Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon, Jim Sarbh, Varun Sharma

Director: Dinesh Vijan

Written by: Siddharth-Garima

Produced by: Dinesh Vijan, Homi Adajania, Bhushan Kumar

Genre: Romance

Duration:170Mins

Bollywood is not over with stories involving reincarnation, but after watching Raabta, I am definitely over it! Dinesh Vijan's directorial debut is set in Budapest where the protagonist Shiv (Sushant Singh Rajput) makes a move on every local girl until he sets his eyes on Saira (Kriti Sanon) a baker by profession, both realize there is a connection and already start planning their wedding when they meet.At the same time convey to us it that 's happening too fast by talking about it every moment.

Sushant Singh tries too hard to come across as lovable and mushy and fails miserably whereas Kriti Sanon is half decent in some places. The story then moves on and Saira meets Zack (Jim Sarbh) a multimillionaire and a blast from way past. She sees dreams of her drowning and Shiv and Zack materializing then vanishing. We’re then told that in a previous lifetime, Zack and Saira were in love, until a savage warrior Shiv, seduced her away. Even though Zack is creepy and twitchy Saira is oblivious to the fact and goes on a date with him where she ends up being drugged and carried in a helicopter to a remote island. From there on the story slumps.

The flashback story then begins where clearly one can seen influences of Game Of Thrones, Dothraki is changed to Muraki and the costumes are nothing different. Even the end seems bit like Titanic where Shiv and Saira are floating with the help of a wooden plank, in the entire movie both of them have jumped several times in a sea but apparently didn't require a plank then.

Rajkumar Rao's role seems unnecessary and feels to me like a waste of a fine actor. His face is emotionless, maybe due to the ounces of makeup applied to make him look eccentric, which again was not needed.Shots of Sushant Singh Rajput diving into water Shirtless were also redundant.The filmmakers have tried hard to divulge from the hackneyed concept of reincarnation but have failed to do so. Jim Sarbh’s dialogue delivery is painfully awkward and those evil villain lines lose their gravity when spoken. This film fails to follow the writer's most common advice of "Show, don't tell" and throughout the movie tell us about a connection which audience would fail to see.

Budapest shots are lovely and the movie is technically sound. The Raabta song looks grand on screen and for a moment Deepika Padukone steals the show. Although Sushant fails in delivering the character he does look dapper. The reincarnation only increases the time of the movie and not the depth, love seems forced and we cannot feel the connection as clearly evident by the movie title.

It misses the raw passion of a love story and without it, it is just one in a gazillion love story.