Mannu Kya Karegga

Saurabh Gupta’s story is weak and makes almost no sense because it is sketchy. That Mannu is so directionless in life doesn’t come through to the audience till Jiya announces so, because a dialogue here and a firing from the college dean there don’t underline the problem which the story writer (Saurabh Gupta) and screenplay writers Saurabh Gupta and Sanjay Tripathy are trying to underline. The drama has been written in such a uni-dimensional manner that Mannu’s mother doesn’t even know in advance about Mannu’s lack of attendance despite being the college head. Why the dean did not sound her about such an important thing has simply not been explained. Mannu’s father keeps making light of the fact that Mannu is not serious in life as if it were as inconsequential as he waking up at 8 a.m. instead of 7.45 a.m. Jiya seems to be so dumb that she believes Mannu’s cock-and-bull story about the start-up without questioning him about how his best friend and associate in the start-up, Chand (Naman Gor), had managed to attend college in spite of being busy with the same business.