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Humpty Sharma ki Dulhaniya


The best thing to happen in a movie is when you totally know where the storyline is headed and yet you are glued…
What enchanting youngsters Alia Bhat and Varun Dhawan are! Simply amazing. They are good friends and the chemistry shows on screen. There isn’t a wrong step taken or a false note struck. Rest assured that you won’t get a love story that shall go on to become a classic or a love story that shall be sticky and cloying. This one is pure fun. Shashank Khaitan, the director has done a brilliant job and is aided so ably by the two youngsters. The characters are so lovable and so much fun that you just don’t miss a crackling script. The dialogues are hilarious and I found myself laugh out aloud time and time again. The sequences between Humpty and his silly friends made me feel that I am in the lobby of my college when it is time to go home. The repartee is natural, unforced and has somehow managed to stay away from vulgarity even though there are plenty of innuendos. Kudos team!
The narrative is fast paced and doesn’t lag anywhere in the entire movie. The visuals are not a big part of the movie and have been kept simple and rustic. The characters are so believable and are never over the top. The humor is neither screechy nor slapstick. And although the cast is an ensemble the protagonists rule the roost. You just can’t look away from those two. I didn’t think much of Varun Dhawan in SOTY and so skipped his Main Tera Hero… But he has made a fan of me in this one and I think that I most certainly want to see more of him. Alia is competent and pretty and as always had me rooting for her. She is without a doubt the one to watch out for….. How she  shuttles between brilliance in Highway and frothiness (is that a word? J ) in this one is a mark of talent.
The two friends that Humpty has are so good, as is Siddharth Shukla. This was a very tiny role for him but good exposure nonetheless. Of the remaining cast, just about anyone could have played any character. That is to say that the remaining cast didn’t have very well etched characters and even Ashutosh Rana fails to impress. But that just doesn’t matter….
The music and the songs fit in seamlessly and are already quite popular…
Go and watch this one and make your weekend cheerful and fun!


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