Ek Din Movie Review: Gentle, simple, heartwarming love stories are always welcome, especially in this climate where one can’t ignore Hindi cinema’s obsessive affinity towards aggressive, gory, testosterone-pumped actioners. But simplicity shouldn’t be mistaken for shallowness or a lack of substance.
Sai Pallavi and Junaid Khan’s latest outing, Ek Din, unfortunately, is that. The film needs you to suspend disbelief but that’s hardly the problem. Its weakest link is its linearity, which renders the narrative a looming layer of monotony. The makers are so intent on keeping things breezy and neat that they never quite engage with the emotional mess of the characters.As a result, you too try very hard and eventually fail to see the complications that could’ve given the film some bit of depth. Ek Din revolves around the lives of colleagues, Dinesh Kumar Srivastav and Meera Ranganathan. But let’s go to the very beginning – the opening sequence. To highlight how unassuming and regular our male protagonist is, we get to see a filmy montage.
