14 Phere full movie review: Vikrant Massey, Kriti Kharbanda
14 Phere is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language social comedy–drama film directed by Devanshu Singh and produced by Zee Studios. The film stars Vikrant Massey and Kriti Kharbanda in the lead roles. The film premiered on 23 July 2021 on ZEE5.
14 Phere Cast
| Directed by | Devanshu Singh |
|---|---|
| Written by | Manoj Kalwani |
| Produced by | Zee Studios |
| Starring | Vikrant Massey Kriti Kharbanda |
| Cinematography | Riju Das |
| Edited by | Manan Sagar |
| Music by | Rajeev V Bhalla JAM8 |
| Production company |
Zee Studios |
| Distributed by | ZEE5 |
| Release date | 23 July 2021 |
| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Download 14 Phere official trailer
14 Phere Character
- Vikrant Massey as Sanjay Lal Singh
- Kriti Kharbanda as Aditi Karwasra
- Vinay Pathak
- Gauahar Khan as Zubina
- Jameel Khan as Amay
- Yamini Das as Sarla Lal Singh
- Vineet Kumar as Kanhaiya Lal Singh
- Priyanshu Singh as Chhotu Singh
- Manoj Bakshi as Banwari aka Mama ji
- Govind Pandey as Dharampal
Karwasra
- Mahesh Chandra Deva as Chhotu Man
- Sumit Suri as Vivek Karwasra
14 Phere, starring Vikrant Massey and Kriti Kharbanda in lead roles, started streaming on zee5 on Friday, July 23. The film is an uncommon mix of precise comic timings, wonderfully relatable desi sarcasm, catchy dialogues, and a fine display of acting talent that seems to have emerged straight out of Delhi’s theatre circuit. The film entertains, tickles your funny bones while attempting to comically reflect the nitty-gritty of inter-caste marriages in North India.
The 14 Phere film’s comical premise, as was shown in the trailer, is based around an inter-caste couple (Vikrant Massey and Kriti Kharbanda) uniquely choosing to travel the path of dual marriage in order to make their respective families believe the unfactual truth that the person they love is from the same caste and thus they both could be married up despite their conservative backgrounds. This turns out to be a comical rollercoaster as the reel and real collide with the reality of a not much accepted marriageable match in conservative households, that too the ones with baahubal (rowdiness).
watch online 14 phere Delhi’s theatre circuit is one of the vehicles of the film’s plot which drives it further into the hinterland that resists inter-caste marriages. Give it to the limitations created by shooting a film during a pandemic or something else, the film misses the opportunity to reflect the outdoor diversity of Delhi’s theatre culture which could have added to the comic subtlety of the plot. Yet, it’s a bus whose absence from the road of this film doesn’t affect the quality of its unique comical highway where one smoothly runs the vehicle of entertainment throughout the close to the two-hour duration of the film.
14 Phere Music || 14 Phere Soundtrack
The 14 Phere music of the film was composed by Rajeev V Bhalla and JAM8 while the lyrics were written by Rajeev V Bhalla, Pallavi Mahajan, Geet Sagar, and Shloke Lal.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Hum Dono Yun Mile” | Rajeev V Bhalla | Raajeev V Bhalla, Riya Duggal, Rashi Harmalkar | 3:36 |
| 2. | “Chamak” | Rajeev V Bhalla | Raajeev V Bhalla, Sharvi Yadav, Pinky Maidasani | 3:12 |
| 3. | “Ghodi Chadhke” | Pallavi Mahajan | Raajeev V Bhalla, Rekha Bhardwaj, Keka Ghoshal, Ravi Mishra | 3:19 |
| 4. | “Aag Ka Dariya” | Geet Sagar | Raajeev V Bhalla, Romy, Rajnigandha Shekhawat | 3:31 |
| 5. | “Hai Tu” | Geet Sagar | Raajeev V Bhalla, Himani Kapoor, Sarvpreet Singh | 5:15 |
| 6. | “Shor Sharaba” | Shloke Lal | Raajeev V Bhalla, Brijesh Shandilya, Rajnigandha Shekhawat, Shloke Lal | 3:19 |
| 7. | “Ram Sita” (Music by JAM8) | Shloke Lal | Rekha Bhardwaj | 5:34 |
Vikrant Massey as Sanjay is a sight to behold in the film whose navigation through love, weddings, fluid family dynamics, complemented with quintessential love for his mother is thoroughly enjoyable as a display of an optimal entertainment quotient. This is Massey’s second OTT release in less than a month (after Vinil Matthew’s ‘Haseen Dillruba’, streaming on Netflix). The sheer ease with which the actor perpetuates a similar level of passion for vastly different characters is worth a note. In ‘14 phere’, in spite of the comical settings of the scenes, Vikrant as Sanjay is able to contribute seriousness to the plot of the film while not being unfunny. That’s precisely the hallmark of excellent performance.
Kriti Kharbanda as Aditi gives fluid expressions and makes her character believable, credit some fine screenplay writing. Kriti and Vikrant switch the driving seats in the film as and when required. Just like their characters, the actors also complement each other in a way that one of them seems incomplete without the other. There is no if or but that whether Aditi and Sanjay will remain together. It’s how that remains the question. Aditi raises her hand and Sanjay answers the question like a straight-A student.
The scenes with Gauahar Khan as Zubina aka Delhi’s Meryl Streep are entertainingly funny and woefully accurate. As one of the symbols of the theatre circuit, credit director Devanshu Singh, Khan puts up a triad of acts and pulls each one of them distinctively well, displaying a brand of versatility not seen recently in the Hindi comedy films.
It’s never easy to make a comedy film believable due to its logical fallacies. Yet director Devanshu Singh, with a bunch of excellent actors, a long shelf life Rekha Bhardwaj-track and some comically precise dialogues, pulls off a thoughtful comedy that is unbelievably entertaining.
14 Phere, directed by Devanshu Singh, is streaming on zee5.
