![]() ![]() This is a movie world where things happen, only so that a flashback can be unfurled.Īnd so after Suhasini Mulay's character reinforces her royal status by referring to the Main Gate as ' Mukhya Dwaar,' we are taken through poor Laaddoo's story - about how he came to know Laali, wooed her, impregnated her, left her, re-pursued her, and now stood there trying to deny her wedding-day happiness. It is the kind of plot line that sometimes gets fine actors excited.Īnd here, these actors arrive, one after the other, big grins and whoops abound, all slow-mo.Ī revelation occurs, and the narrative shifts between a random present and an arbitrary past. ![]() The film is essentially one giant conceit (two lovers separate and they're adopted by parents of each other), played out for two plus hours. ![]() This was sincerity hitting all the right laughter ducts. There were scenes where the audience laughed uncontrollably, as (up there on the screen) characters confessed genuine feelings, talked about their painful histories and flamed with anger. Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana (which, in its long-windedness, sounds like the title of a Charlie Kaufman-scripted Urdu picture), is less like a movie and more like one of those high school plays where real kids play Christmas Trees. There was a standing ovation of genuine relief by the time the film drew to a close. I saw a lady walk out in the middle after hush-hushing to her friends that she had to feed her cat. Few people in the audience knew the exact movie title. ![]()
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