So Behen Hogi Teri sparkles and soon enough, sputters out. And unlike Rajkummar, Shruti doesn’t have the acting chops to camouflage that. Basically, Binny is half-baked and poorly written. Binny is in love with Gattu but she’s also happily doing wedding shopping with her fiancée Rahul. But she forces her sister to forcibly tie a rakhi to a boy she likes. This character is supposed to be a phataka. My other problem is that I didn’t get Binny, played by Shruti Haasan. Though I did enjoy seeing Ranjit on screen again as Bhura’s criminal tauji. The tangle of misunderstandings and lies goes on and on until you wish Bhura’s jailbird father, played by a glowering Gulshan Grover, would just shoot someone. The second half is stretched and tedious. Behen Hogi Teri unravels as the love story ties itself up in knots. But Ajay can’t sustain the comic momentum. There are some lively scenes in the first half – Binny’s dadi’s funeral becomes an unexpected romantic highlight in Gattu’s life.
Pannalal, who has previously made a Punjabi film, gets the textures of the locality – it’s a microcosm of curious characters, high drama and of course, comedy. In another scene, his best friend Bhura talks about how he hardly ever met his father because he was always in jail. At one point, Gattu solemnly declares: hum bhi cultured launde hain.
The film is peppered with funny lines that feel exactly right in this small town milieu. The other plus in Behen Hogi Teri are the dialogues written by Ajay K. He describes her as his ‘knicker ke zamane ki mohabbat’. Gattu is a hapless, bumbling lover boy whose object of affection is the girl next door Binny. Even as this film gets more convoluted and exasperating, his sincerity stays on point. Rajkummar has the ability to light up even the most banal scenes. Firstly, it’s got Rajkummar Rao as Gattu, the boy next door, in a Lucknow mohalla. Behen Hogi Teri could have and should’ve been a better film.
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