No matter how contrived and conventional they might get at times, madcap comedies like Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai have a way of trundling along no matter how frequent and imposing the roadblocks in its path are.

There are plenty of them here and they do get in the way of the film becoming the pure, old-fashioned laugh riot that it aspires to be.

The title is drawn from a song in David Dhawan's Biwi No 1 (1999), but Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai, which the veteran director has announced will be the final film of his long and eventful career, does not roll off the tongue as smoothly as a Hindi film number usually does.

Its rhythm is strictly of a sputtering fits-and-starts variety. The fits are rarely more than flashes - a funny line of dialogue (Farhad Samji) here or a mildly droll situation (screenplay: Yunus Sajawal) there. And the starts never quite translate into anything lasting even when they show some promise. So, you've got to make do with sporadic sparks.

Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai is a comedy about an accidental two-timer who is cornered into dealing with two expectant mothers who have no idea that the father of the two babies in their wombs is the same.

Romps of this nature assume various forms and succeed only when the lunacy on the screen does not degenerate into mere buffoonery. Not that it does in this film but its jabs at tickling the funny bone very rarely hit the right spots.

Source:Ndtv