Here it is the woman who teaches the man the true meaning of being a man. This is one of the fewĬommercial films with a message. You laugh and at times even feel like you are tearing up.
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The film is entertaining and full of light hearted moments along with some cute ones. Full credit to the director (Shashank Khaitan ) for making a film which could easily have become stretched ,boring and foolish into a realistic and believable film. He is adamant on getting married to her, she wants to get a job and prove her worth to her family. You are straight away transported into the world of Badrinath Bansal aka Badri (Varun Dhawan ) and Vaidehi Trivedi (Alia Bhatt) ,characters that will stick with you. Review: The film is set in the heartland of India. How does their love story play out in a patriarchal society? Story: A Whimsical boy from Jhansi has his heart set on a headstrong girl from Kota. Yash Sinha and Shweta Basu Prasad (Yes! She makes a comeback to the silver screen) as Badri’s brother and sister-in-law pull of a fairly good act too.Cast: Alia Bhatt ,Varun Dhawan,Sahil Vaid ,Akanksha Singh ,Shweta Basu Prasad,Sukhmani Lamba Sahil Vaid as Somdev, Badri’s bestie does a great job. Her chemistry with Varun is adorable too. She is luminous in all frames and does a good job as the fiery Vaidehi. He is slightly weaker in the emotional scenes and his Jhansi dialect fumbles in a few places.Īlia Bhatt lights up the screen with her beauty. His comic timing is spot on and I would say he has that fine balance of coming across as notorious yet cute. Varun Dhawan as Badri does a fairly good job. Badrinath Ki Dulhania Review: Star Performance The first half is laden with funny dialogues and the second half is saved for emotinal and social impact. On certain occasions, you also get a Namastey London kind of feel, especially since Vaidehi is smart and how she tackles Badri’s intellect.
In terms of relationships, it’s nice to see how Khaitan shows the conflict of loving someone and yet maintaining one’s self respect in place being a challenge to particularly our generation. Particularly one scene, where he puts her in the dicky of a car should have been omitted. There will be many who will raise questions over Badri’s stalking shown to be a way of him wooing her problematic. Yes! It’s a funny scene but powerful with the underlined message.Ĭomic elements such as the conversations between Badri and his friend Somdev ( Sahil Vaid) make up for a fun watch. In some scenes, Khaitan makes it too obvious, like the scene where Vaidehi saves Badri from being molested in Singapore. We have celebrated films like Chak De! India and Pink where one man stands up for women to realize their potential but Badrinath is about how a damsel doesn’t need to be saved. Questioning this concept, Khaitan’s film is a take on how a woman’s attitude (in this case Vaidehi) impacts in changing Badri’s life or making him a better individual. A boy is an asset and a girl child is a liability for most. Using this to his advantage, Shashank Khaitan tries to make a rom-com that is light in its approach but deep down has a strong message to deliver.īadrinath very rightly takes off by narrating the meaning of gender roles in India.
There’s a loud cheer from the audience for both Varun and Alia’s entry and that’s a sign how loved they are when it comes to pre-teens. Badrinath Ki Dulhania Review Badrinath Ki Dulhania Review: Script AnalysisĪt a Friday morning show, when you find half a college classroom in your auditorium, you know you’re watching a rom-com. Pre-interval a major twist takes place and Badri and Vaidehi have a massive fallout. Will love blossom again between the two conflicting personalities is what lies ahead. In the meantime, Badri keeps trying to impress her. After he proposes marriage to her, Vaidehi first declines and later tries to befriend him, at least to set up her elder sister’s marriage through his help. She’s like a firecracker and that an ambitious one. His father is patriarch who doesn’t want his daughter-in-law to work in spite of she being cleverer than his elder son.Īt a wedding in Kota, Badri lays eyes on Vaidehi Trivedi ( Alia Bhatt) and is smitten by her spunky attitude. Badrinath Bansal ( Varun Dhawan) considers himself to be one of the most eligible bachelors of Jhansi, thanks to his father’s financial standing.