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From the onset, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan makes it clear what it’s about. In the opening scene, Ayushmann Khurana Kartik and his lover Aman (Jitendra Kumar) plot to help a friend (Bhumi Pednekar) elope with her boyfriend. As she jumps out of her balcony, the motorcycle which is supposed to be her vehicle of liberation doesn’t start smoothly, and her father catches the trio. As Kartik gets beaten up and Aman is caught in the commotion, Bhumi kickstarts the bike and escapes into the night. The message is clear: there are no saviours in this film, only rebellious romantics.
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan is one of the few mainstream Hindi films that wears its gay heart proudly on its rainbow cape, treating sexuality as a cause of celebration, directing the shame and humiliation at those trying to inflict it. The ‘those’ here are a predictable lot: Aman’s family, in whose Allahabad household the drama mostly unspools.
There’s the family patriarch, Shankar Tripathi (Gajraj Rao), the mother who’s never shy of dropping dark zingers (Neena Gupta), Manu Rishi as Tripathi’s bumbling brother and a delightfully hysterical Sunita Rajwar, who plays his wife. Maanvi Gagroo is their ‘neglected daughter’, whose wedding gets called off after the groom learns about Aman’s sexuality. The rest of the film is set against this context: societal diktats in the Northern hinterland are so strong, that a straight marriage has to be called off because a family member is gay.
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