After giving us flops like ‘Aap Kaa Suroor’ (2007), ‘Karzzz’ (2008) and ‘The Xpose’ (2014), Himesh Reshammiya is back with his “bad acting”. He is a complete torture! The storytelling is illogical and is already finished till the time you understand what it is all about! And with the worst love making scene in the first 20 minutes itself, it is hard to imagine what you have to sit through for the rest! This film is a pain pre-interval, and post it, you have got comfortable with its ridiculous nature. All in all, anything could not have been worse than ‘Teraa Surror’! We must say that the entire team of this film should promise to never work together again! The movie doesn’t see any bright future at the Box Office.

Titled Teraa Surroor - A Lethal Love Story, this film is all about unconditional, unbound swag. Bad guy gets killed, he smiles. Bad guy kills someone, he smiles. Nobody kills anybody, they smile. Only Himesh doesn’t smile. That would make his jawline look less prominent. Teraa Surroor’s music is its biggest attraction, provided you’re a Himesh fan like me. The first half keeps featuring one song after another and you feel blessed. But then comes the interval, following which the movie turns into an illogical chase that ends nowhere. Even the movie’s glossy cinematography and sleek editing couldn’t be of much help. Himesh Reshammiya has tried hard, but it’s still not working for him. Farah Karimaee may get some films if looking good is the only criterion. Naseeruddin Shah is Naseeruddin Shah and Shekhar Kapur is Shekhar Kapur, absolutely undiluted. Teraa Surroor is indeed a lethal love story.

Himesh Reshammiya is a mopey gangster in this listless love story.  For all its intent to be a slick action flick, Teraa Surroor is desperately short on novelty and entertainment. This is another yarn of a hero on a rescue mission facing an enemy with vengeance on his mind. It is the sort of film  in which all the goons Raghu fights in Dublin are Indian and it is blatantly obvious that all the action sequences are shot in India with no attempt made to even disguise it. If anything Teraa Surroor of not keeping your girlfriend entertained and the perils of friending unknown people on Facebook.  Barring a few whistle-worthy scenes which amp up Reshammiya's quest to take himself seriously so much so that it borders on hilarious, there is nothing remotely engaging about this very listless love story. Kapur sums it up with his apt line: "I hate love stories."

Just one scene should suffice to sum up exactly how daft Teraa Surroor is. In what looks like a gaming zone for dummies, an Irish bigmouth ridicules Indians. Don’t find this sequence silly enough? Not to worry, Teraa Surroor has much more on offer. If you are the kind of filmgoer who squirms at such vacuous Bollywood-style bluster, you would be hard pressed to digest singer-musician Himesh Reshammiya’s glazed gunslinger act complete with vacuous one-liners.  Himesh holds on to a single expression all through the film. Whether he is dodging a bullet, shooting down gangsters or merely in the midst of a lovers’ tiff, he betrays no semblance of emotion. The lead actress, debutante Farah Karimaee, is the perfect foil for Himesh. She remains equally ‘unmoved’ by all the trouble that she lands in. The locations are beautiful and they are captured in all their glory by cinematographer Maneesh Chandra Bhatt. But Teraa Surroor gives the costume designer and stylist and the action director much more to do than anyone else in the crew. They lose no opportunity to go the whole hog.  Does Teraa Surroor have any redeeming feature at all? Well, the length is a bit of a relief. The film’s runtime is 15 minutes under two hours. So, it isn’t as patience-trying as it otherwise might have been.

Can anyone go through an entire film with a fixed expression? Himesh Reshammiya does a hence proven in ‘Teraa Surroor’ in which he is busily engaged on a twin project: trying to prise his lady love from a Dublin prison, and to uncover a mystery man who has evil designs on him and her. The focus stays firmly on Himesh, who remains blank-faced through it all, never cracking a single smile, not even when he is with his girl. All in tons of slo mo, alternating with dizzying camera angles. All drowned in loud background music.  One character says : “oh god it’s a mess”. An apt line.