The dandiya type beats, the mandolins and trumpets - one wonders if the makers missed a trick by not inserting a Govinda guest appearance. He feels at home (maybe at times literally) when he channels Govinda in a song like Aashiq Surrender Hua, that seems to have specially composed to revive that era.
He feels at home when his brother accuses him of playing Hum Aapke Hain Kaun with a girl at a wedding. From various off-screen appearances and sheer weight of his pedigree, the man is a 90s and trashy Bollywood tragic. Varun Dhawan? We know from Badlapur that Dhawan can act but like the aforementioned Parineeti Chopra, there is a problem in telling when Dhawan is playing a character and when he is playing himself. We don't know what the brief to her was but she is Madhuri Dixit and Sridevi of the 90s rolled into one - at least in this film - and she wears that Patakha Guddi tag like a badge of honor. But more than the level of performance, is there anyone in the industry who can effortlessly balance the sensibilities of today's Hindi cinema and also that of 90s? Parineeti Chopra can probably do that era just as well but can she do both? Only Bhatt can be that temple going small town girl (Khaitan's are those now rare breed of Hindi films that have heroines going to temples and young women wanting sanskaari husbands) and also the firecracker that cautions the titular hero from taking another step towards her, all in the same film.
What is even an Alia Bhatt disappointing performance? Nobody knows. Now that the franchise is two films old, it seems like Khaitan's job was half done just by getting the casting right.Īlia Bhatt? Now it is only news when Bhatt gives a disappointing performance. While Humpty Sharma had its tongue firmly in its cheek when it harked back to that era of cinema and especially, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Badrinath tries to unsettle the philosophy of that cinema offering some corrections and revisions along the way.
He's made a spiritual sequel to Humpty Sharma, solidifying the Dulhania franchise.Ĭhristened Badrinath Ki Dulhania, it has the same leads,the same sidekick and for half of its run, it is the same energizer bunny that runs on the kind of repartee championed by Badrinath Bansal (Varun Dhawan) and Vaidehi Trivedi (Alia Bhatt). It is like a tattoo that he wears with pride, showing it off to his friends at the drop of a hat. Little did we know how much it is ingrained in Khaitan.
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