SHUDDH DESI ROMANCE:
Released on 6th September’2013 during
festive occasion of GANESH CHATURTHI deals with the increasing and serious fear
of commitment in relationship among the youth.The film has a backdrop of Jaipur
city and marriage ceremonies.Story revolves around the life and relationship
confusions of three characters Raghuram(Sushantsingh Rajput),Gayatri(Parineeti
Chopra) & Tara(Vaani Kapoor).
Raghu is a tourist guide in Jaipur who also
helps as a hired fake guest in marriage ceremonies arranged by Goelji(Rishi
Kapoor).On way to his own wedding venue,he meets Gayatri who has also joined
the group of Goelji as a fake guest.Raghu is very much confused on his decision
of getting married and confesses the same to Gayatri.He also gets attracted to
Gayatri by the independent way she leads her life.They get into a long
conversation and also get physically attracted in the journey.This gives him
the guts to escape from his marriage leaving his would be bride Tara in an
awkward situation.
Two weeks later Raghu and Gayatri meet each
other in the markets of Jaipur.Things start working in between them and they
start dating each other eventually getting into a live-in relationship.As time
proceeds they feel like getting married to each other and again arrives the
fear of commitment in both of their minds. But this time Goelji make Raghu
understand to believe in marriage constitution and Raghu finally makes up his
mind to get married to Gayatri.But to his and everybody’s surprise this time
Gayatri runs from the venue leaving behind Raghu in a shocked condition.
Some days later when Raghu is again on his way
to a wedding venue as a fake guest,he meets Tara & realizes that it is her
cousin’s wedding ceremony.He has a guilt feeling for his earlier behavior but
surprisingly at this time Tara approaches Raghu with an intention of taking
revenge but they get attracted towards each other and get into relationship. Finally
Raghu makes up his mind and decides to propose her for marriage and at that
very moment Gayatri re-enters his life. Gayatri’s re-entry again leaves Raghu
in a confused state of mind and develops the same fear of commitment.
What is the outcome of this confusion? Does
Raghu succeed in proposing to Tara or does he prefer to go back to Gayatri or
as usual he runs away from this situation. The audience should watch the film
to enjoy this confusion.
The film is directed by Maneesh Sharma who has
earlier directed Band Bajaa Baarat and Ladies V/S Ricky Behl.According to me the
writer(Jaideep Sahni)& the director succeeds in creating the environment of North Indian
marriage ceremonies like earlier we experience in Band Bajaa Baarat.One of the
minute detailing to mention is the guy rubbing his ass with a knife and using
the same for cutting potatoes.
Surely the film reflects the mindset of youth
& the confusion between the thin line of attraction and love.Youth enjoy
live in relationships but when it gets to commitment they try to escape from it
as they have the fear of loosing their freedom. The writer director has taken
the liberty of not including the family members of all the three main lead
characters. In a cultural city like Jaipur, marriage ceremonies cannot happen
without their families getting involved.Raghu is an orphan but the same liberty
cannot be digested in case of other two female characters.This in a way gives
the characters the freedom to escape from the marriages.Tara’s reaction when
Raghu escapes from marriage is very much composed which makes her character
matured enough but then her approach to Raghu for revenge lacks conviction.One
cannot get convinced,when Gayatri leaves Raghu in their marriage ceremony and
later when he again comes in front of her she gets attracted to him and
provokes him to leave Tara.It seems that the writer-director suddenly got
confused where to take the characters post interval.
Editing by Namrata Rao is nice ,Cinematography
by Manu Anand is beautiful.The song “GULABI” is worth mentioning. Sushantsingh
Rajput portrays his confused character of Raghuram flawlessly,Vaani Kapoor is
refreshing and performs at ease.Parineeti Chopra portrays her carefree attitude
well.Her performance resembles a lot with ISHAQZAADE’s character.100% marks to
Rishi Kapoor for Goelji’s character.
To sum up (according to me)SHUDDH DESI ROMANCE
is recommended to those who believe in live-in relationship & the fans of
Sushantsingh Rajput and Parineeti Chopra.
(KD)rating: **
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