Rising Sun Films, Kino Works and JA Entertainment’s Woh Bhi Din The is about a renowned photojournalist returning to his Alma Mater as a guest speaker.
Rahul (John Abraham) is invited by his college principal as a guest speaker. As soon as Rahul sees students, he goes down memory lane and remembers his college days.
Rahul (Rohit Saraf) is in Std. XII and is good friends with classmate Joy (Adarsh Gourav). Rahul is crazy about Shalini (Charu Bedi) who studies in the same college. But he has an affair with Milky (Sanjana Sanghi) who is a new student in the college. Rahul’s classmate, Kaizad (Prakhar Sharma), also loves Milky, leading to a fight between Rahul and Kaizad. One thing leads to another and finally, the friendship of Rahul and Joy breaks.
After some time, Rahul and Milky also drift apart because of an incident. Meanwhile, Dalu Mukhi (Zeishan Quadri), who leaks question papers to students for a price, becomes the reason for Rahul to be punished by the college principal. When one question paper is changed at the last minute, Rahul is the only one who fares well because he had turned over a new leaf. The other frustrated students beat up Rahul and break his hand because of which he loses a year in college. Anyway, Shalini comes to Rahul’s house to meet him and tells him that she’s aware of his love for her.
Cut to the present day. The college students ask photojournalist Rahul (John Abraham) who he ultimately married — Shalini or Milky.
Sajid Ali and Saurabh Swami have written a story which is quite random. Their screenplay is so-so. Some college portions are interesting but the question that comes to mind is: to what avail? Even the ending is so abrupt that it makes the viewers wonder what the writers and director wanted to convey after all. Sajid Ali’s dialogues are quite nice.
John Abraham, as Rahul, has a very tiny role and is alright. The role could have been essayed by Rohit Saraf himself. Rohit Saraf does well as the younger Rahul. Adarsh Gourav performs wonderfully in the role of Joy. Sanjana Sanghi is okay as Milky. Charu Bedi does an average job as Shalini. Zeishan Quadri lends ordinary support as Dalu Mukhi. Prakhar Sharma is so-so as Kaizad. Keval Arora (as Fr. Pius Coelho), Ashwin Mathew (as Alex Sir), Gaurav Parajuli (as Paritosh), Vivek Kumar (as Toppo), Ujjal Debnath (as Mishra), Avijot Singh (as Satpal), Chaitanya Bhushan (as Adil) and the others lend routine support.
Sajid Ali’s direction is fair but the fact remains that the film hardly entertains. It is also not clear, why the film was made! Joi Barua’s music is commonplace while his background score is ordinary. Irshad Kamil’s lyrics are nice. Jay I. Patel’s camerawork is of standard. Saikat Bose’s production designing is alright. Manan Sagar’s editing is fairly sharp.
On the whole, Woh Bhi Din The is too ordinary to make an impression on the audience.
Released on 29-3-’24 on Zee5.