![]() ![]() When it begins to strike 'reformist' postures half way through and goes the whole hog with them post-intermission, it runs a touch ragged. Rocky Randhawa and Rani Chatterjee's love story sets off a chain of events that is entertaining to an extent till the point that the film refrains from taking itself too seriously. Predictably, a few of the hackneyed ideas that are propounded by one of the two families are torn to shreds in the battle that erupts when a flashy Punjabi boy (Ranveer Singh) who wears his heart on his sleeves meets a sedate Bengali career girl (Alia Bhatt) with a Columbia University degree. The Bengali brood is made up of three women from three generations and a man who makes a living as a Kathak guru. In the orthodox Punjabi business family, a matriarch (Jaya Bachchan) calls the shots, her arrogant son (Aamir Bashir) scowls and growls in perfect concert with her whims, but the other women in the household - the man's wife (Kshitee Jog) and daughter (Anjali Anand) have no agency. The two families that reside in these buildings are so different from each other that they could be from different planets. On the other is Chatterjee House, a no less impressive bungalow in (as we are tangentially told) in South Delhi. On one side is Randhawa Paradise, a sprawling mansion somewhere in National Capital Region. ![]() Faded chestnuts abound in this tale of modernity squaring off against tradition in a very physical form and in very obvious ways. It makes rather heavy weather of both although in the matter of taking cracks at unmasking patriarchy, outdated notions of masculinity and cultural chauvinism, it does deliver a few pointed home truths.īut what takes away much of the film's sheen are a whole bunch of cliches. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, written by Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan and Sumit Roy, aims to deliver a mix of hearty laughs and 'useful' marital advice. ![]()
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