Meri Pyaari Bindu teaser: Parineeti Chopra, Ayushmann Khurrana's film is full of old world charm

The teaser of Akshay Roy’s romantic comedy Meri Pyaari Bindu revealed that Ayushmann Khurrana and Parineeti Chopra play a writer and a singer respectively. The first teaser explores the kind of relationship they share.

The film, just like Khurrana’s last outing with Yash Raj Films, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, is full of old world charm. Khurrana and Chopra’s characters have recorded their memories in a cassette, and not in Snapchat videos. The cassette plays another crucial role later in the teaser as it is used as a metaphor of the complicated and entwined bond that the two lovers share.

There is also a good ol’ typewriter. Khurrana types down his thoughts, not on his MacBook, but on his typewriter. In fact, the idea of Khurrana looking at Chopra’s quirks on a curtain-turned-screen and pouring out his feelings for her on paper is also a symbol of old school romance.

Besides these instruments that never get old, the background music also emits the warmth of the old world charm. Chopra’s voice spells magic with the song ‘Abhi Na Jao Chhod Kar’ from Vjay Anand’s 1961 film Hum Dono. The song aptly expresses the transition in the mood of the trailer, from love to abandonment. The abandonment part explains why Khurrana’s book was titled ‘Chudail Ki Choli’, probably a vent to his lost love.

Not only Parineeti’s but also Khurrana’s voice is impressive in the trailer as he narrates his love for Bindu, played by Chopra. The cliffhanger towards the end of the teaser adds intrigue to the film and makes the viewers look forward to ‘Chapter 1’ on 3 April.

It looks like the makers have taken a page out of Gauri Shinde’s book as the filmmaker replaced the concept of theatrical trailer with a few small ‘Takes’ of her film Dear Zindagi since its protagonist was a cinematographer. As Khurrana plays a writer in Meri Pyaari Bindu, releasing the trailer in the form of multiple chapters makes sense.

Meri Pyaari Bindu is co-produced by Maneesh Sharma and Aditya Chopra’s Yash Raj Films. It is slated to release on 12 May.