Film review: Vivah

Film: Vivah

Rating: 2.5/5

Director: Sooraj Barjatya

Producer: Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Rajkumar Barjatya, Ajit Kumar Barjatya

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Anupam Kher, Alok Nath, Seema Biswas.

Poonam (Amrita Rao) is an upper middle class girl who lives in the small town of Madhupur with her uncle (Alok Nath) and his family. Where on one hand her uncle has fostered fatherly love on her, her chachi (Seema Biswas) has been unable to accept Poonam as their own child because she is more beautiful than her own daughter Rajni (Amrita Prakash).

Poonam's simple and affectionate demeanor touches the heart of Bhagat ji (Manoj Joshi), who plays the role of a matchmaker. Bhagat ji takes Poonam's marriage proposal to Mr. Harish Chandra (Anupam Kher), a renowned and affluent New Delhi businessman, for his son Prem (Shahid Kapoor).

Prem is a young, soft spoken, charming and well-educated scion of the Chandra family. Prem is initially taken aback by the idea of marriage and feels he is too young for marriage and needs to focus on his career first. Nonetheless he is respectful to his father's wish and agrees to meet Poonam.

What follows is the initial meeting arranged by the two families wherein Prem and Poonam get engaged- to be married in six months. Their initial meetings and conversations seem too naively carved to be true. In fact one really wonders whether relationships do build up in such a manner in today's age... with sequences like the girl not asking the boy any questions in their first meeting and only blushing away and later with the boy asking the girl to meet him on the terrace in the night. True, the initial awkwardness may be there, but surely youngsters today are very curious to know about the lives of their soul mates.

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