Film

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Name: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Released: 2013
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Aditya Roy Kapur, Kalki Koechlin, Kunaal Roy Kapur

Romantic comedy
Light-hearted

A sweeping romantic comedy about two people who fall for each other on a mountain trek but are fundamentally incompatible: she's cautious and grounded, he's restless and chasing experience. When they reunite years later, the question isn't whether they still love each other—it's whether either has changed enough to make it work. Visually gorgeous, emotionally generous, funny without trying too hard.

TMDb rating

3.6

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like a romance carried by friendship, travel and messy grown-up restlessness, where the jokes and the ache often arrive in the same scene.

Skip it if you find a two-and-a-half-hour run hard to sit through, or the loud group energy of the friends wears you down before the love story settles in.

What it asks of you: Settle in for a long, leisurely stretch of hanging out, with its emotional turns arriving slowly and rarely hurried; give it an evening and your full attention.

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