India, Sept. 25 -- Don't Be Shy reminds one of Karan Johar's Student of the Year and Zoya Akhtar's The Archies. A typical high-school drama where there's love, heartbreak, enough drama to fill a semester with everything, except studies. And that's where the similarities end. What follows is far less glossy and far more chaotic. Certainly not the campus fantasy you might expect.

For the first half hour of the film, I was honestly struggling to figure out what exactly it was trying to say. The story revolves around Shyamali 'Shy' Das (Aarushi Bajaj), who dreams of making it big in life by piggybacking on her boyfriend Mayank Jhunjhunwala (Piyush Khati), the heir to a billionaire family. But all her plans come crashing down when he suddenly...