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Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar Review
Shaadi Karke
Phas Gaya Yaar
Review :
Salman, Shilpa put up
spirited show in 'Shaadi...'
By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service
Rating: **
Film: "Shaadi Karke
Phas Gaya Yaar"; Cast: Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty; Director:
K.S. Adhiyaman;
You might want to check this week's late-riser for the crackling
and hissing chemistry between the lead pair.
As a couple that finds its dreams of romantic togetherness
ruptured by the demands of a joint family, Salman Khan and
Shilpa Shetty put up a spirited show. Shilpa is
especially effectual in putting across the dilemma of a newly
married woman who must adjust to her husband's joint family.
The characters, though garish, do provide some moments of
unbridled entertainment. The dialogues are sometimes crisp and
cutting.
Watch the sequence where Salman quietly explains to his
obstinate wife why she mustn't come down in the family hall in
her nightclothes. "Because the doodhwala and the
servant have only one thing in mind - sex," Salman drawls.
The moments between the couple frequently ring true. And when
Shilpa flashes her eyes in domestic defiance, she even does a
drunken song at a party to humiliate her
husband and his family, you know this woman means business.
The theme of the pampered bride's coming-of-rage in her in-laws'
family isn't novel. We've seen Jaya Bhaduri do it in "Kora Kagaz"
and we've seen Shilpa attempt the role in "Dhadkan".
At the end of day, however, "Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar"
suffers a congenital fatigue induced by a huge time lapse
between launch and release.
To his credit, director Adhiyaman does have his own take on
marriage, trust and joint-family problems. We saw him do the
domestic-skirmish theme with pulpy élan in "Hum Tumhare Hain
Sanam".
Things don't fall apart in this marital drama. But they barely
hold together. And there's no reason to see this film unless you
are a diehard fan of the lead pair who instil a
shred of believability into their dangerously unidimensional
characters.
The supporting cast is strictly cardboard -- from the heroine's
ultra-snobbish mother (Supriya Karnik) and henpecked husband (Shakti
kapoor) to the woman's divorcee friend (Kunika) and the
unintentionally hilarious judge (Shoma Anand), who gives the
divorcing couple some reprieve.
Since the wife is pregnant during divorce, the husband is
allowed to be with her until the baby is born.
Stork value .
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