Baby, you can drive my car.

 Bollywood romances are famously complicated.  That's why the movies tend to be so long; you've got to make room for the stern parents, the bitter rival, the comic relief subplot, the unexpected fight scenes and the big, gorgeous musical numbers.  Challo Driver (2012), on the other hand, is not complicated.  It has a trim running time and is one of the most straightforward and on-the-nose love stories I have ever seen.

Tanya (Kainaz Motivala) needs a job.  She wants to make enough money to open up a travel agency, but she also wants a challenge, so when a friend dares her to apply for a job as a chauffeur, that is exactly what she does.

 Mr. Kapoor (Prem Chopra) needs a chauffeur for his grandson.  He's impressed by Tanya, and offers her enough money to start the business of her dreams, but only if she's willing to sign a contract promising to stay on the job for a full six months.  Kapoor has an ulterior motive; grandson Arjun (Vickrant Mahajan) is a driven and abrasive businessman with a habit of firing his drivers over the slightest mistake, and Kapoor made a bet with him that he couldn't go six months without firing another one.

At first Arjun and Tanya don't really get along; he's trying to get around the terms of the bet by getting her to quit, while she's not used to being treated as staff.  But after Tanya has a chance to turn the tables, with Arjun pretending to be her chauffeur and driving her abrasive uncle Pappu (Manoj Pahwa) and Aunt Sweety (Silky Khanna) around Delhi for a couple of days, Arjun learns to respect her and they start to bond over a mutual love of self help books.

And that's the plot.  At first they don't get along, and then they do, and by the end of the movie they're in love.  You might think that the bet would cause problems in their relationship, but Tanya finds out about it almost immediately and doesn't really care; what it really means is that she's unlikely to be fired.  the opening song is all about men and women working the jobs they want and being treated equally, but while some characters point out that a female chauffeur is unusual, it's fine.  

There is a last minute attempt to inject some conflict into the story with a little confusion over a gender neutral Sikh name, but it's a problem that can be cleared up with five minutes of conversation, and the characters have five minutes of conversation.

Challo Driver is fine for what it is.  Motivala and Mahajan have a simple, easy going chemistry and spending time with the characters is pleasant enough.  It's just too easy and over too quickly - it's like watching a masala movie and fast-forwarding through everything but the romantic scenes.  It's sweet, but it's not very filling.