Bobby Deol, tries his level best and gives a good performance. Though he has acted well, but I think a more soft spoken tone in his dialogues could have connected with the audience better. But in "Vaada Raha" he is made to act more than his age, speaking such mature dialogues, suggesting that he is more intelligent than all the other grown-ups roaming around in the hospital as doctors and nurses. Dwij has a great confidence and that may be the reason why Samir keeps on repeating him in his movies. Moreover, the main focus of the movie, moving around the relationship between Bobby & Dwij Yadav, also fails to impress the viewer completely.
But in order to make it commercially viable, the director goes on to add un-necessary songs into the narration and also comes up with a highly unethical climax where Bobby again reunites with her selfish fiancée who left him alone at the most inappropriate time of his life, when she was needed the most. The plot had a great potential for an off-beat kind of movie, close to the genre of "Anand" and "Mili".
But the real plot starts later on, when a small boy (Dwij Yadav), who is also there in the hospital, becomes the new friend of the doctor and motivates him to fight with his own destiny with a newly found courage and inner strength. Completely paralyzed after the accident, he is not able to move any part of the body other than his face and also gets dumped by his fiancée (Kangna Ranaut) due to his current dependent state. Until then, the viewer helplessly keeps trying to guess the real catch of the story, which actually revolves around a well known doctor (Bobby Deol), who accidentally reaches the hospital bed after a deadly road mishap. Commencing with a slow start, the main hospital plot gets into the picture after quite a while. But as experienced before, he again struggles in converting the emotional storyline into an equally transforming movie. This time too, Samir comes with a novel plot inspired by a Russian story based on the relationships between two patients in a hospital. But transforming the same story into a worth watching movie is quite a different game altogether. Selecting a fresh emotional subject for a film is as easy as reading a new story book. Samir Karnik's latest venture "Vaada Raha" walks on the same path of partly good movies as seen in his earlier projects such as "Nanhe Jaisalmer" & "Heroes".