Tadap (Movie review)

Love is one of the most complicated chemical reactions that takes place within the grey matter.

I recently got to watch Tadap (2022) the movie, the official Hindi remake of RX 100. The fun fact about this movie is that the story was based on a real-life event. The production and story writer did add a feelings and elements from their personal love life.

Now here's the thing, there are going to be spoilers in this discussion. Please avoid it if you wanna enjoy the movie spoilers free.

When Bollywood announced this remake critics had mixed predictions for the film. Some were excited about a remake, some were afraid of the controversies this movie might create. Bollywood making a film like this was quite a risk.

I did watch the original, I knew the story but surely skipped the non-important intimate scenes. RX 100 has quite a lot of them. The remake is heavily censored. There are quite a different approaches to some bonding scenes. And overall the budget for this film was just so high. Visually the movie is great.

The one thing that caught my eye while watching this movie was Ishana the main lead.

Ahan Shetty played the part of the hunk Ishana in this movie, the pain and the level of craziness he brought on the screen were enough for this movie. It's like he played two different characters in this movie. His bad ass personal one who has nothing left to lose, is purely motivated by anger and the pain in love.

As Ishana goes through the three years he'd been apart from his love Ramisha played by my crush Tara Sutaria. We began to see the cracks in his personality. Ishana was quite emotional from the very start and it's made clear by his childlike short temper. His constant need for closure and longing for love is what we fall in love with. This man was quite vulnerable.

Ramisha, during the first half, you might genuinely think she's the manic pixie dream girl that'll fix Ishana. Well, that's all great and all until the pin when you get to the climax. She's the villain a master of deception and the way she forged love, it's one thing to play a female lead but the way the directors fool us is just crazy. As most of the story is from Ishana's perspective.

Ramisha's evil persona is so twisted that for here dating and love are just casual things. Ramisha toys with the viewer with her hidden personality is just so crazy. The lines she said to seduce Ishana were so cute and innocent that nobody could have suspected her as a villain. Her total disregard for Ishana and not even taking responsibility it's quite crazy.

In his final moments, we get to see a flashback of Ishana love for the Ramisha he knew. A beautiful lie, perfect happy faces that feel at ease together. A paradise be kept asking for.

We finally say the horror and regret on Ramisha's face when Ishana's blood was directly on her face. She witnessed the true intensity of Ishana's love as the man bleed his guts out for her, even betrayed he died for her happiness.

One of the most beautiful lines from the film is "people don't ask for hate in return. But they do ask for love in return, sometimes they just kill themselves while begging for it."

Ishana is the personification of all those who got betrayed in love, someone who held on till the very end and it ended up hurting even worse. He thought his pain isn't much compared to the one he loved.

He was a joke because he was truly in love. He believed in a beautiful lie and just wanted to make it a reality. He lost his sanity and with that the will to live. The world was his enemy.

As said in the film, "you start doing things because they seem cool, then they becomes a habit and then finally an addiction."

Love is just another drug. First, it elevates you, then slams you to the ground.

Tadap and RX100 show the real toxicity in love, this movie is about betrayal, A story of a broken individual and lies.

*The movie might have a girl cheating on a guy, the thing to remember is think of these characters and people not their genders.*

The way these movies are coming out it makes me a bit worried about the next installment in Tara's filmography. Ek villain returns, starting John and Arjun the movie could either be a bit it a horrible disaster. Just today it's music droped and I guess I kinda know where this film is going. And it makes me feel scared.