Yuvvraaj
- Director
- Subhash Ghai
- Studio
- Mukta Arts
- Release Date
- 20 November 2008
- Running Time
- 159 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹48.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹31.22 Cr
Review
Yuvvraaj is a film that mistakes melodrama for emotional depth and confuses a bloated runtime with storytelling substance. Anil Sharma's direction lacks the finesse needed to balance a premise that could've worked—a brother reconciliation wrapped in a financial thriller—but instead delivers a sloppy, self-indulgent mess. Salman Khan coasts through the role of Dev with the kind of lazy charm that only works when you're playing someone charming; here he's supposed to be a struggling musician and deadbeat boyfriend, yet the film never commits to showing us why anyone would tolerate him. Sohail Khan as Danny is marginally more committed to the material, but even he can't salvage the jarring tonal shifts that see the film careen from comedy to con-artistry to brotherly love within minutes, each register feeling completely disconnected from the last.
The core conflict—manipulating their mentally disabled brother for inheritance money—is treated with all the sensitivity of a sledgehammer, and when the film abruptly pivots to "family is everything," it feels less like character growth and more like the writers realized they'd written themselves into a corner. Randhir Kapoor's father figure appears primarily in photographs, Katrina Kaif's Anushka exists as a plot device rather than a character, and the Austria detour feels like an expensive tourism board advertisement rather than a story beat. At nearly three hours, Yuvvraaj tests your patience relentlessly, convinced that length equ
Storyline
So there's this guy Dev who's a struggling musician and pretty much a mess, right? His girlfriend's dad totally disapproves of him because he's broke and unreliable, and to make matters worse, his own family had disowned him years ago after some fight with his brother. Then one day he finds out his father died through a newspaper article, which is pretty brutal. But here's the twist—the old man left behind a crazy deal: if Dev can become a billionaire within 40 days, he gets everything. Sounds impossible, but he's willing to try.
To pull this off, Dev has to reconnect with his two brothers who he hasn't seen in over a decade. When they finally meet up, things get awkward real fast because it turns out their father left all his wealth to Gyanesh, who has some mental challenges. So Dev and his other brother Danny decide to team up and basically con Gyanesh out of the fortune. But Danny's scheme to manipulate Gyanesh goes way too far and gets pretty ugly, so Dev steps in and surprisingly becomes protective of their younger brother instead.
Dev takes Gyanesh to Austria to try and win him over, and honestly something magical happens there. Gyanesh turns out to have an incredible singing voice, and he and Dev's girlfriend Anushka become really close—which obviously makes Dev feel some type of way at first. But eventually Dev realizes that having his family back matters way more than any amount of money or jealousy could ever matter. Things start shifting as the brothers begin to actually care about each other, especially when Danny's own life falls apart and he needs his brothers' support too.
