It never darts into the embarrassing moments of 90s Bollywood, but it hits all the right notes for the ending credits in Dard Karaara. However, Sandhya tries hard and everyone else try to make the most of it making Dum Laga Ke Haisha skate away from run-of-the-mill rom-com territory to settle as a modern dramedy of 90s aesthetics. This time around, one of Bollywood’s candy-makers YRF lets filmmaker Sharat Katariya (who was one of the writers in Titli) work with a certain cast of pedigree– Sanjay Mishra and Seema Pahwa both had a successful 2014 with the critically-acclaimed Ankhon Dekhi, and outsider relatively-new-face in town Ayushmann Khurrana who hit it big with the 2012 surprise hit Vicky Donor, for a story about an arranged marriage between a high-school drop out boy and an overweight educated girl set in 1995 Haridwar to bring on the best of 90s Bollywood Anu Malik music and Kumar Sanu’s voice.įor this they also introduced Bhumi Pednekar, an assistant casting director for YRF, as the caring straight-forward no-BS Sandhya who is stuck in a marriage from hell because her hubby Prem (Khurrana) doesn’t find her attractive. Yup, in an industry that’s so focused on looks, I even have a hard time thinking of an overweight male lead, so I guess- Kevin James, props to ya. If we switch to television, we only recently got Mike & Molly - McCarthy’s hogging the market and Hollywood doesn’t know anyone else - and further back with Drop Dead Diva… and further back with latino fat-suit hit Mi Gorda Bella, which was ultimately remade into the mandatory Mexican version Llena de Amor, a Malaysian one titled Manjalara, and India’s very own Dekho Magar Pyaar Se. I have a hard time thinking right off the bat in mainstream films with an overweight (or slightly one) female lead- Hairspray comes to mind, of course, as does (kinda) Muriel’s Wedding, some of Queen Latifah’s or (as of lately) Melissa McCarthy’s starrers though less highbrow or popular than the others, later we get to the fat-suit ones like the fan favorite Korean rom-com 200 Pounds of Beauty or Johnnie To’s early millennium Love on a Diet. Alternative English Title: My Big Fat BrideĬast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Sheeba Chaddha
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