Not really. First-time director Nitya Mehra’s Baar Baar Dekho opts for an excessively imported concept of time travel, overloading the narrative with so many flashbacks and flash forwards that you might feel as dizzy as you would on a funfair’s merry-go-round gone out of control.
Now there’s nothing wrong about a non-linear structure. But hello, because of the constant leapfrogging, the viewer’s interest is hopelessly challenged. Like it or not, BBD seems to be strongly influenced by Hollywood’s time-hop flicks like the Ashton Kutcher-toplined The Butterfly Effect and the Nicolas Cage thriller Next, not to omit Britain’s futuristic About Time. All points of resemblance, you’d like to think, are purely coincidental.
