Hari Om review

Baradwaj reviews Hari Om – “a rom-com for those who prefer their love stories with less treacle, more tartness”.

Then there’s Rajasthan – not the pretty riot of colours familiar to us from Paheli and Lamhe, but the harshly beautiful countryside from Reshma Aur Shera. Hari Om is, in a way, a road movie through Jaipur and Bikaner and Jaisalmer, and the easiest thing the director could have done is to cherry-pick the most photogenic locations to stage his scenes. He does a little of that, sure, but he also takes us through the mud houses and the dirt roads and the sleepy villages. The best thing about Hari Om is that it sells an India that simply is; not the India from the glossy brochures but the real India, our love affair with which goes on and on.