Chand Mera Dil Cast/Actors: Ananya Panday & Lakshya
Chand Mera Dil Director: Vivek Soni
Chand Mera Dil Production House: Dharma Productions
Chand Mera Dil Release Date: 22nd May, 2026
Chand Mera Dil Available On: Theatrical Release (likely to be released on JioHotstar OTT Platform)
Chand Mera Dil Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Chand Mera Dil Runtime: 2h 26m
Chand Mera Dil Critic Movie Review:
When the end is obvious with a title that gives away where the hero is headed, writer-director Vivek Soni’s screenplay should’ve been dramatically different, offering an unseen experience at every major turn.
Let’s check how he goes about it. It’s one long predictable flashback to Hyderabad where Chandni (Ananya Panday) and Aarav (Lakshya) are engineering students, both brilliant. There’s a fresh touch to the attraction where they twin every day, wearing the same colour, without a word exchanged between them. Until Chandni takes the first step.
So far, rather nice.
The good is that there is definite chemistry between Chandni and Aarav, leading to relatable intimacy.
What’s not fresh is the emotional baggage each carries about their respective families. Yes, yes, Karan Johar and Dharma. We know that domestic violence between parents impacts children like Chandni. But is it a revelatory cinematic trauma or easy peddling of something that’s been tackled frequently on the big screen and on every OTT platform? As for Aarav’s, “There’s no love in my family” whine, there’s nothing so offkey or indifferent about his parents to warrant emotional damage in their son.
Yes, it’s tough for 20-something students to raise a child and lead successful lives. Vivek Soni heightens it by having a baby that’s only constantly wailing, there’s never one sweet moment with the infant.
Yes, it’s understandable when the tension, and giving up his dreams of an MS in the US, to raise a family so unexpectedly prematurely, begins to tell on Aarav. And yes, it is unforgivable when he does what Chandni always recoiled from – physical assault. To that extent, this moment is more effective than say an entire film called Thappad.
But no, the screenplay is so laboriously circuitous with unnecessary pitstops that even 2 hrs and 15 mins seem like a lifetime. Totally cut-able are sequences like Aarav’s encounter with a nasty student and a restaurant scene between the two families where Chandni’s mother curiously throws, “Haath uthana hamare parivaron mein nahi hota” when the whole childhood trauma was based on just that unpardonable violence. The writers, Akshat Ghildial and Tushar Paranjape included, may pat themselves on the back for the scene with the two families but it took the narration nowhere. Many other moments, a make-believe celebration where Chandni and Aarav pretend to eat and drink from empty cups and plates, a stretched climax which has windows banging furiously and winds blowing like a toofan outside but not a hair moving on Ananya’s head or anything flying in the room, finally plod to an end that’s obvious when Chandni turns up at the reunion to re-create their first moments.
The title song is somewhat hummable but Vivek’s use of a long and immemorable background song while his story labours on, adds no poignancy to the drama.
What’s worth a watch are Ananya Panday and Lakshya who perform credibly as a couple intensely attracted to each other.
Chand Mera Dil – Watch Or Not?: How about watching it when it streams on an OTT platform?
Chand Mera Dil Movie Review Score Rating: 2 out of 5 (i.e. 2/5)
Chand Mera Dil Official Trailer:
Credits: Dharma Productions
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