Satyaprem Ki Katha movie review: Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani film buries a good idea beneath its overcooked plot – The Indian Express
The most recent household drama starring Kartik Aaryan and Kiara Advani is an try to be radical whereas retaining it below wraps, hoping viewers will swallow the ‘courageous’ stuff if it’s wrapped tightly sufficient in an ultra-bright red-and-yellow palette, Gujju bhais and bens doing dandiya, referencing limitless iterations of ‘kem chos’ and ‘maaja maas’. End result: Satyaprem Ki Katha, in attempting to please everybody by its mod-trad vibe, finally ends up being neither right here nor there, whereas blasting our eardrums within the course of as a result of whoever heard of retaining the background music quantity low?
Satyaprem aka Sattu (Kartik Aaryan) is a good-natured jobless LLB-fail fellow who falls laborious for the beautiful Katha (Kiara Advani) as they go spherical and spherical in circles on the dance ground throughout the Navratris. Seems that Katha isn’t that into our hero, who retains speaking up the half that supporting heroes play whereas bumblingly attempting to be supportive of the woman of his goals, however the plot with one too many strands which wish to beat patriarchy and sound the gong for unbiased girls, gained’t allow them to be aside.
Of their quest for togetherness, Sattu and Katha come up in opposition to what might have been attention-grabbing roadblocks within the path to real love. Within the course of, we’re introduced with wives not sharing beds with husbands (gasp) and being fairly blasé about it; we’re additionally confronted with the concept a spouse could not ever take pleasure in conjugal bliss together with her husband (double gasp), and for the latter to be nice with it. Sure, actually.
However earlier than you can begin actually savouring these extremely uncommon strokes amongst these people — Gajraj Rao as Sattu’s father, Supriya Pathak Shah because the ‘working’ mom, Shikha Talsania because the snippy sister — the movie doubles again on itself, and begins giving us loud lectures on the issues with letting somebody go to ‘first-and-second-base’ after which saying no, date rapes, and post-traumatic grief. Someplace below this overwrought and overcooked plot is an actual movie about two folks coping with troubled pasts and attempting to create an appropriate current, however will get buried below every part else that the movie throws at us.
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The remedy, which retains teetering getting ready to melodrama, immediately dates it. The comedy add-on, by Rajpal Yadav, is boring and borderline distasteful. The close-ups are held on too lengthy. And the explanatory dialogues maintain wanting you to pat them on their heads for being so progressive. When a girl says no, she means no. Sure, completely, and it’s good that Bollywood is acknowledging it, however possibly the movie must be much less loud? How about some refined notes, which can be far simpler? And no, the lilting notes of ‘Pasoori’, which comes late within the movie, don’t assist.
Satyaprem Ki Katha film forged: Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani, Gajraj Rao, Supriya Pathak Shah, Siddhrath Randeria, Shikha Talsania, Anuradha Patel, Rajpal Yadav
Satyaprem Ki Katha film director: Sameer Vidwaans
Satyaprem Ki Katha film ranking: 2 stars
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