Haseen Dillruba Movie Review: Vikrant Massey is the beholder of this haseen Taapsee Pannu film

This taut Netflix murder-thriller-meets-love story is not without flaws. But Vikrant Massey and Taapsee Pannu make it work.

Back in 2016, Shutu won us over with his piercing gaze and a twinkle in his eyes that didn't speak of rainbows, but of dark clouds of depression. Those eyes belonged to Vikrant Massey, and Shutu belonged to A Death In The Gunj, a world painted in broad and fine strokes of gloom and despair by Konkona Sensharma. In Vinil Mathew's Haseen Dillruba, we spotted those eyes in Vikrant once again. For dillruba's husn lies in the eyes of the beholder - those very eyes. Haseen Dillruba, now streaming on Netflix, is headlined by Taapsee Pannu. Like her character, named Rani, she is the queen of the film. She's a Delhi-bred girl who describes herself as the 'full package' to her newlywed seedha-saadha husband, Vikrant's Rishab AKA Rishu. But Jwalapur, the place she's now forced to move to after marriage, isn't worthy of her. She is still intrigued by this 'chhota sheher' - small town - simply because her favourite author Dinesh Pandit writes about bade qatal (big murders) in such chhote sheher. But her intrigue reaches a premature end much like her husband Rishu on their first night together. "Koi jwala nahi bharakne wali Jwalapur mein (there are going to be no fireworks in Jwalapur)," she declares to her mother and maasi over the phone, the two women in her life dedicated to teaching her tricks to seduce her husband.