States is based on Chetan Bhagat’s bestseller’2 States:The Story Of My Marriage’ which is his autobiographical novel.Here too romance is cross-cultured like most movies of Bollywood.Krish Malhotra(Arjun Kapoor) is a Punjabi from Delhi whereas Ananya(Alia Bhatt) is a Tamilian from Chennai . The movie starts with the narration of story by krish to pshyciatrist.They met in the campus of IIM Ahmedabad.Soon They became a close friend.
They fell in love with each other .Director Abhishek Verman depicts the questions & imaginations arising in the mind of lovers & families.They both got high-income job after graduating from IIM & now wants to get married.They decided to bring their parents together & they made few arrangement for this but there is a cultural clash between their parents so parents oppose the weddings. Its hard for them to convince their parents for love marriage.
Arjun & Alia both have attracted young audience with their stunning acting .Krish’s mother(Amrita singh) has acted wonderfully to depicts a punjabi mother as well Ananya’s mother(Revathy) too had played her role very well as tamilian mother .Krish’s Father(Ronit roy) & Ananya’s father(Shiv Kumar Subramaniam), They too have impressed audience by their performance.Other characters like Krish’relatives too are very significant in the movie.Costume designing in every scene is done woderfully and locations of shooting is chosen carefully like IIMAcampus, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Chennai.Dialouge too are appropriate at each scene.Production designing is also done very well like campus placement scenes, marriage scenes in Delhi, marriage scenes in chennai & many others and music composed by Shanker Ehsaan Loy is fair . Director Abhishek makes a significant debut as a storyteller. It’s a must watch movie.