Satyaprem Ki Katha Movie Review: Kartik Aaryan Stands Out As 'The Perfect Man' For Kiara Advani In This Emotionally-Flawed Love Story

Satyaprem Ki Katha Review: 'Satyaprem Ki Katha' is the titular story of Satyaprem, essayed by Kartik Aaryan, and Katha, portrayed by Kiara Advani, respectively. Under interesting circumstances, the two become a couple and eventually after a long journey of patience and understanding, fall in love with each other.

Plot

Kartik Aaryan portrays the role of Satyaprem, a loser with a pure heart, and Kiara Advani as Katha, a girl way out of his league. The two come together after marriage. Katha carries the weight of a secret which gets the support of Satyaprem, who wins her over with his honesty and emotions. Letting go of her secret and making it her strength forms the crux of the story.

Review

Kartik Aaryan appears as the 'man of dreams' for any girl in this film, where he can be seen living his frustrated yet simple life and waiting eagerly to get married. Eventually, he faces success in finding his 'dream girl', but it brings tons of twists and heartbreaks, where Kartik Aaryan's positive and supportive character wins you over.

The film will hit you differently in the best possible manner, as Kartik Aaryan's character depicts a decent Gujarati boy who believes in old school love, but has a modern-age mentality. It is a throwback to the love stories we witnessed back in the 80s mixed with a much-discussed societal issues and has a perfect message in it.

With a brilliant idea of bringing in a modern-age societal situation with a love story, that is often experienced by the youth today, the lead actors of the film have perfectly blended in with their characters and have done justice to their roles. With no cringe-worthy or cliche dialogues, the freshness in the script can be smelled after quite some time in Bollywood.

What Is Working For The Film

The film is purely marketed as another Bollywood love story and has done justice to it, and has also projected an important message for the society, making it more than just a simple love story. Talking about the issue of date rape which is highly common in today's modern dating world, the makers have perfectly understood the issue and have figured out a way to talk about it via taking an entertaining route. Thus, without spoiling or revealing the details, the film inspires one to fall in love with someone supportive and honest, where the story entertains one, but sensitively.

What Is Not

The first half of the film initially builds up the real story, however at a point before the interval, the film is dragged by Kartik Aaryan's character, where one won't sympathize with Katha as to keep her secret, she acts annoyed.

During this part, the makers could have bound a fresh and tighter script to flesh out the motives of the characters in a better format, however, they tried to again give Kartik Aaryan his 'overhyped' monologue from 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama', which is really getting old.

But thankfully, the second half becomes the saving grace of the film and takes a fast pace where the audience will witness the evolution of their relationship which is kept up-front and filled with understanding and abiding by Katha's struggle. Thus, full marks to Sameer Vidwans for not exaggerating the storyline and neither the characters and also for not inviting any melodrama.

Performances

The reunion of Kartik Aaryan and Kiara Advani after 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa' is worth the wait, as both the leads have given their best with exceptional comic timing, and in emotional scenes, Kartik Aaryan has once again proved his mettle. The actor thankfully has kept aside his touch of carrying an overacting attitude in his roles but has perfectly managed to keep the role simple and on point with a clear heart, providing justice to Satyaprem's character.

On the other hand, the 'it' girl of Bollywood, Kiara Advani is unveiling the knots of her talent with every release of her. Perfectly carrying the role of a Gujarati girl coming from a respectable upper-class family, her onscreen flirting moments to her emotional scenes will make your heart melt. The amount of seriousness her character required to deliver an important message which also needs the perfect blend of sensitivity and power will surely change her career graph.

The supporting cast is just too perfect including Supriya Pathak, Gajraj Rao, Shikha Talsania, and Siddharth Randeria have also done an impeccable job with their small roles, binding the whole family and film together.

Music

All the songs from the film are promising chartbusters where Tanishk Bagchi has delivered some amazing fresh songs and also has managed to bring love from Pakistan, by introducing the remix version of 'Pasoori' in the voice of Arijit Singh. From slow melodious Bollywood touch to loud Gujarati Garba songs, the playlist is perfect for party anthems as well as for a soothing vacation with your plus one.

Final Verdict

One of the best things about the film comes from all the characters maintaining and forming their Gujarati accent which does not look odd in the film. The film is a good attempt to bring out a 'brave' message in front of the audience which is wrapped inside a bright and promising love story mixed with the old and modern dating notions.

It tries to please everyone by delivering a modern-day touch to an 80s-type love story while carrying some beautiful and blasting music in the process which will make you feel excited and curious for the ending. Overall, the makers have managed to keep the script and the dialogues on point and simple, and have reached out to several touchpoints which were required to be heard in this modern age dating culture.

Director: Sameer Vidwaans

Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani, Gajraj Rao, Supriya Pathak Shah, Siddhrath Randeria, Shikha Talsania, Anuradha Patel, Rajpal Yadav