Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat Review: Harshvardhan Rane and Sonam Bajwa Starrer is a Hate Crime Against Love

Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat Review: One-sided obsessive love stories are nothing new in Hindi cinema. Over the years, we’ve seen plenty of “romantic” movies about men who stalk, chase, and emotionally blackmail women until they say yes. When that fails, they threaten or even try to kill them, all in the name of “pyaar”. In Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat, Harshvardhan Rane’s Vikramaditya Bhosle does all of this and still manages to paint himself as the poor victim. Because how dare Adaa (Sonam Bajwa) say no to him?

Deewane Ki Deewaniyat Review: Plot Discussion and More

Harshvardhan Rane plays a politician who falls in love with Adaa, a Bollywood actress. During their first meeting, Aditya proudly claims he has no clue who she is because apparently, being a politician means you don’t follow the competition, aka the entertainment world. Adaa clearly rejects his love and marriage proposal. But since this is a Hindi film about a man allergic to the word “no”, Aditya doesn’t take it well.

Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat is hands down one of the worst Hindi films of 2025. The makers try to fool the audience by showing that Adaa never gives in to Aditya’s pressure. But every frame is designed to make us sympathise with this heartbroken, “bechara” aashiq. The funniest part? He’s the reason Adaa’s family ends up in trouble, and then he vows to “protect” them. Protect them from what? The man was their biggest problem to begin with! And let’s not forget, he made people call her bhabhi, because obsession clearly needed a title.

Milap Zaveri’s direction takes problematic to a whole new level. The film trivialises the entire ‘no means no’ idea and turns it into a guessing game: Will Adaa’s no turn into a yes? Spoiler: it does, without anyone saying it out loud. It’s exhausting to see a grown man who believes that if he can’t have something, he’ll just snatch it being romanticised and glorified on screen. Watching this in 2025 honestly feels disturbing. Why is this emotional abuse still called love? Did we learn nothing from Kabir Singh?

If the story was pathetic, the execution was even worse. Every second scene is in slow motion, after a monologue, before an argument, and probably even during lunch. It’s like watching one of those overdramatic shorts on social media that refuse to end. I half-expected someone to start clapping or spitting out water for added effect. The film takes emotional abuse and manipulation and packages it as “intense love”, creating unpleasant content that goes viral online.

 

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Harshvardhan Rane delivers some of the most ridiculous dialogues with full conviction, hamming his way through like he’s in a tragic love song. It’s almost sad to see such a toxic, delusional character being presented as a “deewana” just because the girl doesn’t reciprocate his feelings. Sonam Bajwa, on the other hand, gets grand entries in slow motion every single time, but with the exact same expression. Actually, there are so many slow-motion shots in Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat, you could nap halfway and wake up to find the same scene still playing… just slower.

Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat Review: Final Thoughts

In the end, Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat isn’t a love story. It’s a hate story against love, consent, and basic sense. It glorifies obsession, victimises male entitlement, and pretends to be emotionally profound. If this is what modern romance looks like, where one-sided and obsessive lovers constantly engage in victim mode and rage, we’re in serious need of a breakup with films like these.