Film Of The Year, For Students.

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Student Of The Year is one film having Karan Johar written all over. There is a college with bubbling and refreshing adolescent students clad in clothes of every great brand in existence, drama, love triangle and heavy emotional bonding.

Most of you may have guessed the story from the trailers- there is an university by the name of St. Teresa’s college filled with the creamy layer of India. Two friends, Rohan Nanda (Varand Dhawan) Abhimanyu Singh and (Siddarth Malhotra) enter it. Rohit is the charming rich spoilt brat and Abhimanyu is the middle class boy there on scholarship. Rohan is dating Shanaya (Aliya Bhatt) the prettiest chick on campus. Over a period of time they become friends and the “bromance” ensues. However, the hunger to achieve the student of the year award and them falling in love with the same girl makes things bitter.

The direction, as one should expect, is impeccable but with maybe too much of glamour and gloss than needed. Another flaw is that the seriousness of the student of the year competition doesn’t quite reach the audience as much as the director intended it to. Besides this, the movie is great fun. The audience targeted is teenagers. Do not take it too seriously; if you are going for having fun, you will get it.

The songs like “Ishq waala love”, “velle” and “disco deewane” have been around but some of them lack in good lyrics. Like a typical KJo film, the movie is filled with long song sequences and romantic scenes. The screenplay is excellent and everything seems grand, clean and perfect; another trademark of Karan Johar films.

The performance by the debutantes is really commendable. They could not have asked for a greater debut. The star cast is splendid with actors like Rishi Kapoor (Playing the gay dean Yoginder Vashisht) Ram Kapoor (Rohan’s father Ashok Nanda) Sana Sayeed (grown up Anjali from kuch kuch hota hai playing Tanya Israni) among others. In all, it is worth the ticket prices.

Rating: 3.5/5