The story is nothing strange. A man, presumably from Mars and a lady, maybe from Venus just disagreeing. Here, their characters are even named Love (female) and War (male).

The biggest plus of It Happened That Night is the dialogues although the closed captioning being off and not appearing in the slides or at the timing they need to, is a major turnoff.

There ain’t much of a story, frankly and the film’s main point is that love and happenings mean different things for different people. While the girl is romantic at heart, the boy is cynical.

And the female lead (Bharati Kumar) could have been a bit more natural, otherwise, she looks like she’s reciting lines in a school play, a bit more work as far as honing acting chops is required.

The man (Kunal Jaisingh) is more of the natural here, perhaps his character being cynical supporting him. There are also indications of a toxic relationship but unlike the Arjun Reddy tropes, here the director dwells into why it happens. This could be beneficial for a rare sort of people who actually didn’t get Arjun Reddy. No offense, activists. Domestic violence is domestic violence.

Why women cling to such relationships and in the words of the leading lady, “A girl can only hope.”

The final ending, a picture on social media, is somewhat graceful also, somewhat amusing too since we don’t recognise what's going underneath while in any case seeming like a happy couple.

All things considered, It Happened That Night is a better than average effort.