Both Priyanka Chopra and Anushka Sharma, who trails off, are better than the parts written for them. It’s time Priyanka got back to being a little messy: all these not-a-hair-out-place roles are making her constrained. The latter is scruffy- dishy, and the former is perfectly coiffed, but they are not given enough. There isn’t that much traction between Priyanka Chopra’s put-upon Ms Mehra, married to a man (Rahul Bose) who clearly likes doormats more than women, and the real love of her life (Farhan Akhtar). Anushka Sharma plays a lead dancer in a troupe, and is a spirited if familiar presence in the ensemble, which stretches to a bunch of peroxide aunties with a nasty, gossipy tongue, and the ability of turning everything into an extended Punjabi-style kitty party, and a young couple (Sud and Massey) who fall for each other right under their disapproving parents’ eye in the most ‘Romeo and Juliet’ fashion. Where do you go when love has gone?Īs the unwilling scion of the Mehra family, Ranveer tames his frantic-ness well as he finds himself drawn to a below-the-decks girl (Anushka Sharma) in a decidedly ‘Titanic’ manner.
And some of the spikiness in relationships that are unraveling is very effective, especially the stuff that goes on between the blonde-haired middle-aged glad-eyed Mr Mehra, and the stuffing-her-face-full-of-fat-and-sugar miserable Mrs Mehra: Anil Kapoor and Shefali Shah bring a real sting to their interactions she is the best part of this film, and he is not far behind. So are the sun-drenched vistas of Istanbul, Zoya’s new Spain (the scene of action of her previous ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’). The dinky clothes, the champagne lunches, the doing-nothing-because-you-can lifestyle of the rich if- not-very-famous are drool-worthy. There are pleasures to be had while vicariously spying on the good life. It is the 30th wedding anniversary of the Mehras, and what better than to celebrate other than a communal jaunt on a luxury yatch? And how best to air their problems and neuroses other than over sparkling wine and beauteous foreign vistas?
Pluto, speaking in Aamir Khan’s distinctive voice, delivers little homilies from time to time as the Mehras - Papa (Anil Kapoor), Mama (Shefali Shah), Beta ( Ranveer Singh), Beti ( Priyanka Chopra) and Damaad (Rahul Bose) and their families and frenemies go sailing into the blue yonder. The canine is off on a cruise, as are his humans.
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