Shauna Gautam’s ‘Nadaaniyan’ is a sweet, sensitive romance that hits some very real notes amidst the gloss
- Trinity Auditorium
- Mar 7
- 1 min read
The film’s success is in blending teen angst into the glossy format of a ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’. Ibrahim Ali Khan makes a not-bad debut, while Khushi Kapoor really nails her part. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
A few minutes into Nadaaniyaan, I felt this was not going to be my kind of movie. I have nothing against glossy productions with good-looking people, but there was a strain of self-consciousness that kept putting me off: it looked like the film was trying to say “I am a woke version of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”. Khushi Kapoor, who’s becoming a really confident actor, plays a super-rich schoolgoer named Pia. She acknowledges that she is the poster girl of privilege and entitlement, whose classmates are pampered kids whose therapy bills are greater than their sky-high fees. A break means flying to Europe, and when a friend turns up late, Pia complains that her highlight is losing its glow. Archana Puran Singh appears as the accented principal who gets her slang and acronyms wrong. In her book, WTF means…. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Watching her repeat her OTT (as in, ‘over the top’) attitude from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I thought this was going to be an OTT (as in, Netflix) update of that earlier movie.
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