My first instinct to audiences is ‘Yes go watch it!’ Director Maneesh Sharma’s Band Baaja Baraat may not be a wildly original concept for the Yash Raj banner or vividly thick with complex cinematic plots, but they’ve cleverly based their marketing campaigns on the standard Indian ideology of ‘who doesn’t enjoy shaadi ka dhamaal?’ Just basic simple entertainment is what the film provides, a refreshing new face of semi stud Ranveer Singh who delivers brilliantly for a new comer and Anushka Sharma who is consciously carving a non-glam niche role for herself in her last two films.
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| Shaadi Mubarak! |
The flick is about the story of wedding planners who start off with humility in the lower middle class gallis (lanes) of purani (old) Dilli (Delhi) and strive hard to make it big. As fate/Yash Raj, would have it one drunken night leads the hero, heroine into each others arms and beds thereby creating the only twist to this 3 hour film where they post the interval, struggle against their own emotions to finally kiss happily ever after. In the interim are of course 2 to 4 shaadis (weddings) and co-ordination hassles which keep the audience riveted.
What was interesting was the complete authentication of the depiction and language of the middle class Delhi youth, their dialect is a cross between Hindi and Punjabi along with a heavy slang. Ranveer’s character, Bittoo Sharma is from Saharanpur and Anushka’s character is the feisty Shrutti Kakkad who is ambitious and the brain behind their event management company ‘ Shaadi Mubaarak’. Since the placement is old Delhi, the designing of the garish set and the outfits are pretty similar. Anushka sports well fitted salwars and patialas through the film along with trendy causeway woollen stoles and light jhumkas.(earings) As for Ranveer, since he plays a tapoorish (indisciplined) sort of character, bling shirts, a purple velvet jacket and boyish uncombed locks reflects his personality aptly. Use of sequined fabric popularly called ‘ Tikli’ is generously used in the film. Heavy jari, (embroidery) flowers and beaded dupattas are the flavour of the wedding season. Make up is sublte and nudish showcasing the simplistic characters of the plot, there is a stage number just about okay to groove to but the hit single is Ainvayi Ainyayi which has a brilliant melody to it.
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| Exciting Exchanges |
A stage like setting and extra bling is the best way to describe the mood of the film, nothing brilliant but still refreshing enough and worth a watch.
My Rating: 2.5/5
By: Lily Shroff
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