Starring Darshan Kumaar and Piaa Bajpai in the lead roles, Mirza Juuliet is an unconventional kind of a love story which has a lot of drama and violence. The movie shows the story of two completely different individuals who have different lives. Juuliet, who believes in love without commitment, is going to marry a politician’s son who is a complete Casanova. Mirza is a police inspector who has nothing to do with love. Mirza and Juuliet meet each other in a bizarre circumstance and eventually fall in love without realizing the consequences. The characters are not afraid of talking about sex and Piaa Bajpai is basically a sexed-up verison of Parineeti Chopra from Ishqzaade. Darshan Kumaar on the other hand looks confused and this is probably his worst performance till date. The director Rajesh Ram Singh has created a clichéd love story which is extremely tiresome and has a tragic end. There’s a lot of mismanagement in Rajesh’s direction and in spite of the decent run-time it is difficult to sit through till the end. The music is awfully composed and all the songs are boring including the title track. Cinematography is beautifully done and the picturesque landscapes in few scenes will impress you. But it is the kind of movie which can be best avoided. It is not worth your time and money. Happy movie-less weekend guys!

Director Rajesh Ram Singh has done an original, sometimes vigorous, otherwise limp and sagging, take on the Romeo-Juliet/Mirza-Sahibaan sagas. He mixes and matches the two love legends with wild creative aspirations. Sometimes, the blend of the familiar and the unexplored is glaring in its mismatch. Nonetheless, the film is well-crafted. And it builds up to a thoughtful and thundering climax where Mirza and Juliet get their comeuppance. Mirza Juuliet is fun while it lasts. It has certain celerity in its narration and the cocky confidence of the kind that Kapil Sharma displays when he speaks English although he is not fluent in the language. The film is sharply written with characters that are real enough to look menacing and yet not quite the stuff the people in Avinash Das’s Anaarkali Of Aarah were made of. A bedrock of artifice underlines the attempts to forge a compelling Mirza-Juliet fusion. But the film’s characterisations and some of the performances are strong enough to withstand the lashes of fakery that make welters all over the narrative. Even the rustic songs are not interesting in any unique way. The loud colours, the flamboyant storytelling and characters that have no respect for the law of the land have all been seen before. This film is still fun to watch. Give it a shot.

It isn't the audience alone that's at the receiving end of the battering-ram that is Mirza Juuliet. Shakespeare, too, is merrily driven to the ground. The film foists the burden of an extra 'u' upon the fair name of the bard's most famous heroine (which, of course, is the least of its offences). It also proceeds to maul the character totally out of shape (and that's absolutely unforgiveable, but then what did we expect from a film that can't get its spellings right?).  Mirza Juuliet is the handiwork of Rajesh Ram Singh, who stirs up a superficial combination of Shakespearean tragedy and the hoary traditions of the Mirza-Sahiban love saga and makes an unmitigated hash of both. The film is peppered with trite inanities made much worse by miscast actors who are clearly at odds with their respective roles. The multiplicity of characters thrown arbitrarily into the pot yield no more than a meaningless, mindless rumpus. The only redeeming feature of Mirza Juuliet is Darshan Kumaar. Mirza Juuliet is an abomination, hardly the sort of vehicle an actor as good as him is likely to benefit from. What's amazing is that even in this mucky muddle, Darshan Kumaar manages to keep his head out of the sludge. Piaa Bajpai, who has a reasonably thriving career down South, overdoes the bubbly babe act, turning her character into an irksome caricature. Chandan Roy Sanyal, who definitely cannot be faulted here for lack of energy and enthusiasm, is saddled with a character that is a mixture of a clown, a villain and a whipping boy. The screenplay reduces him to a pathetic clod. Mirza Juuliet is a crass, clammy and cliched concoction that is best avoided. The single star isn't for the film. It's for Darshan Kumaar.