Ishq Vishk Rebound

''Ishq Vishk Rebound'' is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nipun Dharmadhikari and produced by Ramesh Taurani and Jaya Taurani under Tips Films. A spiritual sequel to the 2003 film '' Ishq Vishk'', it stars Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan (in her acting debut), Jibraan Khan and Naila Grrewal.

''Ishq Vishk Rebound'' was released in theatres on 21 June 2024 and received mixed reviews.

Plot

The story follows Raghav Pandit, an aspiring screenwriter working for Tips Films, is tasked with crafting a compelling romantic story. His boss pressures him to complete the script promptly, warning that failure to do so could jeopardize his position. Pressured by his boss to meet a looming deadline, he says that he is writing a film's story which draws inspiration from his own life. This premise sets the stage for Raghav to revisit the emotional journey he experienced over the past year with his closest friends.

The narrative then shifts to Raghav's hometown in Dehradun, where he shared a close bond with his childhood friends, Sanya and Sahir. The trio had been inseparable through their school years. As they transition into adulthood when they were in college, the dynamics among them evolve. Sanya and Sahir, once platonic companions, embark on a romantic relationship. Raghav also entered into a relationship with Riya Mathur, a socially conscious college student, and a green activist.

Although Raghav is with Riya, much of his emotional energy is consumed by Sanya and Sahir's volatile relationship. Constantly caught between their fights, he acts as a mediator between them—often at the cost of his own romantic happiness. One day when Riya and Raghav began to kiss, he gets a call from Sanya, that she's breaking up with Sahir. Riya grows frustrated with Raghav’s emotional unavailability and eventually breaks up with him, accusing him of being more invested in his friends than in their relationship.

After this Raghav went to Sanya, to resolve Sanya and Sahir's relationship. But Sanya explains him that her and Sahir's relationship felled apart, driven by unresolved differences and pressure from Sahir’s conservative family and Raghav also can't make them up this time. Sahir returns all gifts given to him by Sanya through Raghav. Sanya also asks Raghav to bring him back that dog which she gifted to Sahir, when they were in relationship. Nevertheless, Raghav goes to Sahir's home and steals the dog and give it back to Sanya. Sanya then spontaneously kisses Raghav, much to confusion and anxiety of Raghav as this would distort their relationship as friends and even Sanya was girlfriend of his best friend Sahir.

A day after, Sanya calls Raghav, but he didn't receive her call as he was anxious to talk to her. Since, he was feeling guilty, he decided to tell the truth to Sahir, but he chose not to tell anything about the incident to Sahir, as he thinks about how he will react to it. Sahir calls Raghav to meet him the following day. Raghav thought that Sahir got to know about his and Sanya's kiss, but Sahir confronted him that he got to know through CCTV cameras of his house, and better he should not come to his house as Sahir's family had got to know that it was Raghav who stole the dog from his house as over a period of time they had developed an attachment with the dog. After hearing this, Raghav breathed a sigh of relief that at least Sahir didn't find out about his and Sanya's kiss. Sahir gives him a ticket of a trip originally planned for him and Sanya. When Raghav goes to Sanya, to return the ticket, she invites Raghav to the trip. During the journey, Raghav and Sanya grow closer, sharing their vulnerabilities and seeking solace in each other's company. Their bond culminates in a spontaneous kiss, marking the beginning of a rebound relationship. One night, on the remote location where they were staying, catches fire and the group in order to save themselves leaves, but mistakenly leaves Raghav alone there. When Raghav gets to know about this, he got so scared that he began to think he'll die. He nervously sends a voice message to Riya that he still loves her. But when Sanya realizes that Raghav is left behind, she comes back to save him and eventually hugs him and also propose to him. Raghav who had also started harboring feelings for Sanya during their vacations, accepts her proposal and kiss her.

After they came back from their trip, Sanya plans a special date with Raghav, but Sahir also comes to Sanya's home with Raghav much to her disappointment. Sahir invites Sanya and his mother to his sister's wedding. Still Sanya went with Raghav on their date, where they spent good time together. Now when they were shopping for Sahir's sister's wedding, Sanya remembers some urgent work and went and asks Raghav to pay the bill. But when his card declines, Riya comes there and pay his bill. From their conversation, Raghav gets to know that Riya still loves her as she was unable to move on from him. Sanya calls Raghav and asks him to tell the truth about their relationship to Sahir as he is their best friend. Raghav says that he'll surely tell everything to Sahir on his sister's sangeet ceremony.

At Sahir's sister's sangeet ceremony, Raghav still feels anxious about telling the truth to Sahir. Before Raghav can say anything, Sahir says that he still harbors feelings for Sanya and still loves her. When they all were dancing, Sahir eventually tries to kiss Sanya, and out of protest she pushes him away, and he fell on the ground. She tells the truth to Sahir about her and Raghav's relationship. Sahir becomes infuriated at Raghav for hiding the truth form him. Riya also confronts Raghav that if he was already in a relationship with Sanya, then why he sent voice message to her. Raghav becomes emotionally furious after listening to their allegations on him, and confronted Sahir and told him that he was the one who is always sandwiched between the complex relationship of Sanya and Sahir, the aftermath of which, led to his own breakup with Riya, and they even do not cared about his breakup. He also confronted Riya and told him that she had end her relationship with him, earlier and even not talked him about the incident in which he was not at fault. Raghav told everyone that their friendship was going smooth, but it has been destroyed all because of love and relationships. And now he don't want either love or friendship. Confused and emotionally exhausted, Raghav decides to distance himself from everyone and moves to Mumbai to focus on his writing.

The movie now shifts to present where in Mumbai, where Raghav throws himself into finishing the screenplay based on his tangled relationships. His boss insists the story must have a satisfying ending, warning that without it, the film will flop. He struggles with the ending, still unsure how to bring closure to the story—or his real-life emotions. He hadn't had any contact with his friends for the past one year and even don't what was going in the life of Sanya, Sahir and Riya. Confused, he decides to end the movie's story where Raghav will ask Riya for forgiveness and will tell her that he still loves her. When he tells the story's ending to his boss, she liked it and the shooting for the movie starts.

One day, Sahir's sister calls Raghav and informs him about Sahir's accident. Hearing of Sahir's accident, Raghav immediately comes back to Dehradun to meet him, where he learns that Sahir has not met any accident, but he has been beaten up violently by his father, only because he couldn't fulfill his dream of joining the Indian Army. Raghav confronts Sahir's dad about this, where Sahir's dad began to beat Raghav. Seeing this, Sahir infuriated, intervenes and confronts his father for the first time ever in life and stop his dad and tell him that he can't beat his friend like that and moreover he will not bear any torture inflicted by his dad upon him in future. Saying this, he left the place with Raghav. Sahir apologizes for all what happened and again befriends him. Sahir also prompts him to reconnect with Sanya, and when they visit her, she is emotionally unsettled by his sudden reappearance. She had not expected to see him again after such a long absence and is unsure of her feelings. She said they are good as friends, and she doesn't want any problem in her life because of any relationship and shuts the door. From outside, Raghav told her, that he was confused earlier about whether he was doing right or wrong. But now he is clear that he only loves Sanya. Saying this, Raghav returns back to Mumbai to work on the upcoming film whose story was written by him.

On the last day of shooting of the film, Raghav receives a call from Sahir, and also he gets to know that now Sahir works in Sanya's mother café having embraced a simpler, more grounded life. Raghav asks him about Sanya, to which Sahir informed Raghav that Sanya had gone out somewhere. Upon hearing this, Raghav suspects that Sanya might not want to speak with him, and that Sahir is merely making an excuse on her behalf. Just then, Sanya appears before Raghav. In truth, Sanya still loved Raghav and was unable to live without him. Seeing her, Raghav is overjoyed and finally reunites with his true love. As they are about to leave together, Sanya discovers that in the script of the film Raghav had written, he had concluded the story with his past relationship with Riya. Amused by this revelation, Sanya begins to laugh — and with that heartfelt moment, the movie draws to a close.

Cast

* Rohit Saraf as Raghav Pandit
* Pashmina Roshan as Sanya Malhotra
* Jibraan Khan as Sahir Singh Rajput
* Naila Grrewal as Riya Mathur
* Akarsh Khurana as Raghav's father
* Shilpa Vishal Shetty as Raghav's mother
* Supriya Pilgaonkar as Sanya's mother
* Shataf Figar as Sahir's father
* Anita Kulkarni as Sahir's mother
* Kusha Kapila as a film producer
* Adhaar Khurana as a film director
* Jaanam Raaj as Priya
* Sheeba Chaddha in a cameo appearance

Production

Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan, Jibraan Khan and Naila Grrewal were cast as the leads. The film marks Khan and Roshan's screen debut. The
principal photography commenced in June 2022 and wrapped first schedule in July 2022. The film was mostly shot on location in Mumbai and Dehradun.

Music

The music of the film is composed by Rochak Kohli, Badshah and Hiten. Lyrics are written by Gurpreet Saini, Kumaar, Gautam G Sharma and Badshah.

The first single, "Ishq Vishk Pyaar Vyaar", was recreated from the title track in the 2003 prequel, '' Ishq Vishk'', which was sung by Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik and written by Sameer Anjaan. The second single, "Chot Dil Pe Lagi", was recreated from the 2003 prequel, which was sung by Alisha Chinai, Kumar Sanu, and written by Sameer Anjaan. The fourth single, "Gore Gore Mukhde Pe", was recreated from the 1994 film, '' Suhaag'', which was sung by Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, and written by Sameer Anjaan.

Reception

A critic for ''Bollywood Hungama'' rated the film 2 stars out of 5 and wrote "''Ishq Vishk Rebound'' has youthful appeal but it suffers due to a weak second half."

Devesh Sharma of ''Filmfare'' gave the film two and a half out of five stars and wrote, "''Ishq Vishk Rebound'' starts off as being a frothy romantic comedy but then loses its fizz midway. Watch it if you have a yen for rom coms and have to catch every such outing…"

Bhavna Agarwal of ''India Today'' gave the film two and a half out of five stars and wrote, "The major problem with the film is not that it makes rebound seem 'frivolous'. But, it makes a half-hearted attempt or resorts to tokenism to entertain. It is funny and cheesy, yes! But all of this without a soul, feels like a wasted opportunity."

Saibal Chatterjee of ''NDTV'' gave the film two and a half out of five stars and wrote, "The best way to approach ''Ishq Vishk Rebound'' as a viewer is not to expect the world from it. At least parts of it might then pleasantly surprise you."

Pratikshya Mishra of ''The Quint'' wrote, "''Ishq Vishk Rebound'' is not a horrible movie – it has some of its better moments. There are times when the dialogues get an unexpected laugh out of you even as they remind you how inconsistent the writing has been."

Mayur Sanap of ''Rediff.com'' rated 1.5/5 stars and notes "''Ishq Vishk Rebound'' is a drab romance and dull comedy that even the intended teen audience might have a hard time keeping up with."

Box office

The Film was Big Flop.The film collected on its first day with a weekend total of with a lifetime collection of only. The small box office collection is also attributed to the fact that the film was released in only around 700-800 theatres nationwide.

References

External links

*
*

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ishq Vishk Rebound
2024 films
2020s Hindi-language films
Indian coming-of-age films
Indian sequel films
2024 romantic comedy-drama films
Indian romantic comedy-drama films
Films shot in Mumbai
Films shot in Dehradun
Films about Bollywood
Films set in Mumbai
Films set in Dehradun
Films about travel
Films about screenwriters
Films set in Uttarakhand