Anupama Chopra reviews Ek Din, the Hindi remake of the 2016 Thai film One Day, co-produced by Aamir Khan and Mansoor Khan under Aamir Khan Productions — 38 years after the duo debuted as actor and director with the classic romance Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. Directed by debutant Sunil Pandey and written by Sneha Desai and Spandan Mishra, the film stars Junaid Khan as Dinesh, a punctilious nerd in the IT department of a software company called Mycon, who has silently loved his colleague Meera since the day she walked into the office. Sai Pallavi, in her Hindi film debut, plays Meera, who develops transient global amnesia after an accident on an office trip to Japan — giving Dinesh exactly one day to make a memory that might last a lifetime.
Anupama unpacks why the film's lovely central idea — that even one day of love is worth treasuring and striving for — is undone by listless writing and direction. Ek Din asks for a suspension of disbelief that the storytelling can't earn, plodding along through clumsy detours and low-logic turns. The bright spark, she says, is Sai Pallavi — an actor without a trace of artificiality, all open-faced warmth and vulnerability — alongside the melancholy title track sung by Arijit Singh, made all the more aching by his announcement that he will no longer sing for films. A film about memories worth making, she concludes, should have been more memorable. Watch the full review for the THR India bottomline.
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