Dil Dhadakne Do ! Kiskey Liyeh?

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So who does my heart beat for in this movie? Surprisingly it is not really the younger star cast, rather it was Anil Kapoor and Shefali Shah who are the highlights of this movie. The story is about the Mehra’s who are out to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary on a cruise with friends and family. Along the way, on this fun and hilarious journey, a few secrets are unearthed, love is lost and found, and finally the family rediscovers each other.

For some reason, the characters of Anil Kapoor and Shefali Shah reminded me of Richard Gere and Meryl Streep in the Arbitrage- an affluent couple in the middle of both a financial, as well as a family crises. In his Grays, yet very dapper, Kamal Mehra(Anil Kapoor) & the very poised Neelam Mehra (Shefali Shah ) are the very typical high society Delhi couple that lead a superficial modern life masking their hypocritical traditional values. Ranveer Singh’s character, in most of his movies is rather zany, and so it is in this one, but with a tinge of nativity and sweetness, I can actually call his character (Kabir Mehra), adorable. Priyanka Chopra plays the role of Ayeesha Mehra- a brilliant and classy business woman on one hand, and a submissive daughter and wife on the other. Anushka & Farhan play disappointingly shorter roles, that of the love interests of the Mehra siblings. The casting of the other smaller characters has been done with a lot of detail and they go perfectly well with the overall “opulence feel” and “comical screenplay” of the movie

The movie is fun to watch and entertaining but is it as good as Zoya’s previous ones? I would say No! I feel a few characters were not utilized well and that I would have liked a few flashback scenes (of Farhan) than a Dog narration. A special appearance of Aamir than his voice-over to a dog would have worked for me ;). The movie builds you a nice mood, and so I have no complaints!