Directed by : Maneesh Sharma
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2988272/
Different kind of hindi romantic movie, very real and entertaining.
Read at your own risk, the post is full of spoilers.
Maneesh Sharma (director) teams up with story writer Jaideep Sahni, and gives a film that talks about relationships in different way. The movie is set in Jaipur, where Raghu (Sushant Singh Rajput) is about to marry Tara (Vaani Kapoor), a girl he met and approved of marriage. But on his baraat bus, he realizes he isn't ready to marry yet, and he explains his story to Gayatri (Parineeti Chopra). So, he decides to run away from his marriage, leaving Tara waiting.
In normal movies, if a guy cheats and leaves girl on marriage day, she would cry or feel betrayed (which to certain extent she still does), but Maneesh presented it in restrained way adding humour touch with a person among the baraat saying 'main karne ko tyaar hoon shaadi' and thenTara asking for 'ek coca cola milega'. Her logic of thanda is revealed at pre-climax.
Raghu is always confused as he isn't sure what his heart wants thereby implying through the dialogue 'mera apne dil pe control nahi hai, jiska dil pe control nahi hota, uska life pe bhi control nahi hota'. He runs away from marriage, thinking it would end his free life (which isn't really told but that's what I decipher). On other hand, Gayatri has been in as many as 11 relationships, and she is emotionally drained out of word 'love', thereby she runs away from marriage too. We aren't shown the back stories of any of those 11 relationships, so its upto us to assume whether she was the right person in those relations or the wrong or she had both kinds.
Upto the point she agrees to marry Raghu, she was very lovable. Then, the question comes in mind, why did she run or do the same mistake Raghu already did in front of her ? I say this because among the two, she was dominating and had control over him. Most importantly, she came across as a mature girl. She could had just said, I am happy like this just like earlier she said 'love ka khayali pulaav taste karke paka ke chorh diya hai'. Did it show that despite those 11 relationships, she was still vulnerable like that moment when she breaksdown asking Raghu to leave her place as he isn't worth trusting. But if that was the case, there was a need of some proper mention of her past life.
Then, the way she is re-introduced in 2nd half to alter the plot of movie wasn't well done either. I liked the end given to her character though.
Same way Tara is lovable until she is keen to take revenge, but when she goes into a relation with Raghu, guy who left her on her marriage, it looks odd specially when she has spent some time with him and known that he won't change. But then, Tara is probably taking a chance.
There are lots of complications in both the relationships shown. Personally, I liked Raghu-Gayatri much more, that was one of reasons why I didn't like Gayatri leaving Raghu.
Jaideep Sahni's dialogue writing is superb, the story I feel in latter parts of 2nd half goes weak specially when all 3 characters face off in a marriage. Just like Raghu, as a viewer you get that awkward feeling, as to what the destiny would be now.
The songs gel very well the film. As I expected, 'Chanchal Mann' comes in starting credits with Namrata Rao's editing covering up the city of Jaipur beautifully, love that monkey shot specially among all the other montages used. Small version of this song is aptly used later in the movie again. My fav ofcourse is 'Gulabi', its very romantic and colourful.. and choreographed well too. Those slow motion frames were highlights of this song.
Performances wise, for me Sushant takes away all praises, he had the longer screen time that works in his favour, and the way he handles a guy who is romantic yet behaves like childlike, his expressions during each of the three marriage sequences were hillarious. Also the drunk scene, and his 'kya hai' dialogue. After Kai Po Che, he had set a benchmark for himself, and he lived upto that standard very well. Watch that scene where she brings Coca Cola for Tara in the marriage, and returns to see she is sitting with his ex Gayatri, he finds himself in a awkward situation with 'bachna ae haseeno' running in background forming a total opposite tone. That was one of my very fav scene in the film.
Parineeti is once again fantastic, its hard to find flaws in her acting career till now. That awkard kiss scene in bus, or the conversation with Raghu over coffee table, and the constant dissapproval followed by approval at Raghu's demands.
Vaani Kapoor looked so confident in her debut role, plus that smile she got. I was already in love with her voice, her character is weaker amongst all for me but her performance was quite much on level with other two leads.
Rishi Kapoor delivers very good supporting role, special mention to that scene where he actually gets worried about his marriage business when Raghu tells him something about it.
Overall, Shuddh Desi Romance despite all the weaknesses in the script, still ends up as a much enjoyed entertainer (in true sense). It had in it to be a classic I would say, but just fails to be one. In any case, its definately a movie I would like to re-watch inspite of the problems I have with this film.
Verdict : VERY GOOD
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2988272/
Different kind of hindi romantic movie, very real and entertaining.
Read at your own risk, the post is full of spoilers.
Maneesh Sharma (director) teams up with story writer Jaideep Sahni, and gives a film that talks about relationships in different way. The movie is set in Jaipur, where Raghu (Sushant Singh Rajput) is about to marry Tara (Vaani Kapoor), a girl he met and approved of marriage. But on his baraat bus, he realizes he isn't ready to marry yet, and he explains his story to Gayatri (Parineeti Chopra). So, he decides to run away from his marriage, leaving Tara waiting.
In normal movies, if a guy cheats and leaves girl on marriage day, she would cry or feel betrayed (which to certain extent she still does), but Maneesh presented it in restrained way adding humour touch with a person among the baraat saying 'main karne ko tyaar hoon shaadi' and thenTara asking for 'ek coca cola milega'. Her logic of thanda is revealed at pre-climax.
Raghu is always confused as he isn't sure what his heart wants thereby implying through the dialogue 'mera apne dil pe control nahi hai, jiska dil pe control nahi hota, uska life pe bhi control nahi hota'. He runs away from marriage, thinking it would end his free life (which isn't really told but that's what I decipher). On other hand, Gayatri has been in as many as 11 relationships, and she is emotionally drained out of word 'love', thereby she runs away from marriage too. We aren't shown the back stories of any of those 11 relationships, so its upto us to assume whether she was the right person in those relations or the wrong or she had both kinds.
Upto the point she agrees to marry Raghu, she was very lovable. Then, the question comes in mind, why did she run or do the same mistake Raghu already did in front of her ? I say this because among the two, she was dominating and had control over him. Most importantly, she came across as a mature girl. She could had just said, I am happy like this just like earlier she said 'love ka khayali pulaav taste karke paka ke chorh diya hai'. Did it show that despite those 11 relationships, she was still vulnerable like that moment when she breaksdown asking Raghu to leave her place as he isn't worth trusting. But if that was the case, there was a need of some proper mention of her past life.
Then, the way she is re-introduced in 2nd half to alter the plot of movie wasn't well done either. I liked the end given to her character though.
Same way Tara is lovable until she is keen to take revenge, but when she goes into a relation with Raghu, guy who left her on her marriage, it looks odd specially when she has spent some time with him and known that he won't change. But then, Tara is probably taking a chance.
There are lots of complications in both the relationships shown. Personally, I liked Raghu-Gayatri much more, that was one of reasons why I didn't like Gayatri leaving Raghu.
Jaideep Sahni's dialogue writing is superb, the story I feel in latter parts of 2nd half goes weak specially when all 3 characters face off in a marriage. Just like Raghu, as a viewer you get that awkward feeling, as to what the destiny would be now.
The songs gel very well the film. As I expected, 'Chanchal Mann' comes in starting credits with Namrata Rao's editing covering up the city of Jaipur beautifully, love that monkey shot specially among all the other montages used. Small version of this song is aptly used later in the movie again. My fav ofcourse is 'Gulabi', its very romantic and colourful.. and choreographed well too. Those slow motion frames were highlights of this song.
Performances wise, for me Sushant takes away all praises, he had the longer screen time that works in his favour, and the way he handles a guy who is romantic yet behaves like childlike, his expressions during each of the three marriage sequences were hillarious. Also the drunk scene, and his 'kya hai' dialogue. After Kai Po Che, he had set a benchmark for himself, and he lived upto that standard very well. Watch that scene where she brings Coca Cola for Tara in the marriage, and returns to see she is sitting with his ex Gayatri, he finds himself in a awkward situation with 'bachna ae haseeno' running in background forming a total opposite tone. That was one of my very fav scene in the film.
Parineeti is once again fantastic, its hard to find flaws in her acting career till now. That awkard kiss scene in bus, or the conversation with Raghu over coffee table, and the constant dissapproval followed by approval at Raghu's demands.
Vaani Kapoor looked so confident in her debut role, plus that smile she got. I was already in love with her voice, her character is weaker amongst all for me but her performance was quite much on level with other two leads.
Rishi Kapoor delivers very good supporting role, special mention to that scene where he actually gets worried about his marriage business when Raghu tells him something about it.
Overall, Shuddh Desi Romance despite all the weaknesses in the script, still ends up as a much enjoyed entertainer (in true sense). It had in it to be a classic I would say, but just fails to be one. In any case, its definately a movie I would like to re-watch inspite of the problems I have with this film.
Verdict : VERY GOOD
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