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Reminding viewers of forgotten family values

FEEL GOOD: From Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi

Film: Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi

Cast: Eesha Koppikar, Sonu Sood

Director: Kaushik Ghatak

A mix of Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and Tapasya (remember Rakhi-Parikshit Sahni starrer film of the early 1970s?), Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi, true to Rajshri style is a feel-good film with an uneasy-to-gulp utopian situation. It is a litmus test for Rajshri itself.

It is primarily a love story woven around situations such as a father dying on the engagement day of his young daughter Chandni (Eesha Koppikar) leaving her two siblings.

Now she has to look after them till they grow up and settle in life. At stake is her own life and marriage to Prem (Sonu Sood).

It is a tale of self-respect, tolerance, sacrifice, love, hate, realisation, conflict of the old and new age blended with some beautiful songs including Neend Main Hai and Dono Nibhayain Apna Dharam.

Eesha Kopikkhar as a small town girl of Bhopal has given her best in grim situations. Sonu Sood takes the cake as the new age Prem. His smile seduces and his voice impresses.

The picturisation of songs is better than the sum of the whole film.

But the director Kaushik Ghatak seems to forget that 12 years do bring some trace of ageing and maturity on even a hardcore gym goer but here his Prem and Chandni defying a natural law.

His trained singers sing in wrong Urdu and his Muslim male tabla players Junaid (Kunal Kumar and Ritu Vasistha) wear thick line of kohl in their eyes and typical jewellery. What a typecast!

And yet he seems to have taken care of the minor details such as his middle class characters don’t change designer dresses (by Anna Sing) in every frame but repeat them.

Full of family value messages and a catchphrase “It is not about 12 years of wait but 12 years of romance”, the film leaves you moist eyed in many emotional frames.

Watch it if you aren’t tired of Rajshri’s utopian ideas on life, and watch it to remind yourself the values you may have forgotten on your way to progress and yes! keep a handkerchief ready.

RSZ

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