Randeep Hooda plays a brooding street fighter who falls for a sightless Jenny, played by Kajal Agarwal-Photo: Special arrangement Banalities abound in this pedestrian romantic tale of a street fighter and a blind girl Randeep Hooda is getting into the habit of trying to stretch himself to the utmost as an actor. Unfortunately, in films that don’t quite deserve it. No wonder the effort shows, and how. After getting emaciated in Sarbjit , Hooda breaks his lovely nose and disfigures his pretty face in Do Lafzon Ki Kahani . But, instead of gushing over his performance, you end up wondering: why the hell should he be trying so hard? In the second South Korean remake of the week – this one is based on a 2011 film, Always – you have Hooda play the brooding street fighter Sooraj, who is perennially bashing and getting bashed, giving and receiving blows, breaking bones, gushing blood. All of it is far from India, in Kuala Lumpur.
There he bumps into a sightless Jenny (Kajal Agarwal) who, in the time-honoured tradition of blind girls in Hindi films, has huge, round, beautiful, unblemished eyes, much like Kajol in Fanaa or Rameshwari in Sunayana . She has a father who looks Malay and a mother we see in a haze and are unable to figure out the nationality. But Jenny is quite a sanskari girl, obsessed with “desis” to the extent that she “watches” Indian TV serials and mopes along fetchingly.
