Today, I read Review about Ladies vs Ricky Bahl Movie on Mouthshut.com – The Consumer Review Website
Con films can make up for a thrilling watch if handled well and if the situation in which the conman plays its game seems as believable as possible. And that’s where our recent Hindi con films have suffered. Barring a few well-made ones, the rest seemed too unreal and unconvincing. Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl too has moments where the script has glaring loopholes but still seems convincing enough. The script is smart, the con tricks are smarter and rest assured viewers get their money’s worth!
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Con films can make up for a thrilling watch if handled well and if the situation in which the conman plays its game seems as believable as possible. And that’s where our recent Hindi con films have suffered. Barring a few well-made ones, the rest seemed too unreal and unconvincing. Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl too has moments where the script has glaring loopholes but still seems convincing enough. The script is smart, the con tricks are smarter and rest assured viewers get their money’s worth! The story of the movie: Ricky Bahl (Ranveer Singh) is the smartest conman. His modus operandi is simple - he’ll first charm his victim (the girls) and then con them! He does that in Delhi impersonating as Sunny Singh and conning Dimple Chadha (Parineeti Chopra) and later Raina Parulekar (Dipanitta Sharma Atwal) as Deven Shah in Mumbai and Saira Rashid (Aditi Sharma) as Iqbal Khan in Lucknow . By a chance encounter, these three women come together and they devise a plan - conning the conman and getting their money back. Raina’s ambitious friend Ishika Desai (Anushka Sharma) , a street smart sales girl joins them and goes to Goa (Ricky’s next con-destination) to be Ricky Bahl’s next ‘target’. However, will it be easy to con such a successful conman?
Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl suffers from the same problem like many recent films - mind-blowing first hour followed by not-that-great second half. The first half of the film is simply out of the world! Most applauding is the manner in which Ricky Bahl fooled the three girls. All the con-work seemed believable especially the Delhi episode (which was easily the best part of the film)! The drama moves at a super-quick but reasonable pace and doesn’t provide even a moment to blink! Dimple and Saira getting hold of Raina’s contact details seemed a bit far-fetched but you don’t mind since there’s so much happening in the film. The intermission point comes at an apt moment and you can’t wait for the second half to commence!
It isn’t that the second half outright disappoints. It begins well and the way in which the ladies put their plan into action was fun to witness. However, the chemistry between Ranveer-Anushka which was supposed to be crucially electrifying was instead too thanda . Somehow, one fails to connect or empathize with Anushka Sharma, who falls in love with the person she’s supposed to con. However, the film picks up towards the pre-climax when it gets unpredictable and one never knows what will happen next. The climax again was mediocre and Ranveer’s sudden change of decision sounded filmy. But then, it’s always better to resort to filmy ways rather than trying something different and messing up things!
RATING: 3.5/5
