My review: Shuddh Desi Romance
Director Maneesh Sharma seems to have caught up with his "Band Baaja Baaraat" mold. Bands, Baajas and Baaraats form the backdrop of his third movie "Shuddh Desi Romance" as does the bathroom and toilets. As the movie happens in Jaipur, every other scene you see the actors savoring various signature delicacies of the region. Maneesh seem to have oral fixation for either his characters are shown munching the street food or each others lips in alternate scenes. And after that they end up in the toilet as expected which plays an important part in the movie.
"Shuddh Desi Romance" focuses mainly on the commitment phobia that is fast becoming very common among the urban youth of our country. Just a couple of weeks back a Telugu movie "Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha " handled the subject beautifully But here Maneesh seem to have taken the convenient route and hence as result the movie fails to make the desired impact it ought to have created otherwise if he has threaded with more seriousness. In the end the movie just passes muster ending up as an average fair, almost a comical documentary on the commitment phobia.
Initially the language, the backdrop, the setting and the light-hearted feel kindles interest in the viewers. But as the movie progresses into the second half, everything becomes repetitive, monotonous and redundant, hence movie gets a bit boring. In the end, the makers have opted for a convenient ending which totally goes out of place from the promising start.
Sushanth Singh Rajput is good as a naive, confused and at times irritating Raghuram, a small town youth in eternal state of dilemma. Parineeti Chopra actually steals the show, overshadowing everyone else with her sparkling screen presence and performance. Vaani Kapoor is pleasant looking and does her part credibly. Rishi Kapoor gets lots of good one-liners that makes the audience laugh at many places.
"Gulabi" is an awesome melody that is already ruling the youtube and the music charts. Rest of the songs are usual routine Bollywood fare. Music is by Sachin-Jigar.
After a slew of impressive line-ups Jaideep Sahni's writing slips a bit this time. Though the movie somehow manages to grab the eyeballs throughout the length of it, one does gets a feeling of missing something in the end. May be this itself might eventually be enough for the movie to click at the box-office, considering some of the most awful movies like "Yeh Jawani hai Deewani" and "Chennai Express" have made it big this year already.
On the whole, "Shuddh Desi Romance" is better then some of the dreadful blockbusters of the year so far but still falls way short of what it promises in the beginning due to a redundant screenplay.
Bottomline: A story of bands, baajas, baaraats and toilets.
3/5
1 comment:
With a caption 52% conservative families will not turn up to the theatres by Aditya chopra. How can he expect the film to do a box office hit. Though its the first film after the expiry of Yash chopra the legend.
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