Tulip Entertainment, Divisa Entertainment, Merry Go Round Studios and Creative Strokes Group’s Heer Express (UA) is a family drama.
Heer (Divita Juneja) lives with her maternal uncles (Gulshan Grover and Sanjay Mishra). She is an excellent cook and runs a restaurant alongwith her uncles. The restaurant was started by her mother, Preeto (Priya Bhardwaj), who is no more. Heer gets a lucrative offer to carry forward her mother’s legacy and continue the restaurant business in her mother’s name, in London too. Heer arrives in London where she meets a young man, Rohan Ahuja (Prit Kamani), whom she falls in love with. She also meets TJ (Ashutosh Rana) who is the husband of Olivia (Sarah Lockett), the businesswoman who had brought Heer to London. Heer soon realises that TJ is unhappy with his two children, Sasha (Charlotte Longstaffe) and Mickey (Benji Charles). But even more disturbing than this is the past of TJ. How is Heer connected with TJ’s past?
Sanjay Grover’s story is very ordinary and is a mixture of what one has seen in several earlier films. The story does not even pretend to offer anything new or fresh. Divyanshu Rawat’s screenplay, with additional screenplay by Pavan Balagam, is so hackneyed that it simply does not create an impact. Except for the last part of the drama, when some emotions between father and daughter come to the fore, the entire screenplay is predictable and often weak too. The romantic track is dull. Also, the drama is so uninspiring that it appears to be dragging even though it is fairly fast-moving. Divyanshu Rawat’s dialogues and Pavan Balagam’s additional dialogues are ordinary.
Divita Juneja makes an average debut as Heer. She looks alright and acts naturally but there’s nothing extraordinary about her. Prit Kamani is okay as Rohan Ahuja, in a role that gives him limited scope. Ashutosh Rana is fair as TJ. Gulshan Grover lends average support as Heer’s maternal uncle. Sanjay Mishra is ordinary as Heer’s other maternal uncle. His track of cosying up to women is neither funny nor engaging. Meghna Malik is earnest as Olivia’s business associate, but she doesn’t get any worthwhile scenes to perform. Sarah Lockett has her moments as Olivia. Charlotte Longstaffe (as Sasha), Benji Charles (as Mickey), Leyton Benta (as Marco) and Priya Bhardwaj (as Preeto) provide routine support. Others are passable.
Umesh Shukla’s direction is ordinary. He has handled the emotional scenes quite well. Music (Tanishk Bagchi, Avvy Sra, Jasbir Jassi, Jerry Singh, Sakaar Singh) is okay. The Ve Ranjhana song (composed by Avvy Sra, and written by Harman Jeet) is the best number. Lyrics (Shloke Lal, Harman Jeet, Babu Singh Maan) are appropriate. Song picturisations (by Aadil Shaikh and Vipin) are average. Gulraj Singh’s background music ought to have been better. Sameer Arya’s cinematography is quite nice. Sunil Rodrigues and Ian Van Temperley’s action and stunt scenes are functional. Sidhant Malhotra’s production designing, and Digvijay Singh’s art direction are proper. Mayur Hardas’ editing is fair.
On the whole, Heer Express is a dull fare which will turn out to be a non-starter.
Released on 12-9-’25 at Inox (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru PEN Marudhar Cine Entertainment. Publicity & opening: weak. …….Also released all over. Opening was poor everywhere.
