Leons Media Productions’ Aarpar (Marathi; UA) is a love story. Amar Randive (Lalit Prabhakar) and Prachi Dixit (Hruta Durgule) are college mates who are madly in love with one another. However, one day, Prachi gets intimate with a friend, Shamin (Manyu Doshi). This agitates Amar a lot, but he ultimately cools down. Amar once again loses his cool when Prachi tells him that Shamin had come to her house to meet her. Driven to extreme frustration, Amar goes to kill Shamin, but his car meets with an accident. Prachi decides to break free from Amar. Although Amar and Prachi are unable to forget their love for each other, they try hard. Amar even decides to marry Gauri (Janhavi Sawant). Do Amar and Gauri marry? Or does Prachi re-enter Amar’s life?
Gaurav Patki has penned a routine story which fails to engage the viewers. Shamin’s character seems to have been forced into the screenplay — also written by Gaurav Patki — for lack of another opposition, or so it seems. It is due to such contrived characters and situations that the drama doesn’t strike a chord with the audience. The drama also lacks emotions and comedy. Even romance is minimal. Consequently, the proceedings don’t even involve the viewers. Gaurav Patki’s dialogues are alright.
Lalit Prabhakar is good as Amar Randive. Hruta Durgule performs ably as Prachi Dixit. Veena Nair is okay as Prachi’s maternal aunt, Veena. Janhavi Sawant is so-so in the brief role of Gauri. Snehlata Vasaikar lends decent support as Amar’s sister, Archana. Madhav Abhyankar is so-so as Amar’s father. Manyu Doshi is average as Shamin. Suhita Thatte provides routine support as Amar’s mother. Suhas Shirsat passes muster as the police inspector. Nitesh Kamble (as Keshav Randive), Payal Gaikwad (as Payal Randive), Arun Patwardhan (as Gauri’s father), Shubhangi Padwal (as Gauri’s mother), Sunil Sukhthankar (as the psychiatrist), Ashish Mehta (as Ashish), Vaishnavi R.P. (as Divya) and Siddhesh Puri (as Saurabh) are passable.
Gaurav Patki’s direction is ordinary. Gulraj Singh’s music is fair. Lyrics (Manoj Yadav, Vaibhav Joshi, Jitendra Joshi, Dr. Ganesh Chandanshive and Swapnil Chavan) are alright. Song picturisations (by Pooja Kale) are okay. Saurabh Bhalerao’s background music should’ve been more impactful. Rahul Chauhan’s cinematography is decent. Amit Waghchaure’s production designing is of a fair standard. Faisal Mahadik’s editing should’ve been sharper.
On the whole, Aarpar is too routine to score at the ticket windows.
Released on 12-9-’25 at Plaza (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru PVR Inox Pictures. Publicity & opening: poor.