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Ramaiya Vastavaiya movie review: Old masala rehashed in a new pack

The lady from a small town village (Shruti Haasan) is wooed by a crazy NRI  guy (Girsih Kumar) at a wedding.  Their families (Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Sonu Sood and Vinod Khanna) go into an



Churning out all the flavours of the late 80's and 90's in his drama, he fails to bind us in this over the top melodramatical journey. The story which could have been treated with renovation is left pale.

You can't even term it as an ode to cinematic excellence which used to be loved by the admirers earlier. In fact the sole purpose of this flick seems to launch Girish Kumar with an already tried and tested formula. But unfortunately he also fails to capitalize on this safe formula.

The first half almost resembles Salman Khan's 1989 ‘Maine Pyar Kiya' while the second half  could be compared with his 1998 ‘Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya'.

In order to follow those bygone proceedings, Prabhu employs actors like Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon and Vinod Khanna who try too hard to be rational.