It’s been fairly a while I hadn’t seen a candy, endearing and pure love story that has its coronary heart on the proper place, popping out from Bollywood. While I entered Satyaprem Ki Katha hoping it will be one, seems it is far more than only a easy love story. Using the canvas of a love story, director Sameer Vidwans addresses an essential concern that has plagued our society for lengthy, and within the course of, he blends uncooked feelings of the younger era, conservative outlook of the aged, and the disgrace that middle-class lot has for lengthy lived with. With a superb story and concept in hand, the movie falters at locations with its execution, although it is by no means to an extent that it takes away from the purity of the story. A musical romance with a handsome lead pair — Kartik Aaryan and Kiara Advani — who’ve earlier additionally made heads flip with their chemistry in Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 – Satyaprem Ki Katha is refreshing, entertaining however by no means lets go of the sensitivity of the topic at hand.
The story begins with Satyaprem aka Sattu Aggarwal (Kartik Aaryan), an enthralling, virgin, Gujju man who hasn’t been in a position to clear his legislation exams for 3 years, has never dated a lady in his life, however regardless of being labelled as a loser, carries a coronary heart of gold. He meets Katha (Kiara Advani), a free-spirited, fashionable and outgoing lady, at a neighborhood celebration, and immediately falls for her, although he is aware of she’s method out of his league, and already in a relationship. But as destiny had it deliberate, they find yourself marrying one another. While Sattu tries arduous to woo Katha, she’s holding on to a secret that is not straightforward to let go of. How Sattu uncovers the reality and within the course of, offers Katha the braveness to return to phrases to it, shed her inhibitions and get up for herself, kinds the premise of the story.
While the primary half lacks lustre and takes too lengthy to take off, I used to be completely swayed by the quick paced second half that has quite a bit taking place and twists unfolding one after the opposite. I appreciated how Sameer wastes no time in taking us by way of a collection of boring and time-consuming flashbacks, and as a substitute, maintain us engaged within the current day and what’s taking place in that second. Also, there is no pressured try at presenting a contemporary household setup with the whole lot hunky dory, however we’re proven a sensible situation the place dad and mom and relations in a middle-class household intervene by all means if their newly married son and his spouse aren’t sleeping in the identical room.
At 2 hours 36 minutes, Satyaprem Ki Katha successfully tells the story of this couple, and offers the message it got down to. Written by Karan Shrikant Sharma, the movie by no means confuses you with heavyweight dialogues or over-the-top Gujarati strains. While there’s quite a lot of Gujarati – each in phrases and accent placed on by the characters – it effortlessly provides wit and humour to the dialogues. Ayananka Bose’s cinematography is sort of in sync with the story-line and particularly the parts shot within the spectacular Kashmir valley are merely breathtaking. On the enhancing desk, Charu Shree Roy ensures that the movie is not dragged a lot, and there’s a circulation that retains you hooked.
Having largely completed humorous elements and a few extraordinarily darkish and intense ones (Dhamaka and Freddy), Kartik’s Sattu fantastically and effortlessly blends sweetness and vulnerability. In the emotionally-charged scenes, he’s prime notch, and within the humorous ones, he’s a professional. Oh, there’s even a touch to his notorious monologue from Pyaar Ka Punchnama and that is fairly a intelligent insertion. Kiara is a show-stealer by all means. After Jugjugg Jeeyo, she as soon as once more will get to showcase a wide range of feelings and layers in her character. From a strong-headed lady who desires huge to somebody who breaks down so simply, she emotes so nicely onscreen and appears gorgeous in every body. As a pair, Kartik and Kiara jogged my memory of Raj-Simran from DDLJ — there’s one thing so pleasing and calming about their display screen presence, particularly within the emotional parts.
Among the supporting solid, Gajraj Rao as Sattu’s father is a patriarch and fairly an attention-grabbing casting. From Badhaai Ho and all different smooth and candy characters now we have seen him do, this can be a far more layered character and Gajraj does full justice to it. Supriya Pathak as Sattu’s mom would not have a lot to do for many a part of the movie, however there’s that one essential scene the place she indulges in a heartfelt dialog along with her son and tells us the best way to maintain his marriage afloat. That’s fairly transferring and makes up for the lesser display screen time Supriya will get. There’s Shikha Talsania as Sattu’s sister, however will get little or no to do within the script. Siddharth Randeria and Anuradha Patel as Katha’s dad and mom ship a good efficiency, and their parts with Kartik are in actual fact, fairly nicely written. Rajpal Yadav because the doodhwala is as wasted as you’ll be able to think about.
There are parts in Satyaprem Ki Katha that take you again in time to the 80s and 90s period the place simplistic love tales labored, and whereas narrating Sattu and Katha’s story, the director offers us much more to remain invested. 20 minutes into the movie and we see Kartik making a smashing hero entry with the tune. Minutes later, enters Kiara wanting beautiful doing these dance strikes in yet one more peppy quantity. The temper for the musical is ready proper from the start and there are a number of songs which can be nicely spaced out within the screenplay.
As Satyaprem Ki Katha ticks a lot of the packing containers within the guidelines, it might very nicely be the much-needed love story that Bollywood wanted at this level. Watch it with your loved ones and companions for there is a message for everybody and no, it will not bore you even for a bit.
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