Nadaaniyan just streamed on Netflix that stars Ibrahim Ali Khan and Khushi Kapoor. But influencer Apoorva Makhija is also a part of the cast but she has been kept away from the promotional activities and not been tagged in the film’s social media posts either. This comes amid her ‘India’s Got Latent’ controversy.
Netizens react
“Finally saw Apoorva after a long time”. Others wondered why she wasn’t tagged, with comments like “Oh, she didn’t tag the Rebel kid”, “Why isn’t Apoorva tagged?”, “Rebel absence is just not so done”, and “Why is no one tagging Rebel Kid?”. One said, “She’s better than Khushi Kapoor.”
In its review of the film, Firstpost wrote- “In some places I even felt the storyteller was trying hard to normalise infidelity too in the character played by Suniel Shetty, father of Pia (Khushi Kapoor). And the concept of Pia’s mother (Mahima Chaudhry) dying to have a son is very redundant, regressive and doesn’t really exist in today’s world. Honestly speaking, the entire narrative of a rich girl falling in love with a middle-class boy is grave and ridiculously boring. The film is so damn predictable that you don’t even need to watch the entire film to know how it ends and what is happening next.”
It also said, “To launch Ibrahim Ali Khan, Saif Ali Khan’s son with this kind of a film under Shauna Gautam’s directorial debut who himself is clueless about what works on the digital platform was a major risk. Though Ibrahim tries hard to at least salvage the film, he too fails. I believe he would have done a great job had he been under the tutelage of a good director. He has the potential, the good looks of his father and physique to die for, all he needs is guidance from a good craftsman. In the digital platform, you really don’t bother about locations; all you need is a solid story and this film doesn’t really have one.”