Rated 6.5/10 on imdb, and produced by Karan Johar speaks volumes of the movie in itself.
It is a story of a spoiled brat Badrinath played by Varun Dhawan, who meets Vaidehi Trivedi, played by Alia Bhatt , and decides to marry her , just because his father has a great reputation in Jhansi and she would be lucky to be married, since she isn't getting any younger , and her parents ,won't feel burdened for long enough, who is from Kota btw.
Beautifully depicted is the wonder park in Kota, seems very beautiful, I think that is the other thing famous in Kota other than coaching classes for IIT-JEE , mentioned vividly in the movie.
Also demonstrated were the brands , like Lenovo mobile, used by Badrinath to take selfies, and Frankfinn institute for air hostesses, where Vaidehi decides to flee, leaving Badri and his family in shame at the alter.
Vaidehi gets a job in Silk air, in Singapore and decides to live there as long as she can, and also stay away form all the marriage-with-dowry-agenda, on which Badri's father feeds on, besides the oxygen cylinder, to be used in case of emergency if he goes into a cardiac arrest.
The writer and director Shashank Khaitan, has done a commendable job, the dialogues and the deliveries throughout the movie is almost impeccable. The humour is too clever and has been juxtaposed in almost every scene possible in the first half of the movie. The second half gets a bit emotional and sentimental, as a bollywood movie is supposed to have, just like the unnecessary inclusions of songs in the movie, which I think are only euphemisms for making love (aashiq surrender ho gaya, BDSM is it? I don't know, viewers you decide).
Even though it seems clear that the actors who are not from the parts of the land they depicted to be from, did a lot of homework on the accents and the body language and the slurs, in my opinion , they lacked conviction. They can get a tutor, they can hang out with guys from UP and Rajasthan, but that meticulous swag, that style, that way of saying things , that smirk, of a resident can not be replicated, I am sorry, you just can't pretend, pretension like luck, always runs out.
The grandiose arrangements of weddings were almost flawless, with lights on every entrance and every edge of every window and alley ways you could find, was just too beautiful to ignore.Kudos to the spotboys.
A little bit of bad advertising for Tuborg though, just may be after a couple of pints, Badri and his friend Somesh were too drunk to even stand straight, I mean it is Tuborg, not even Tuborg strong, seemed odd from the beefed up actor. Anyway, both of them (Varun and Alia) didn't leave a single opportunity to showcase their hard worked mannequin-type bodies.Oh speaking of which, there is a mannequin challenge too, wonderfully epitomized in the opening song.
I also liked the way credits were displayed, not covering the entire frame, and dropping hints of names in and around the protagonists of the song/scene.
And I am not sure if it was a wise decision to be a successful air hostess in Silk Air, Singapore and then come back to India, and from all places , settle in Jhansi and open up an academy for young aspirants. No offense to people of Jhansi, but I don't see it as a wise decision.
It is a story of a spoiled brat Badrinath played by Varun Dhawan, who meets Vaidehi Trivedi, played by Alia Bhatt , and decides to marry her , just because his father has a great reputation in Jhansi and she would be lucky to be married, since she isn't getting any younger , and her parents ,won't feel burdened for long enough, who is from Kota btw.
Beautifully depicted is the wonder park in Kota, seems very beautiful, I think that is the other thing famous in Kota other than coaching classes for IIT-JEE , mentioned vividly in the movie.
Also demonstrated were the brands , like Lenovo mobile, used by Badrinath to take selfies, and Frankfinn institute for air hostesses, where Vaidehi decides to flee, leaving Badri and his family in shame at the alter.
Vaidehi gets a job in Silk air, in Singapore and decides to live there as long as she can, and also stay away form all the marriage-with-dowry-agenda, on which Badri's father feeds on, besides the oxygen cylinder, to be used in case of emergency if he goes into a cardiac arrest.
The writer and director Shashank Khaitan, has done a commendable job, the dialogues and the deliveries throughout the movie is almost impeccable. The humour is too clever and has been juxtaposed in almost every scene possible in the first half of the movie. The second half gets a bit emotional and sentimental, as a bollywood movie is supposed to have, just like the unnecessary inclusions of songs in the movie, which I think are only euphemisms for making love (aashiq surrender ho gaya, BDSM is it? I don't know, viewers you decide).
Even though it seems clear that the actors who are not from the parts of the land they depicted to be from, did a lot of homework on the accents and the body language and the slurs, in my opinion , they lacked conviction. They can get a tutor, they can hang out with guys from UP and Rajasthan, but that meticulous swag, that style, that way of saying things , that smirk, of a resident can not be replicated, I am sorry, you just can't pretend, pretension like luck, always runs out.
The grandiose arrangements of weddings were almost flawless, with lights on every entrance and every edge of every window and alley ways you could find, was just too beautiful to ignore.Kudos to the spotboys.
A little bit of bad advertising for Tuborg though, just may be after a couple of pints, Badri and his friend Somesh were too drunk to even stand straight, I mean it is Tuborg, not even Tuborg strong, seemed odd from the beefed up actor. Anyway, both of them (Varun and Alia) didn't leave a single opportunity to showcase their hard worked mannequin-type bodies.Oh speaking of which, there is a mannequin challenge too, wonderfully epitomized in the opening song.
I also liked the way credits were displayed, not covering the entire frame, and dropping hints of names in and around the protagonists of the song/scene.
And I am not sure if it was a wise decision to be a successful air hostess in Silk Air, Singapore and then come back to India, and from all places , settle in Jhansi and open up an academy for young aspirants. No offense to people of Jhansi, but I don't see it as a wise decision.
