Zubaan
- Director
- Mozez Singh
- Studio
- Guneet MongaShaan VyasMozez Singh
- Release Date
- 3 March 2016
- Running Time
- 115 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹8.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹0.52 Cr
Review
Zubaan arrives with a premise genuinely worth exploring—a young man battling a stammer and a fear of music, driven by gratitude to reconnect with his childhood benefactor. There's real emotional potential here, the kind that could resonate deeply if handled with care. Sadly, Mozez Singh's direction feels hesitant, as if the film itself is struggling to find its voice. The narrative meanders when it should soar; what begins as a touching story about healing and redemption gets lost in awkward transitions between Dilsher's obsession with Gurcharan and his sudden infatuation with Amira. The performances, particularly from Vicky Kaushal, show flashes of vulnerability and sincerity, but they're let down by a script that doesn't know whether it wants to be a character study, a romantic drama, or an inspirational tale about overcoming one's fears.
The film's greatest tragedy is that it wastes its own central conflict. Dilsher's stammer and his complex relationship with music—the very things that could have formed the emotional spine of the story—become secondary to a love story that feels tacked on. By pivoting toward Amira when the real journey should have been internal, about him learning to embrace what he fears most, the film loses its grip on what made us care in the first place. There's tenderness in moments, and the Delhi backdrop occasionally brings authenticity, but these small victories can't salvage a film that fundamentally loses faith in its own story halfway through.
Storyline
So this guy Dilsher grows up in a Punjab village with this really tough backstory—his dad was a musician who performed at temples, but after he passed away, Dilsher actually developed this fear of music. To make matters worse, he's also dealing with a stammer that makes it hard for him to speak. He decides to head to Delhi to track down this successful businessman named Gurcharan, who'd actually helped him out back in school by giving him a pen and some encouragement to chase his dreams. It's a pretty meaningful connection from their past.
When Dilsher gets to Delhi, he's determined to work his way into Gurcharan's company, so he joins a security firm thinking that'll get him close to the guy's business. Along the way, he befriends this worker named Tulsi Ram who knows Gurcharan pretty well and fills him in on more details about the man. Through all these efforts to get near Gurcharan, life takes an interesting turn when Dilsher ends up getting assigned to a music show instead, where he spots this beautiful girl named Amira dancing. Things get pretty dramatic when he's willing to do whatever it takes to change his assignment.
The whole setup is about this young guy who's carrying around all this emotional baggage and fear, but he's got this burning desire to reconnect with someone from his past who inspired him. It's got that classic Bollywood vibe where destiny and determination play a huge role in what happens next, and you're left wondering how all these different threads—his fear of music, his stammer, his reunion with Gurcharan, and his encounter with Amira—are going to weave together.
