Chand Mera Dil movie review: The roaring 20s!

lsquoChand Mera DilrsquoDir Vivek SoniActors Ananya Panday LakshyaRating 355Lakshya luck I donrsquot refer here to the meaning of the said name Which is aimambition alrightBut just how the lead actor of this film Lakshya has had an immensely lucky streak with three backtoback pieces of content so separate in genre while wholly defining eachAs in Kill action 2024 The Bads of Bollywood satirecomedydrama 2025 and indeed Chand Mera Dil CMD Which is as gooey oldsoul a young romance as yoursquore likely to get in 2026Ananya Panday plays Chand for Chandni opposite Lakshya Shersquos obviously been around in the movies for longer mdash having seen off several leading men including Vijay Deverakonda Liger 2022In fact watching the promo of CMD whenever I first did mdash cut in the way that it was mdash I felt maybe it was merely a version of Vijayrsquos iconic Arjun Reddy 2017 to suit the subsequent template of poisonous machismo that audiences supposedly prefer for their cinematic tastesThought Irsquod need CBD to sit through CMD Couldnrsquot be further from the trailertruth Itrsquos an inherently soft feminist film about a young couple who take the unlikelyextra step of having a child getting married while still in college that is at an engineering school in HyderabadThe feel of the setting both the city and the campus is fairly complete The drama is stagedshot with care The script itself reads in your head like some kinda lived experience yet written like a saga of sortsAnd both the lead actors on whose chemistry the story is naturally hinged look primed for their part emotionally present viscerally connected somewhatThe only possible peeve is how untested faces give such rolesstories fresher wings to fly Think Saiyaara 2025 superhit from the same genreThat said Irsquod assume there are enough boxes ticked to personally recommend an experience mdash the boxoffice is a separate barometer altogetherCMD starts off with what seems like the end of the filmrsquos story Itrsquos not Unlike Lakshya mdash this time I refer to the 2004 film by the same nameThe lead couple arenrsquot together anymore What follows is a patiently reconstructed romance between two students Lakshya Ananya travelling with baggage in excess of the usual burdens of youthThe picture seemed to me more about the moments than the plot per se And thatrsquos why the long extended passages of confusion testing patience didnrsquot bother me so muchConsider how the filmmakers deliver the lsquodelivery scenersquo in a maternity ward mdash making it so sensitively about life itself Or the intense drama of domestic discord within the confines of a home with vibes of Marriage Story 2019 or Scenes from a Marriage 2021 no lessYoursquore seamlessly moved as you somehow move along Thatrsquos what good movies attempt to doCMD is writtendirected by Vivek Soni who debuted with Meenakshi Sundareshwar 2021 Netflix mdash a pretty quirky cornycutesy underrated romantic flick in Hindi so lovingly set in the unlikely Madurai The world looked charming beyond the usual North Indian smalltown grime Certain moments stayed with youAap Jaisa Koi 2025 Netflix felt a lirsquol fake in comparison CMD is Vivekrsquos first theatrical release mdash and suitably so with passions slightly more heightened even if the conclusion could be a clicheacuteAnd yet you wonder mdash whatrsquos it about being in your roaring 20s that separates it from every decade after Sure when yoursquore young itrsquos so much easier to move on mdash legendary love stories inevitably belong to those who donrsquotTherersquos so much chatter about the fickleness of being Gen Z But why would this generation raised online be different from any otherTherersquos hardly anything on the Internet that makes us less expressive even as the choices are infinite That rush of young blood remains as true to love as warBe that as it may in any relationship itrsquos always one person of the two who actually switches off checks out and breaks up mdash egos being fragile with bothIrsquom thinking these thoughts stepping out of the press show of CMD produced by Karan Joharrsquos Dharma mdash thatrsquos also terribly dished out romantic duds lately Nadaaniyan Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu MeriItrsquos a rare preview screening for a film produced byDharma ever since they publicly chose against hosting them The last one perhaps was for Homebound 2025 CMDrsquos equally sorted in its own rightgenre even if not worldclassYUCK WHATEVER GOOD SUPER AWESOME