Producer: Surjit S. Pandher
Director: Lawrence D'Souza
Cast: Jaz Pandher, Gurline Chopra
Music: Nadeem Shravan

Himalaya Motion Pictures' ‘Indian Babu’ directed by Lawrence D'Souza doesn’t boast of any highflying expectations and novelty in any regard. The film is loosely inspired from ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ in the first part and the second part follows with twists and turns on the route of predictability. The outcome is overall lackluster.

Dil (Gurleen Chopra) gets engaged to Abhay (Rajat Gowda), son of Thakur Suraj Pratap Singh (Mukesh Rishi). Soon her father Sharad Babu (Alok Nath) learns that she has a hole in her heart. Abhay’s London based uncle Karan Thakur (Mohan Joshi) decides to take Dil there for her heart surgery. Here Dil meets Jeet (Jaz) and falls in love with him. After she gets cured she returns back to India with her fiancée Abhay.

Jeet is in despair. His father Kamlesh Chug (Rajive Verma) unable to see the pain of his son sends him to India to unite with his love. Jeet feels that he can get Dil only if he breaks her engagement by provoking Sharad Babu. But by the time his plan can take shape Abhay finds out about the affair. He cannot let this happen and hurt his self-esteem. In India Jeet meets his mother and also learns that Suraj Thakur assassinated his real father. Fearing for his life his mother tells him to forget Dil and the idea of uniting with her. Jeet feels that he is on the verge of losing his love if he complies his mother’s order. He has no other choice. But the story takes a turn and he marries Dil at last.

The screenplay and the romance of the pair have no force and this drowns the film. There is no excitement offered to the viewers in any ways and the monotonous proceedings worsen the situations. Formulaic treatment and dull moments just tests your patience. The best part of the enterprise is the music by Nadeem-Shravan.

Director Lawrence D'Souza don’t put any effort to come out of the formulaic hangover. On his part the execution is also poor. The romance doesn’t kindle your hearts and the drama doesn’t have the potential to impress. However as a cinematographer he does justice.

Jaz Pandher and Gurleen Chopra fail to put life into the film and their effort just gets a miss with the uninspiring script. Jaz is presentable but needs to seriously work on his acting part. Gurleen is unimpressive overall. Mukesh Rishi is adequate. Johny Lever and Jaspal Bhatti fails to evoke comedy. Mohan Joshi and Alok Nath are okay.

With a weak script a film as such cannot go far. So there is no optimism laced with the business of the film. Below average in all regards.