Plain and enjoyable movie. Rajkummar Rao's acting skills were impressive. Bollywood movies like these are rare these days.

Along with laughter and joy, there were emotional scenes that pulled you in and made you think about the norms set by society on women and the struggles one faces to be true to oneself, your family, and friends. Such as the following quote: "That's how the society is. I don't believe in their norms, but we still have to live in this society". While the movie could have expanded a bit more on all those messages, everyone involved in making this did a good job of keeping it focused on characters with relatable but small settings. I also liked Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's (Director of Bareilly Ki Barfi) advice to Kriti Sanon on her role as Bitti Mishra: "My brief to her was only one thing. Just be yourself. And be as you are at home. How you stay? How you live? How you eat? So, little little things. She hardly made her hair. I told her if you have to go out and you just have to put a ponytail 'How would you do it?'. And she told me 'Like this'. That's exactly what we need to do with the film". If you ended up enjoying the movie, you may want to read the novel "The Ingredients of Love" by Nicolas Barreau which the movie is based on.

It was a plain and simple love story. Bollywood rarely makes movies like this. You would really like to watch it with your partner

This one just feels easy. Got most things right. Small town setup, simple story, nothing groundbreaking, but the way it flows, it works. The humor doesn’t try too hard, and most of it lands because it feels natural, not written for laughs. And then Rajkummar Rao shows up as Vidrohi Ji and just flips the film. That whole transformation, from that shy, almost invisible guy to… that version of him, it’s easily the best part. You can see him enjoying it, and it makes every scene better. It does get a lil bit predictable, towards the end, but the characters carry it through. You’re not watching for the plot anyway.

Oh Bollywood! Can you be more predictable? Almost all movies these days are so predictable. And cheesy.