Vivaah

It’s totally inspired from the fabulous family movie “Hum Aapke hai Kaun” but the whole essence of Vivaah has been lost due to it’s poor dialogues and the old concept of the movie which reminds us of the times wherein “A boy and girl were not allowed to meet, talk, think of each other before marriage” & If your granny/grandpa is watching this movie and by god’s grace they have changed with times even they won’t agree with this old concept as we all know now world has become a very small place where people talk, interact with various means of communication ranging from SMS, voice chat on net, emails, dating sites and much more!!

Prem (Shahid Kapoor) is the hazaron mein ek (one in a thousand) good boy from a rich family... His father (Anupam Kher) arranges Prem’s marriage with Poonam aka Bitto (Amrita Rao) - the good neice of her chacha (Alok Nath) and chachi (Seema Biswas) living in the charming town of godknowswhere. Chachi, of course, is damn jealous when over zealous chacha spends pots of money on Bitto’s wedding - she’s more concerned about her own daughter, Choti’s, marriage. "Dekhna, jab Bitto vidah hogi, sabse jyaada tum ro-ogi", predicts chacha. Accordingly, on the eve of the wedding, disaster strikes. Bitto saves Choti but gets burnt in the process. Chachi ki aankhen khul gayi. Chacha’s prediction comes true. And apna Prem still accepts her. (Wah! Wah!).

Thirty minutes would have been perfect to tell this already familiar story. Vivah, however, is a tiring 3 hour marathon of 19th century kind of a love - the two drink from the same glass, Bitto gets aroused when Prem merely kisses her hand (with sound effects, by the way), the moon shines brightly like Surya bulb in polluted Delhi, sex (or atleast making out) is implied but never done... well the list could go on. It is, however, every conservative boy’s wet dream come true.