Ishq Vishk (2003)

The best part about this movie was the line- "Pyaar aur pimple kabhi nahi chhupte" (love and pimples can never be hidden). And that's pretty much. The story was infuriatingly bad, and just kept getting worse. On the surface it looks like a harmless college rom-com from the early 00s, back when India's economic liberalisation had just begun to spread its wings fully- but dig a little deeper, and it's just another karwa chauth propaganda film wrapped in fancy wrapping paper from Archie's. 

I was only thankful that this was not one of the Shahid films I grew up watching a lot (Jab We Met supremacy ONLY) because it truly has the potential to screw your life forever. No, Payal, DO NOT ASK HIM IF HE'S OKAY HE TRIED TO MOLEST YOU AND WAS LATER SHAMELESS ABOUT IT IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE. LITERAL BULLIES WERE KINDER TO YOU THAN HIM, WAKE THE FUCK UP. This self-destructive behaviour reminded me a lot of certain friends, and friends of friends, etc. because we clearly are nowhere close to the universal adoption of the basic principle THAT IF SOMEONE TREATS YOU LIKE DIRT, THEY ARE NOT FUCKING WORTH HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH. FFS. 

In conclusion, nothing sums up this movie better than the title of one of the most iconic songs from its soundtrack- "chot dil pe lagi" (the wound was on my heart) because this truly did hurt whatever bit of my crush on Shahid that had been revived thanks to Haider and Milenge Milenge. 

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