Hate at First Sight, With Love and Its Hurdles to Follow There is something for everyone in Prabhudheva's ambitious Bollywood film "Ramaiya Vastavaiya" - comedy, romance, action and the obligatory music-and-dancing numbers - but hardly any of it is convincing, and the proceedings are rife with clichés. The film, a remake of his own "Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana," from 2005, seems to have been made anew for the big-screen debut of Girish Kumar, the son of the music and film producer Kumar S. Taurani. In the first half, viewers are whisked to a wedding celebration, where the playful jokester Ram (Mr. Kumar), the bride's cousin, falls in love with Sona (Shruti Hassan), a poor girl from a village in Punjab, who is the bride's best friend. Sona thinks Ram, raised in Australia by billionaire parents, is a spoiled brat. He doesn't do much to prove her wrong. It's more hate at first sight than love, but Ram wins her over eventually. One hurdle down, but then there's a bigger one: Their families just don't feel the love. Ram's mother thinks Sona is a straight-up schemer and boots her from the festivities. Later on, when Ram arrives in Sona's village to ask for her hand, Sona's brother, Raghu (sincerely portrayed by Sonu Sood), presents him with an impossible challenge: To marry Sona, Ram must farm a parcel of land and reap more wheat than Raghu. While Mr. Kumar's goofy routine is a bit much in the first half (nearly undermining the plausibility of the romance), he hits a better stride in the more serious second half, when Ram disproves Raghu's own bias "that the rich don't value relationships." But then again, you can't really blame a man for being protective of his young sister in a world of salivating men and rich parents hellbent on protecting their interests at any cost. Ramaiya Vastavaiya Directed by Prabhudheva; written by Shiraz Ahmed; director of photography, Kiran Deohans; edited by Hemal Kothari; music by Sachin and Jigar; choreography by Vishnudeva; production design by Sunil Babu; produced by Kumar Taurani; released by Reliance Entertainment. In Hindi, with English subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 28 minutes. WITH: Girish Kumar (Ram), Shruti Hassan (Sona) and Sonu Sood (Raghu).