Maybe this film could've worked if it was an hour shorter, but we'll have to see it to know it.
All stretching to a stretched out climax that is truly difficult to sit through given the director and cast. These individual experiments too are stretched out not only beyond the point that they are novel/funny/engaging but also beyond their tolerable time limit. Maybe, true to the film's theme – it was not a film, it was a business deal. I cannot shake off the big question mark – why? Why would a perfectly sane director go about doing this? You can't even call this experimentation because individually every thing that the film does has been done before. Undoubtedly, it is a mish-mash of ideologies, of film-making aesthetics. Shaandaar also tries to trot about like a woman-empowering Queen, but doesn't manage to do that without her male leads.
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Women wanting to break free from the label, “obese”. Men wanting breaking free from their mother's tyranny.
While the trailer portrays the film quite literally as a fairy-tale romance, and the film leads you on with animated frogs, clouds, in the beginning. Similarly, Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt are great on screen together and could have had chemistry, had the writing allowed for it. Some scenes with the real-life father-son duo were delightful indeed. Pankaj Kapoor has his own brand of restraint that he brings here too. Shahid Kapoor himself with a very cursorily written character does a composed knight in shining armour with small weaknesses of his own. So be it.Īlia Bhatt bring her casual coolness to screen that is charming and you completely relate with Shahid Kapoor when he can't take his eyes off her. A shame though that the music doesn't live up to the craziness that the Vikas Bahl- Amit Trivedi duo had done an awesome job the last time they got together. It has been a long, long while since lyrics have caught my attention and kept it there. What does work is the lead performances – Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Pankaj Kapoor and the songs' lyrics. And just in case you are wondering – no, it doesn't work.