Having viewed the promos, I had made up my mind to watch this one – be it a hit or otherwise. There was a certain high energy about the promos and the lead characters in the movie. It appeared everyone was dancing at the peak of their consumed dope.
From the very beginning this movie is a breath of fresh air without pretense, or attempts to make a style statement or a modified import from Hollywood to appeal to India’s aam janata; this movie is an original innovative entertainer that caters a “wedding planning” service to India’s growing super rich class. It introduces the new age designations (read wedding planner) to the aam janata and identifies the entrepreneurial mind of the youth through Shruti. As a significant by-product, it attempts to teach the values of integrity and team while starting a business venture and possibly sets the right example on ethics and morals.
One is very engaged in the story throughout and it fails to bore you. The ubersexual masculine Bittoo supersedes the metro sexual who is in touch with his feminine side – I mean for a change, it’s good to see someone play a non-Ranbir and non-Imran role who are smitten by their lady loves in APKGK and BKB respectively. It’s a refreshing change.
In short, the movie brings Bittoo and Shruti together who start a partnership business to plan and conduct weddings. They perform outrageously well as a team leveraging their business relationship with a few vendors. However, one drunken night, after a lot of crazy dancing - we all can imagine what happens. The story then succeeds into fall out of the entrepreneurial venture ‘Shaadi Mubarak’ with one last opportunity for the duo to come back together and plan a hot shot wedding. Well, though moral of the story can be easily read between the lines, the idea is to go and see this in lively colors - the story is very well featured on the big screen without being dreamy or overhyped. It also subtly handles premarital sex and a variant gender response to the same state of affairs (a one night stand). It is inarguably more complicated when the ONS is a friend you don’t wish to lose, worse yet a business partner. Of course, reel life could be more than lagging in truth from the real (given the idea of friends with benefits in prevalent in today’s world), however the responses are also very representative to a large section of male and female population. I was also very impressed with Shruti's practical stance of seeking happiness through an alternative marriage rather than being an incorrigible cry baby over broken hearted.
I have never been to Delhi so I am unsure of the real life there. All I am aware is Delhi wallas have significant amount of money and love spending it on weddings. The movie is an excellent leverage and modern tale told based on this limited information known to me. It depicts a kissing scene that takes its own time to begin and end and there is no hoo-ha or marketing gimmicks associated with it (Mallika can possibly learn something from this today!). It’s probably one of the good ones you will get to see in Bollywood. The gabroo jawan is hot and raw, while soni kudi, well – she looks very soni throughout and sizzling in the end scene (draped in saree, no ornaments – good one Mr. Stylist)! Of all the 3 starrers that did a good job of a movie and flaws that the audiences are more than happy to overlook, this story is one, that deserves an absolute 3 starrer for no mistakes to overlook and an original story line. It entertains you to the core but fails to delight hence missing a 4 starrer.
