India, July 24 -- "Friend friend friend kiye jaati ho, feeling boyfriend waali diye jaati ho." Ironically, that hook line from a song in Tera Yaar Hoon Main ends up describing the film better than anything else. It desperately wants to be a charming romantic comedy but delivers the cinematic equivalent of someone refusing to take a hint.

Romantic comedy is hardly rocket science. You make the audience root for the romance and laugh at the comedy. Tera Yaar Hoon Main achieves neither. Its idea of a comic high is an ant crawling into a woman's bosom while the hero awkwardly tries to retrieve it. If that's the benchmark for laughs, the joke is unfortunately on the audience.

Directed by Milap Milan Zaveri, the story revolves around Sanju (Am...