Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das) is getting married. But only her favorite cousin, Ria (Shefali Shetty), knows that she's still hung up on her married ex (Ishaan Nair). Meanwhile, the event planner (Vijay Raaz) has fallen head-over-heels for Alice (Tillotama Shome), a servant in the Verma household, and the father-of-the-bride (Naseeruddin Shah) is taking out loans to pay for the wedding and dealing with the influx of guests from around the world, in addition to meeting his arranged son-in-law's parents for the first time.
It's very My Big Fat Greek Wedding in terms of scope and lively characters, but a little earthier and with less fish-out-of-water. It's about half in English, half Hindi and I had a bitch of a time finding a way to get closed captioning to not cover the subtitles. Being hard of hearing is annoying. That being said, I very much enjoyed this movie. It was joyful but not frothy; there was a substance to it that made the emotional payoffs work. A lot of that comes down to the performances from Shetty, Shah, and Raaz.
If you're looking for an intro to Bollywood but don't know where to start, this is kind of like wading into the shallow end. A primer, if you will. It's only available for rent but it's worth it. Also, would probably make a good post-Thanksgiving-crashed-on-the-couch family movie, as long as your family is cool with somebody occasionally getting called a motherfucker.
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