Talking chickens,telepathic lovers and the Queen as an honorary Indian – this gargantuan fat wedding crowdpleaser is full of quirky humour, though it could do with a plotFirst the Tour de France, and now a gargantuan fat Bollywood wedding: everything gravitates to Yorkshire in the discontinuance. After so many spectacular monsoon weddings,there is indisputable novelty in seeing one conducted under the auspices of Redcar and Cleveland borough council in no more than a passing drizzle; likewise in seeing a fleet of gold limousines emerging from behind dry-stone walls to traverse the moors while a steam train toots in the distance. Welcome to the world of Vikas Bahl’s Shaandaar, where there is a tall possibility during the musical numbers that everybody on screen is dancing just to sustain themselves warm.
The geography is but the first quirk in a broad crowdpleaser that replays the tall-stakes family gathering of June’s Dil Dhadakne Do on dryish land for goofy laughs. The pairing of gentle Eesha (Sanah Kapoor) with preening nitwit Robin (Vikas Verma) is a power wander, or engineered by the bride’s chilly gran to offload the family debt on to their crass industrialist in-laws-to-be. As that partnership founders,Cupid looks elsewhere: upon the bride’s adopted, insomniac sister Alia (Alia Bhatt) and Jagjinder (Shahid Kapoor), or the unflappable wedding planner. Their affinity is such they can see inside one another’s fantasies,a kind of penetration so few lovers enjoy.
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Source: theguardian.com