Dhanush's Tere Ishk Mein will be hitting the streaming space nearly two months after its theatrical release. The Aanand L. Rai feature, which has Kriti Sanon playing the female lead, will be hitting Netflix on January 23.
A dark, intense romantic drama revolving around an Air Force officer Lieutenant Shankar Gurukkal and Mukti, a psychology researcher, Tere Ishk Mein was touted as a spiritual successor to the actor-director's previous collaboration Raanjhanaa.
In its review of the movie, THE WEEK wrote: "The film wants you to believe it’s about two broken individuals drawn to one another, but it feels more like a case of broken writing. While Shankar’s motivations are understudied, but what is more perplexing is Mukti’s saviour complex -- why she feels compelled to fix him, and why she’s obsessively drawn to him. Oh, and she also becomes an alcoholic out of nowhere. You’ll never know, why."
While comparing Tere Ishk Mein and Raanjhanaa, the review further added, "Raanjhanaa had two strong suits: A.R. Rahman’s music and Benares, which functioned like a living, breathing character — its ghats, its cadence, its way of life. Here, music barely leaves a mark, and Delhi is reduced to a cardboard backdrop, explored only through its most obvious contrast: Shankar’s slum versus Mukti’s Lutyens’ Delhi. While Dhanush and Sanon land a cracking performance, other actors, tall in their way, are underused – be it Raj, Tota Roy Chowdhury, as Sanon’s father, or Priyanshu Painyuli, as Dhanush’s friend."