Bhool chuk maaf review: Rajkumar Rao in Time Loop of Missogini and Lopsard Love
In ‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’, old concepts of pregnancy jokes and love are given more importance than an attempt to bring a progressive story from Hartland in India. Even Rajkumar Rao cannot save it in a loop, which lacks love film.

Release date: May 23, 2025
At one time loop, a lot of confusion, a story of faith, a love angle, and Rajkummar Rao’s signature small town’s comic – ‘Bhool Chuk’ has found everything right on paper. However, nothing seems to be well executed. The idea of the film about a love story is very high and its humor, very crazy, for an audience, now access to world cinema. In ‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’, neither time loop nor love story has been planned wisely. Both are filled with tones of flaws and bright discrepancies that make it difficult to be busy. Oh! And moving forward is another problem – because how can we do, when the story refuses itself?
The film takes an hour to establish its central struggle, something that the trailer and other promos had already told the audience. Rao’s Ranjan Tiwari and Vamika Gabbi are in love and want to get married despite rejection of their families. Nevertheless, Titley is never seen while appreciating Ranjan or expressing deep love for him, but later more on him. Her father presents a condition: get a government job in two months, or forget about marriage. The search begins. Even after trying for many years, Ranjan did not manage to take off any government job. He chooses an easy way: bribing someone to work. And when he also becomes a dead end, he turns to faith, swearing to do a noble work (great deed) in a Shiva temple if his wish is fulfilled.
Things begin to fall into place, and they get a job, only to get stuck in a loop a day before their marriage. Ranjan will have to find a way to break the loop, or he will never get up on his wedding day with Titley.
The Time Loop is a fresh and complicated concept for the Indian audience. The establishment of the story in Varanasi, the land of Lord Shiva, is another great step that adds colors and thematic depth to the story. However, neither the setting nor the concept alone can overcome a film that drugs endlessly. Gabbi’s over-the-top performance is a great issue with ‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’. He is like a loud child in a candy store, confusing and constantly complaining. The complete shortage of chemistry between Titley and Ranjan is another.
The kind of love that implicates you in time should be deep, emotional and compelling – enriched by emotion, struggle and deep. This should make you root for lovers. In ‘Forgotten forgiveness’, you do not feel anything for two lovers. There is no connection, no compatibility, no spark. Their fickleness and tiff are neither cute nor disclosed, and their problems do not invite any sympathy. In fact, at some point, you wonder if the girl really needs to move to heaven and earth with this man.
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An independent girl from Varanasi – educated, self -consigned, and from a respectable family – is ready to sell his mother’s jewelery for a person who brings nothing to the table. His only ambition has been told, we have to marry him. It is both old and harmful. This reduces the life of a small town girl to a unique goal: securing marriage with an unemployed lover, such as she is the most aspiration that she can have. This determines the wrong standard and confirms a harmful story – it is the only meaningful discovery for women like love, no matter how unequal or undesirable. Whatever happens, she dreams a big dream for women – to make career, freedom, her choice!
Rao brings honesty and impeccable comedy time to his character. You feel for this man who is awake every day to do the same thing. But you are not confident about his innocence and his righteousness. Dosha is not in Rao’s performance, as it is stellar and only one thing that prescribes the film, but in a bad writing and direction that feels dissatisfied and undercut. ‘Forgiven forgiven’ looks like a beautiful package filled with hollow feelings and a love story that never breathes really.
It is also wrong in parts. A line makes pregnancy trivial – “Duniya ka sabse easy kaam hai bacha paaya karna, aur usme bhi 9 mamaine lag ate hain (A child berthing is the easiest task in the world, but even takes nine months) – is repeated several times in the first half. A man is ridiculed because his wife supports the house through a small pickle business. All this not only makes the story a tone-defense, but also reveals its deep penis prejudices.
Directed by Karan Sharma, there is an idea with the ‘forgiveness missed’ ability, but one that requires more introspection. Time can be a loop, love can falter, and trust can be tested – but cinema must develop. Because the audience is not trapped in tomorrow!