The lady from a small town village (Shruti Haasan) is wooed by a crazy NRI  guy (Girsih Kumar) at a wedding.  Their families (Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Sonu Sood and Vinod Khanna) go into an overboard drama providing a high dose of extra emotion.

The lady leaves for her village alongwith the tough brother. The NRI follows them there and tries his best to win over the Bigg brother. Will he accomplish his target? Prabhu Deva’s Ramaiya Vastavaiya serves this old masala in a new packet which is tasteless.

Innovation will be a fake expectation from this bygone era’s drama portrayal. Prabhu Deva, who is known for his action flicks, doesn’t show similar command over romanticism in Ramaiya Vastavaiya.

Churning out all the flavours of the late 80’s and 90’s in his drama, he fails to bind us in this over the top melodramatical journey. The story which could have been treated with renovation is left pale.
You can’t even term it as an ode to cinematic excellence which used to be loved by the admirers earlier. In fact the sole purpose of this flick seems to launch Girish Kumar with an already tried and tested formula. But unfortunately he also fails to capitalize on this safe formula.

The first half almost resembles Salman Khan’s 1989 ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ while the second half  could be compared with his 1998 ‘Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya’.

In order to follow those bygone proceedings, Prabhu employs actors like Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon and Vinod Khanna who try too hard to be rational.

Jacqueline Fernandez’s item number is nothing but an attempt to fill the gaps of the flick which is not enough.Though there are a few amusing flashes with couple of beautiful songs but the melodrama of the typecast comes harder over it to ruin the minimum of  fun.
Girish Kumar as a spoilt brat has a decent show in the flick. Shruti Haasan looks pretty. Sonu Sood is good but seems like trapped in this emotional encounter.

Poonam Dhillon, Randhir Kapoor and Vinod Khanna’s performances are decent.

Sachin-Jigar’s music has nothing new to offer. Among the songs Atif Aslam’s Jeene laga hoon and Ke rang jo lagyo are good.

Ramaiya Vastavaiya deserves two stars, which is the remake of  the director’s 2005  venture in a Telugu film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (which itself was a remake of Maine Pyar Kiya). You can safely give a miss to this one.