Childish, imbecilic and tinged with the kind of casual changing dynamics of a daily soap 'Hum Do Humare Do' makes you laugh at the most cliched things. With melodrama at the top of its list, this slack-jawed comedy wants its audience to believe that it is about a 'modern day' family which is nothing but grounded, however, it barely achieves it. With a fine cast including names like Paresh Rawal, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajkummar Rao and Kriti Sanon the makers could have probably picked up a more coherent structure, but the bare minimum twitch in the plot is honestly just desultory.

A layer of surface gloss, a dose of good humour along with a few clichs cling to Hum Do Hamare Do, a breezy rom-com just out on Disney+Hotstar. If only did the film not get into the predictable zone which raises some serious questions, it would have turned out to be more substantial than just mildly entertaining.

In this new version of 'family planning', an industrious orphan Dhruv (Rajkummar Rao) is keen to 'adopt' parents so that his marriage with a cutesy blogger Anya (Kriti Sanon) could materialise. The candidates (Paresh Rawal and Ratna Pathak Shah) he chooses, share an amorous past and the situation allows the sparks to fly all over again.

Only recently Aparshakti Khurana played a lead in a movie that felt like a public service announcement for population control and safe sex. The man is back to his best friend duties as Rajkummar Rao's BFF to the rescue in Hum Do Hamare Do. The title, inspired from the catchy family planning slogan of the 1970s, does not centre around condoms like the aforementioned Helmet.

HUM DO HAMARE DO is the story of a man who gets fake parents to impress the girl he loves. Dhruv Shikhar (Rajkummar Rao) is an orphan who used to work in the dhaba run by Purshottam Mishra (Paresh Rawal) as a child. One day, he runs away and studies hard. He then emerges as a successful entrepreneur and the creator of a VR app called Jaadugar.

Are blood relations so important in the institution of marriage? Or are you allowed to create your own family in this society? Hum Do Hamare Do, which was released on Disney+Hotstar today, October 29, is the perfect family drama to answer that question. The Rajkummar Rao and Kriti Sanon-starrer has loads of funny moments, however, the ending seems very unoriginal. The best thing about the film is the acting, and not the script. Without giving away the story, here's our review of Hum Do Hamare Do.

"Hum do hamare do" generally refers to a couple and their two kids, who help complete a family. However, in the movie Hum Do Hamare Do, the hero is in dire need of parents to have a happily ever after. Dhruv (Rajkummar Rao) is a self-made man. An entrepreneur, he has created his own app and deals in Virtual Reality technology. During the launch party of his app he meets a blogger, Anya Mishra (Kriti Sanon).

As the title suggests it is about a family. Not brought together by blood but situation. When the love of his life (Anya, Kriti) tells Dhruv (Rajkummar) that she wants to marry a guy who has a family and adopts a pet, he takes the adoption part too seriously. An orphan by birth, he adopts parents and the comedy of errors begins.

Hum Do Hamare Do should have been a lot more fun. A movie about an orphan who pretends to have parents in order to marry his sweetheart could have been the stuff of rip-roaring farce. Instead, director Abhishek Jain opts for the occasional laugh and the frequent lump in the throat.

It takes a moment to orient yourself heart-first towards Hum Do Hamare Do. This is because none of the initial scenes stick, their drama feels diffuse. There is a lazy, faux conversational quality to the moment - THE moment - when the hero, Dhruv (Rajkummar Rao), and the heroine, Anya (Kriti Sanon) first meet, first lock eyes, first speak, first kiss. Are they falling in love or loitering around a generic feeling?

Despite not starting on a good note, a chance meeting between entrepreneur Dhruv Shikhar and blogger Anya Mehra at the launch of his virtual reality app leads to another and soon they fall in love with each other. However, her wish of getting married to someone with a 'sweet family and a cute doggy' sends him on the quest to fight the right parents.

A patchy script, unimaginative direction and inconsistent performances queer the pitch for Hum Do Hamare Do. A profligate dramedy that fritters away the advantages of an admittedly unusual plot, all its calculations go amiss. Nothing that it proffers, no matter how harmless and well-meaning it might seem, delivers a rounded sum that makes sense.

Are blood ties the only metric to define a family? Can we create our own families? This premise is not madly original, but can safely be used as the organising principle of a new family drama, because families will never go out of vogue. Or will they? Dhruv (Rajkummar Rao) is an orphan. Anya (Kriti Sanon) is mad about families and doggies, in that order.