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Dear Comrade tries hard to be a unique love story with a message. It is a story about Bobby who is Arjun Reddy 2.0 and Lilly, a timid girl who plays state level cricket. The story fails miserably as it attempts to bring in so many topics of communism, anger issues, women's cricket, mental health, breakups, sexual harassment, pseudoscience like sound therapy etc. It is annoying to watch such broad and complex topics being used as props to make the story compelling. Even sensitive topics like mental health and sexual harassment are casually thrown in and their treatment is insulting. Vijay Deverkonda is channeling Arjun Reddy and Rashmika's acting is terrible. The only saving grace of the movie is the music. After a slow and tortuous journey for these characters, the climax is very unimpressive. I couldn't wait to get out of theater. Dear Comrade is a hard pass.

Except the music, the movie is predictable and a big nothing burger. Yes, it is not 8 mile because it can't touch it at any measure, even the rap tracks. Ranveer Singh looks like an adult man trying to be young college dude and he shouldn't have rapped at all by himself. Alia Bhatt 's role is not about an empowered woman but just about a dramabaaz. As usual, her acting is linear and loud. It is a movie that put Indian rap scene in spotlight and the only saving grace of the film is MC Sher played by Siddhant Chaturvedi. He was so charming and was perfectly billed for his role. He stole the show from everyone.