Love Breakups Zindagi begins on a note of restlessness. Dialogues are stretched, situations are created and actors struggle with lengthy dialogues. For the first few reels Dia Mirza flutters her eyelashes, emits a sigh of pain and the tears are always ready to spill out. All because her boyfriend is committed to the syndrome of 'all work and no play'.
It takes the debut director Sahil Sangha almost half the film to establish the characters and their foibles, their trivial eccentricities. Maybe because he presumes the audience for his film is likely to be as dimwitted as his cardboard characters.
It isn't just the principle players who appear goofy and one-dimensional. The entire supporting cast is littered with nitwits who haven't been given something they could get their teeth into. Shabana Azmi appears for a couple of minutes and says something as trite as "meri independent beti ko meri yaad kaise aa gayi" (How come my independent daughter thought of her mother today?). Calling your mother in times of crisis…not exactly original.