Praful is an NRI who lives in America and works as housekeeping staff in a hotel. America is known as land of the free and the home of the brave, but she still lives with her parents so how free and brave can she really be? Especially when she's a 30-year-old divorcée? Praful's frustration comes across as real and believable. It's not overly sentimentalized but you can feel it under your skin, nevertheless. Kangana did an good job as a Gujrati immigrant women but the script, however, doesn't match up...also it doesn't help that the movie run time is like 4 hours. First half is somewhat enjoyable but all that is ruined by the pace of the movie in the second half, the writing is weak and the direction is not so convincing, knowing that this movie is coming from an director like Hansal Mehta who has directed movies like Shahid and Citylights, looks like he has missed the mark this time.
The story is inspired from the life of Sandeep Kaur, a Punjabi Indian woman who robbed banks in the US to support her expensive lifestyle. But Simran doesn't take this devolution seriously enough. In its determination to keep the proceedings light, the plot ends up making things look too easy and convenient. I did take guilty pleasure from the car chase towards the end that had the FBI look like incompetent clowns though. Hollywood has made them look too good for ages. When it comes to romance, there's a bit of it with a Mr Nice Guy who turns up to rescue Praful from her difficult circumstances, while their relationship is sweet though, it becomes an unnecessary distraction after a point. The dude is just too nice, put him in a ghagra and he'd be a 90s heroine. The other characters in the film are all one note and don't really make an impression.
If you're a Kangana fan, you can forgive the film for its flaws if only to see 'Simran' running to catch a metaphorical train...not for a happy ending with a man, but for a beginning for herself. If you're going to watch this movie thinking the experience would be like Queen and Tanu weds Manu then prepare to be heavily disappointed cause in reality, it's far from it and just OK at best.
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