Mere Brother Ki Dulhan is full on masti. Rocking-shocking, gaane-shaane, full time pass and paisa wasool. Like a roller coaster It starts very high on fun and the ride after that just keeps on getting better and better till the end. The comedy is very cool and not at all cheap (so obviously those audience who love Salman Khan comedy will be very disappointed). The locations are very dynamic and varies from Agra’s Taj Mahal to Delhi’s Chawari Bazaar including valleys of Dehradun and a bird’s eye view of London. Very hard work has been done by both the cast as well as the crew.
I would like to pinpoint the following highlights:
1. Sound Department - An awesome job has been done by this department. If the movie is a cake then they are the cherry. Their work is noticeable in all the fields, be it Sound Mixing, Background Score or Original Songs. All the songs of the movie, be it Rock (Dhunki), Pop (Mere Brother Ki Dulhan) or Qawali (Isq Risk), are very catchy. I have been watching movies in this theater since it was built two years ago and only today I found out that it has got speakers on ceiling too, as in one scene a single voice comes directly from above your head. Such was the precision of sound in this movie. All heads turned up at once, amazing.
2. Cinematography - Sudeep Chatterjee has done a great job in capturing as much as his camera can hold. He has made the scenes look so vibrant that they speak for themselves. Shooting the moving objects is the most difficult task and he has done that on numerous occasions (Mere Brother Ki Dulhan song on moving train, Dhunki song on moving lorry and jeeps etc.) in this movie, that too with outstanding results.
3. Performances - Imran Khan’s performance is as usual, which is to say damn good. Katrina Kaif has also done a good job, although I personally think that Priyanka Chopra must have done a better job here. I am saying nothing against Katrina here. I myself like Katrina’s performances a lot and she did everything she could have done. It was just a requirement mismatch on side of the casting director. More like fitting a square for a circle. The rest of the cast have also done a good job. No one is out of line under the direction of Ali Abbas Zafar.
The lowlights (although there are not many):
1. Story - The story line is no doubt an obvious low. It is a traditional Yash Raj wedding special story line used in many movies (Band Baaja Baraat, Neal ‘n’ Nikki, Dilwaale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge etc.). Hero meets heroine in the first half, spends time with her, does not realize that he is in love until it is too late and she is getting married to someone else. In second half he confronts her, accepts his love for her, tries to marry her and succeeds in the end. Very typical.
2. Choreography - Although it is not bad at all, but Bosco and Ceaser have not nearly lived up to the standards set by Vaibhavi Merchant in Band Baaja Baraat.
Overall it is a very cool movie which can be viewed age independently. If you enjoy light hearted romance-comedy, then you are bound to enjoy more than you spent. A one time watch for sure, but if someone will ask me to watch it again, I will be more than happy to oblige. Hence, I rate it as follows:
Entertainment rating: 3.5
Critic’s rating: 2.5
I would like to pinpoint the following highlights:
1. Sound Department - An awesome job has been done by this department. If the movie is a cake then they are the cherry. Their work is noticeable in all the fields, be it Sound Mixing, Background Score or Original Songs. All the songs of the movie, be it Rock (Dhunki), Pop (Mere Brother Ki Dulhan) or Qawali (Isq Risk), are very catchy. I have been watching movies in this theater since it was built two years ago and only today I found out that it has got speakers on ceiling too, as in one scene a single voice comes directly from above your head. Such was the precision of sound in this movie. All heads turned up at once, amazing.
2. Cinematography - Sudeep Chatterjee has done a great job in capturing as much as his camera can hold. He has made the scenes look so vibrant that they speak for themselves. Shooting the moving objects is the most difficult task and he has done that on numerous occasions (Mere Brother Ki Dulhan song on moving train, Dhunki song on moving lorry and jeeps etc.) in this movie, that too with outstanding results.
3. Performances - Imran Khan’s performance is as usual, which is to say damn good. Katrina Kaif has also done a good job, although I personally think that Priyanka Chopra must have done a better job here. I am saying nothing against Katrina here. I myself like Katrina’s performances a lot and she did everything she could have done. It was just a requirement mismatch on side of the casting director. More like fitting a square for a circle. The rest of the cast have also done a good job. No one is out of line under the direction of Ali Abbas Zafar.
The lowlights (although there are not many):
1. Story - The story line is no doubt an obvious low. It is a traditional Yash Raj wedding special story line used in many movies (Band Baaja Baraat, Neal ‘n’ Nikki, Dilwaale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge etc.). Hero meets heroine in the first half, spends time with her, does not realize that he is in love until it is too late and she is getting married to someone else. In second half he confronts her, accepts his love for her, tries to marry her and succeeds in the end. Very typical.
2. Choreography - Although it is not bad at all, but Bosco and Ceaser have not nearly lived up to the standards set by Vaibhavi Merchant in Band Baaja Baraat.
Overall it is a very cool movie which can be viewed age independently. If you enjoy light hearted romance-comedy, then you are bound to enjoy more than you spent. A one time watch for sure, but if someone will ask me to watch it again, I will be more than happy to oblige. Hence, I rate it as follows:
Entertainment rating: 3.5
Critic’s rating: 2.5
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