This is not the year for big Hindi movies. But small movies(HUNTERR, MANJHI, KIS KISKO PYAR KARUN, TALVAR, PYAR KA PUNCHNAMA 2) have made handsome gains. SHAANDAAR is another insipid movie adding to the long list of big-budgeted failed fare. It’s totally artificial and forced.
A grandmother matriarch Sushma Seth(repeating dadi act of HUM LOG, KAL HO NA HO) has a son Pankaj Kapur with two daughters - Sanah(real-life one with second wife Supriya Pathak) and illegitimate / adopted Alia Bhatt. Fatty Sanah is getting married to Vikas Verma. The only thing fat and beefy(no beef pun intended here) r it’s bride and grrom. There is a marriage organiser Shahid Kapoor, who falls for Alia. And it is all a big fat Kapur family show not to say a wedding.
Karan Johar doesn’t want you to forget his KOFFEE WITH KARAN so he too walks in as a guest at mehndi ceremony and conducts MEHNDI WITH KARAN! This is horror no 2 in acting after his BOMBAY VELVET. Wish he sticks to directing that also was a success due to SRK. Acting is not his cup of coffee. And if he wishes, he too should get married - to either a man or a woman - of his choice. It is rather too late in the day. There is a’gay’ chachu keeping up with Karan’s preferences. The usual suspects, I mean the characters of a KJo movie r all here.
Shahid at 34 has already missed the bus of 100+ cr movie. Critical acclaim and good acting is fine but commercial crowning is utmost important. VIVAH and JAB WE MET were good but he is slowly degenerating to stupidities like SHAANDAAR. Plus his beard doesn’t add to the fun element. A hit movie is a hit movie. He should think a career revival strategy pronto or he’ll be a history. The three Kapoors must have come at the price of half to Karan to organise this Kapur family show. Real life father-son have pseudo chemistry on-screen. BS. Shahid has more half siblings in his life than hits in his career. Poor guy!
Alia must have done this to appease her mentor Karan. She displays no visible chemistry with Shahid. She has age on her side so this idiotic fare won’t reflect on her. Rest, she should learn acting like Sonam Kapoor. Otherwise, histories r always a regular fare in Bollywood where short-lived careers r concerned.
This movie is not a KING to complement the QUEEN. It is a movie that has been made as money was readily available. And that shows. Actually it stinks like sh.t.big time. Dialogs r bland and the movie could’ve done without songs. Actually, v can do without this movie. It is a totally yuppy fare. Crass display of raeesi without class attached to it.
There was SHAAN(1980) and there is SHAANDAAR now! I should stick with tea instead of coffee! This is actually chillar party(Don’t confuse it with Salman’s kiddo movie). There is useless animation in the movie that walks but the movie itself is dead! So, it is walking dead. Actually waking dead as the hero heroine r insomniac. Needless to say, this SHAANDAAR is not jaandaar. As the movie is releasing on Dashehra( which is the winning of good over evil), wonder what its fate would be - good or bad, Ram or Ravan? But the result is known.
So, stay away from this and repeat watch PYAR KA PUNCHNAMA 2! That was a sound relief.