That effectively signals the halfway mark of the film. She runs, in slow motion, knocking everything over in the process. But, horror of horrors, she’s forgotten it in her hotel room. Vasudha tearfully rejects it, saying she’s bound to her husband, and tradition, pointing to her mangalsutra (a necklace some Hindu women wear to signify they’re married). There’s a random spin-the-bottle game inserted somewhere here, but I digress. So this tug-of-war of emotions continues for a while until Aarav declares his love for Vasudha with the beautiful Abu Dhabi desert as backdrop. There’s also a back story about how she was married off to Hari against her will by her religious father and forced to tattoo her husband’s name on her arm.
Her husband Hari (Rao) has been missing for the last five years and the police have evidence he’s joined a terrorist group. Vasudha is a married woman, with a young child. Aarav reaches out to wipe it, forever sealing their tragic fates.īut life’s not so simple. It’s not long before something flies into her eyes, causing tears to stream down her softly-focused face. He’s so impressed by her dedication he gives her a promotion to work in his hotel in Dubai.Īnd now the poor woman’s being driven straight to the Miracle Garden from the airport and asked what she thinks about it. Vasudha is a florist and part-time philosopher who selflessly ‘saves’ Aarav in a mock fire drill in his hotel in Mumbai. “There are no dried leaves here, it’s too perfect,” says Balan’s Vasudha in a scene shot at Dubai’s Miracle Garden, where a smitten hotel magnate Aarav Ruparel (Hashmi) stands over her, hanging on her every word. You see, when you have top-notch actors like Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi and Rajkummar Rao, you do not turn them into cliched Bollywood characters who are reduced to mouthing the cheesiest lines you could think of. Because all that it could have been is a real good film. And that’s the theme for our review of the tragic love story. All That Could Have Been is Mahesh Bhatt’s book version of the film Hamari Adhuri Kahani (Our incomplete story), which he wrote and produced.
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