Tu Hai Meri Kiran movie review: The film stars Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal.

Tu Hai Meri Kiran movie review: There’s this woman in 2026 who finds a flip-top phone which connects her to a man in 2016. Disbelief — is this some kind of bad joke — turns into shock. How is this even possible? On either side of the decade stand the happily-married Kiran (Sonakshi Sinha) and the jobless stalker Samar (Zaheer Iqbal) who fall into a circuitous loop of breaking-and-joining, till there arrives a tipping point.

This is the kind of plot which can either fly or collapse, depending on the skill of the writers. I’m here to tell you that this film, which borrows its title from a film whose stalker hero saga became a super-hit in the 90s, never even achieves lift-off.

There’s no lack of ambition in picking on several classic time-travel-flick elements: old, scratched instruments working miraculously, flashes of memory coming and going, mysterious things happening.…