Confused love story: My quick take on new Netflix release “Ginny Weds Sunny”
It is an insipid concoction of a Yash Chopra + Kjo + Sooraj Badjyata formula of making a rom-com centered around a wedding in a typical north Indian (simply put as a ‘Punjabi’) style. It is a story of an odd couple where the girl and boy are poles apart in their outlook towards their would-be partners. The girl Ginny played by ravishing beauty Yami Gautam, who at times looks a wee bit elder than Vikram Massey who plays an eagerly waiting groom who just wants to get into wedlock so that he can take over his dad’s hardware shop and convert into his dream project (a restaurant).
Ginny is out and out extrovert, who loves party sharty and friends’ company and is having a cozy relationship with a typical BMW driving boyfriend and dreams of having a marriage. While the Massey boy just wants some girl to get married so that he can start his tandoori kitchen. The odd couple is made to fall in love and the chief architect of this doctored lafda is the girl’s mother Played beautifully by Ayesha Raza.
It’s a confusion a minute rom-com where A loves B and B loves C then B feels betrayed and A feels C is too hot-headed hence dumps C then B again gives it a try at the behest of A’s mother but B is on her ego trip, ultimately A and B and C decide to part for good but again A comforts B and ……….. c’mon I am getting confused now. The screenplay is befitting a 3-Act Marathi play of the ’70s wherein the first two acts there is lots of confusion and in the final act, it is all hunky-dory and the curtain falls.
On the positives, outdoor locations are refreshing, it’s a very “clean” love story (ekdum Badjyata style Wala), dialogs are funny at times, performances of most of the cast is damn good especially the girls' mother played by Ayesha Raza & the boy’s father Rajiv Gupta (One should learn how to crack jokes keeping a deadpan look on face from this actor). Looks like the story was written keeping Ayushman Khurana in mind as he has done similar movies in past, however, Vikrant Massey filled in as poor man’s Ayushman and tried his best to entertain us. Yami Gautam takes off from where she left us in Bala.
Otherwise, the plot and screenplay are predictable and overstretched which makes it a lifeless drag. The Punjabi overdose is so much that at times you will wonder “is this a Hindi film or a Punjabi movie”, Unlike Yash Copra and Kjo the marriage nach gana is not at all impressive.
The movie has a look and feels of movies like Subha mangal Savadhan, Bareily ki Barfi, Badhai Ho, I wish makers had tried to make something different ( Zara Hatke ), movie is just OK and can be watched with family (this is the only USP of the movie). If you are fed up with IPL matches then you can relish the match (or mis-match) of Ginny and Sunny.
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