Unaware of their budding romance, Binny’s family members treat Gattu like one of their own and, in fact, often assign him duties which they would normally assign to the son/brother of the house.
Gattu Nautiyal (Rajkumar Rao) is one such boy who lives in Lucknow and is in love with his neighbour, Binny Arora (Shruti Haasan). The city is known for its elders who force guys to get rakhis tied around their wrist by girls of the locality so that the boys can’t flirt with them as they would then become their deemed sisters. That's one rare moment of inspiration propped up by Rao's histrionic skills.Oddball Motion Pictures’ Behen Hogi Teri ( UA) is a love story set in Lucknow. Later, in an inebriated state, Gattu rants at all the SRK films in which Rahul gets the girl in the end. But under pressure from her family, she gets engaged to a France-based NRI named Rahul, as a distraught Gattu, in the guise of Lord Shiva, looks on helplessly. If not exactly a doormat, Binny isn't the livewire that she pretends to be. In the universe that Behen Hogi Teri constructs, that is exactly how a 'good girl' is supposed to end up. In fact, she admits that she was once a gunpowder-dry firecracker but has now lost her fizz. Early on, Gattu says of Binny: " Yeh normal pataka nahin, firebrand hai." But the heroine does little thereafter to genuinely justify the 'firebrand' tag. The film refers to 'fireworks' more than once but produces none. Its mindset reeks of disregard of, if not outright disdain for, a girl's right to let her heart chart its own course. It is precisely this apparently inoffensive nature of the amusement that it delivers that makes the film particularly regressive. Yet, Behen Hogi Teri, for the most part, might seem like a lot of harmless fun. Mohalle ki ladkiyaan maa behen hoti hai, says Gattu's dad (Darshan Jariwala) at the dinner table. The title of the film, for one, is grossly sexist - it not only defines the heroine solely in the context of her relation, familial or otherwise, to the men around her but it also assigns 'ownership' of her fate to the latter. The plot itself is wafer thin and exceedingly fatuous, when it isn't irritating. But this isn't the worst of debutant director Ajay Pannalal's missteps in Behen Hogi Teri. Shruti Haasan is completely miscast as Binny Arora, a spirited Punjabi girl whose multiple suitors, real and imagined, cause much confusion and heartburn. Shruti Haasan and Rajkummar Rao in Behen Hogi Teri As a consequence, the film wallows in a morass of mediocrity and all its efforts to heave itself out of it falls flat.
Solid as Shiv 'Gattu' Nautiyal, the boy who is more a callow, pesky teenager than the man he should be, the lead actor receives little support from either the patchy screenplay or the remainder of the cast. The only real spark in the terribly tepid Behen Hogi Teri is provided by Rajkummar Rao. This film does make a lot of noise around the unassuming hero's struggles to eliminate the hurdles in his path, some of them of his own making, but it says nothing that is significant enough to set it apart from a run-of-the-mill Bollywood rom-com. Sounds a touch different? It's far-fetched too. The protagonist of Behen Hogi Teri is a laidback Lucknow lad so unremarkable that the whole world and its uncle get away with the assumption that he can only be a brother to the girl he secretly loves. Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shruti Haasan, Gautam Gulati, Gulshan Grover, Rupa Agrawal