Touted as an ‘Impossible’ love story, Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya follows the story of an IT Engineer who falls in love with a girl while being on a trip to US, only to realise that the ‘girl’ is actually a programmed device called ‘Sifra’. I had a basic fundamental issue with the film straight up. You did showcase the progress that AI was making at the beginning of the film. But your central character ‘Sifra’ was reduced to a character similar to Viki from Small Wonder or Karishma from Karishma Ka Karishma. Why? With the concept of AI at the helm of affairs, the story could have taken any form or shape that would have added the much needed shock value in the narrative as well. But when the story itself is a Rom-Com, the seriousness of the subject coupled with the limit that AI could be pushed would be limited to just the basics. And that is what the film suffers from here as it tries to inculcate a commercial entertainer with AI used only as a catalyst in a screenplay standing at 140 minutes. 

The drama begins with the introduction of the protagonist who refuses to get married much to the dismay of his family. Outside his family, the protagonist is a software engineer who strangely is shown to monitor AI tests based on the code written by his colleagues. Chalo passable! The drama shifts focus to his US trip wherein he is acquainted with a girl whom he falls in love with while also getting intimate with her. This is before he finds out that she is actually a robot. The fact that a human could get intimate with a robot while not being aware of it even when that human is an IT/Robotics Engineer is unfathomable or completely illogical. I would have passed this plot point if it was a fleeting one but to mount an entire film on this plot point to pave way for future complications was simply a case of lazy writing. I would still say that some jokes do land in the first hour even as the love story consistently remains emotionless. 

The proceedings are predictable while atleast being watchable in the first hour that is still flawed in my opinion. I wasn’t fully convinced on why the protagonist was completely fallen for a machine simply because the writing did not convey me that. He wasn’t depressed like the case in Her nor was he suffering from rejection from every girl that he met. The sole reasoning itself came in the way of a watchable Rom-Com in the first hour that enters an insufferable territory post the halfway mark. 

Things go for a complete toss in the second hour with the whole family dimension coming into play. To give you a perspective, even if I were to take the AI angle of the film out of the second hour then the whole drama would be reduced to a very ordinary Rom-Com. My point being that the AI and its subsequent confusion did nothing to elevate the second hour which was just reduced to a series of events until the resurrecting final act which atleast did show spark although poorly staged. And to think at the possibilities that the writing could have achieved with the concept of AI simply left me infuriated. The screenplay was a masterclass on how not to mount commercial films with concepts just for the sake of it. I must add that Maddock as a production house is picking interesting subjects but the flaw in their films lies in execution that they must address(irrespective of the fate of this film).