My Review on Vivaah

Vivah: My Rating 4 1/2

Its being a long time since a saw a decent movie. A movie which I can see with my family members. Vivah is, as title reads out "a journey from engagement to mairrage". Audiences will see a bit of themselves in 'Vivah'. May be not in the metros where weddings are now arranged on a contract basis and the bride is more concerned about getting her makeup and outfit rather than values. This time Sooraj Barjatya dint got a HUGE team as compared to his previous release like Hum Aapkke Hain Koun and Hum Saat Saath Hain. In fact thats the point I like in the move where whatever characters are there are given enough room to show the talent. Shaid or Amrita have never being in favorite list but they deliver good performance and do justice to the role. Alok Nath is very much around. And his contribution to the success of ‘Vivah’ can’t be ignored. Seema Viswas does justice to her role and adds a pinch of salt to the sugar and saves the movie from getting to sugary.

I don't know the fate of box office for this movie but people who cares for their values will surely love this movie despite of any box office record

In various forums people have raised various concern. Well if you guys dint like the movie that's absolutely fine as everyone has its own taste and so does you! Now coming to various points raised by you, I will try to address them.

- Prem falls in love with Poonam for no apparent reason.
If you watch movie carefully you will find that Prem knew everything about Poonam before he saw her, he was told everything about her by his father and his father was informed by Mr Bhagat (Now if you don't want to believe in your parents or your family then its your choice. At least I will believe in my parents and that's why it makes sense to me). And also she is educated, belongs to a decent family, being brought with values, AND she is beautiful. Now if you think these are not enough to justify for someone to fall in love, then I don't know what you are looking for.

- A city guy marrying a village girl.
Are you fixing up a rule that a village guys should marry village girl and city guy to city girl? Isn't it a completely ridiculous? I ask you whom you will marry? a person to whom you like or a person who is staying in city/village (wherever you are)? I don't agree with the fact that t people of city are not compatible with village and vice versa.


- All village girls are innocent and have values/Village peoples have more values than city.
Someone raised a point that comparing the Village girls as goddess is completely wrong. I 100% agree with that. Its not the Village or City girl who can be considered to be good. What matters is, the kind of teaching you got from your parents/elders, and how much you have adopted them. It can be any where, a village or a city. Its person dependent not place, and I don't think our Director ever tries to convey that village girls are like "Goddess" and city girls are "Bitches".

- How come a village girl will be compatible with a city guy?
I fully agree with the fact that success of a marriage totally depends upon compatibility. There are 2 kinds of compatibility in relationship like marriage which you see. Before marriage and after marriage compatibility. I have not been married for long to comment like an expert but compatibility factors are going to change after marriage. So there comes compromise by which you can increase your compatibility. And that's the fact behind marriages being more successful among Indians than Westerns (this applies only to those who agree with me that Indian marriages are more successful compared to marriages in western countries). So I don't advocate the idea of sleeping/staying with someone to check the compatibility before marriage (A Salaam Namste idea, just to let you know I enjoyed Salaam Namste for its humor).

- Various comments about Tradition and Culture
Someone stated that Bal Viavah (Child Mairrage) was or our tradition/culture. My suggestion, go little deeper in our history and you will find that there were co concept of Child Mairrage. A girl can choose anyone he wants to marry, it was her choice (something called as Swyamber). Just go and read some books, do some research and you will find the reason why Child Mairrage started. Also tradition changes from time to time, something which was good 1000 years ago may not be applicable now but basic things of love, affection will remain the same till there is mankind.

Main Meri Patni Aur Woh : Fresh Air

When I saw this movie for the first time, I could not believe that Bollywood can produce this kind of movie. Its fresh air from the same factory where most of the movie which come-out or remake of Hollywood movies in Bollywood style. This is a Bollywood movie but there is nothing "Bollywood" about it, except makeup of heroine (Rituparna Sengupta), in fact that was the demand of the character. This movie is close to my heart reason for its simplicity and the story it tells. That could be me you or someone else.

The film's plot revolves around an odd couple, Mithilesh Shukla (Rajpal) and his much taller, more attractive wife, Veena (Rituparna). But the story begins with showing Mithelesh as a bachelor who was responsible of marrying his brothers and sister and now he is 34. Due to the pressure from his mother and Mama ji he agrees to see the girl but he is somehow pre planned to reject the girl. But he does not want to embarrass anyone by rejecting. But when he sees the girl his embarrassment of rejecting turns in fear of getting rejected.

Like a typically average middle class man, Mithilesh does not like people being around his wife Veena. He is annoyed by people being overtly attentive to Veena every day, and desperately seeks a solution from Lord Shiva, whom he pacifies with a daily dose of milk and bananas. To add to his problem there comes an tall handsome and stylish software engineer Akash, who happens to be Veena's friend (Kay Kay Menon). Now Mitheles trouble increases, he want to be just like him, because he believes that Akash is the perfect man. What happens later is the cream of story and you got to see that by yourself, but I have one word to the movie "Wow"!

Now Rajpal yadav is in the list of my favorite actors (other are Om Puri, Nsheeruddin Shah, Amitabh Bachhan, Aamir Khan, Kay Kay Menon). So far Rajpal Yadav was doing some small time role in big budget movies but he has left his presence felt. But this movie has brought the best out of him. Thanks to Chandan Arora, who second time also took him in the lead role.

This is second movie of Editor turned Director, Chandan Arora. The first one to his credit was "Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hun". And I am eagerly waiting for his next movie.

Salman an easy escapgoat.

There are so many incident happening around and we get to see justice very now and then. But in this case even though it was not quick but justice was served. But this is somehow over exaggeration by justice department. I wish, the same way justice department worked for other cases filed against all our leaders, the biggest culprits.

I strongly feel that someone is personally settling the score with him, someone who has a very strong hold in Delhi and it will not be over estimate to say "Underworld".

I don't know the fate of this but there are so many people killing innocent people for no reason or sometimes with some silly reason. Do they get the justice? May be someday the justice department will take the similar action in such cases too.

I am not advocating Mr Salman, I am just trying to understand the ground realities. If he is guilty punish him but punish other guilty and give a lesson to those who are out there doing the same or similar crime.

I may be wrong, but you cannot rule out of the possibility of someone settling score with him . That is my opinion what do you think is some one working full time behind him or is it just his very very bad time?

Here is story from NDTV.