absorbing every line she says, is narrated hilariously.

To current Vibha’s character a further edge, she is portrayed as a slapstick comedian. Her jokes are practically on a regular basis on marriages and relationships nonetheless the traces are barely bland. As a result of the story progresses, we understand what gnaws at her and the best way she turns her agony into jokes.

So far so good. Nonetheless after posing the question of what Harsha wants from marriage, the story falters. In precise life, had Harsha returned from the US the second time, pushed by the eagerness to fulfill Vibha and mend points after a spat, he may have gone and had a chat collectively together with her. Nonetheless it's a rom-com with out lots creativeness. Inside the garb of together with humour and drama, the narrative reveals Harsha shadowing Vibha. He isn’t a creepy stalker however it nonetheless doesn’t actually really feel like the appropriate resolution to do it. Actually there are larger strategies by which the story might have confirmed how they begin to bond.

Inside the technique of Harsha and Vibha discovering their soulmates in each other, the story ends up painting all totally different {{couples}} spherical them as people caught in unhappy marriages. Marriage is all about modifications, characters protect reiterating. Director Bhaskar says it doesn’t have to be so, by means of a narrative that may get preachy. One in all many tropes within the route of the highest, as a consequence of which Vibha finds a safety internet in Harsha, moreover comes all through as manipulative.

A good portion of the story is narrated inside the presence of real-life couple Rahul Ravindran and Chinmayi Sripada who’re adored for standing by each other in events of turmoil. This story ends up painting even their characters as people who endure their marriage with compromises and modifications. Sigh. It might effectively’t be that solely Harsha and Vibha are determined to information their life with ever-lasting romance, isn’t it?

Most Eligible Bachelor has technical finesse, a beautiful lead pair, gives just some laughs and hummable songs, nonetheless doesn’t sweep you off your ft. Pooja Hegde is gorgeous as Vibha and reveals that she has additional showing potential able to be tapped. Akhil Akkineni reveals a complete lot of enchancment as an actor and is nice as Harsha. Among the many many melee of supporting actors, solely Murali Sharma stands out.

Someplace in the middle of the film, Harsha tells one different character that she has seen the scale and breadth of a problem nonetheless not its depth. The similar goes for this film. Its understanding of what makes relationships click on on stays at a ground diploma.