Haseen Dillruba - A Dull Mishmash of Genres Crime is okay if you can do it cleverly enough
Vinil Mathew’s second film Haseen Dillruba shows that scriptwriter Kanika Dhillon and director Mathew could not quite make up their minds about the kind of film they wished to make. The indecision comes across in the final product, confusing the audience too.
The film opens with the beautiful Rani (Tapsee Pannu), the young housewife who is also the protagonist of the story, feeding stray dogs in the neighbourhood with pieces of meat. The house she lives in suddenly bursts into a terrible explosion, and there is a huge fire with a body inside completely scarred, with just the name ‘Rani’ seen tattooed on a severed arm.