Review: VEERAY KI WEDDING

A Wedding Made In Hell

0.5 stars

Mini Review:

That there is a wedding, is given. And having Jimmy

Shergill in the film gives it the half star it has earned.

Jimmy bhai is earnest, but he has done this role so often,

this film offers nothing new. The music is decent, but

you’ve heard it all before. The characters of the shaadi are

so many, and so predictable, it would be better to stay in

and sleep.

Main Review:

WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO MARRY VEER?

So there are two brothers Veer (Pulkit Samrat) and Veer Ka bhai

Balli (Jimmy Shergill). Both all brawn and all heart. Veer’s way of

‘Helping’ people is to punch and kick. And bhai wants to help him

become dulha. So you begin counting shaadi scenes. But first,

meet, Geet, no, not the Geet from Bhatinda and Jab We Met,

but Geet - pretty Kriti Kharbanda, who has all the personality of a

gota covered dish rag. Then there’s her dad and his dad and their

quirks and allergies, there’s are mummy-jis and mami-jis, and

firangi mama and his sidekick and assorted other relatives so

that it can look like a wedding party. Everyone is decked up and

is loud. Did you expect anything less?

Pulkit Samrat hits the lowest point of his career in this awful

aping of Salman Khan. Every time he shows up on screen, it

looks like he’s desperate. Desperate to prove he’s an action star.

Desperate to prove he can romance a girl. Desperate to prove he

can make you laugh. You just find yourself shaking your head in

sadness. You don’t want to wonder how Veer figures out which

ATM is being burgled and shows up at the nick of time to save the

world… And that was supposed to be his ‘intro’...

JIMMY SHERGILL DESERVES BETTER

My heart goes out to Mr. Super Earnest: Jimmy Shergill. He has

reprised this ‘bhai who never gets the girl’ role in so many Hindi

films: Tanu Weds Manu, Happy Bhag Jaayegi and even Saheb

Biwi aur Gangster, he must’ve simply walked into this set and

delivered any dialogue and would do it well. But hats off to the lad.

He’s believable, even though it feels like he’s played this role

several times. His Punjabi films have better plots: Hero Naam

Yaad Rakhi, Shareek and even the silly, funny Vaisakhi List

(where he breaks jail and runs only to discover he has been

pardoned). I guess Mr. Nice Guy needs to be offered better

roles than just the jilted lover.

The music of this film is generic Punjabi wedding playlist. Loud

enough to keep you awake, but not good enough to get you to

dance in the aisles. The straw that breaks this limping shaadi ki

ghodi are the terrible comic sounds that accompany everything

‘humorous’. No. Satish Kaushik is not funny at all. His lactose

intolerance will make you puke.

(this review appears on nowrunning dot com)