Shaadi Ke Side Effects....No effect on me !

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The title of this movie should have been “baby key side effects” etc., but I guess even that would have been irrelevant to the script. The movie has a few laughs for you, if you can relate to it. The story is about a steamy, romantic married couple (Farhan & Vidya), who are role models for keeping a marriage alive. It is only when they become parents that their devil selves come out and no level of masking can help it. Message of the movie “having kids can kill your marriage” and Yes! The movie has really exaggerated this.

So a perfect marriage can be destroyed with the arrival of a baby..hmm…the man goes crazy as he has to prove himself as a father, a provider and loses his own life. While the lady loses her ambition, her zest for life and a complete loss of romance. I guess these shifts have been exaggerated just to increase humor quotient. Also, I think the parenting humour was really hackneyed, gives you the feeling, I have heard this joke before. Anyways, I am not sure but when did parents rather just dads compete in a Piñata rush? Really ? we crush little children for silly Piñata contents?

Vidya Balan, one lady to look up to because she makes curvy acceptable. However, what hits you in the entire movie is the fact that most of her dresses  don’t go with her body type.  Many instances you wonder if she forgot to wear trousers or leg wear under a Kurti, I guess those garments were meant to be short dresses. I recall Shabna Azmi, Smith Patil, Nargis even Madhubala  playing very strong modern characters,  without having to resort to such extremes in their dressing styles.

All in all, I didn’t like this one for sure..not for the unmarried me!!



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