Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui breaks stereotypes and totally entertains -

STORY: Manvinder Munjal aka Manu (Ayushmann Khurrana) is a well being fanatic who owns a health middle, and a bodybuilder who competes 12 months on 12 months to win the native championship. Whereas he’s centered all his energies on sweating it out and developing his dole-shole for that (with little luck), his health middle enterprise sees far and few footfalls. Until walks in, the head-turner, Maanvi Brar (Vaani Kapoor), the health middle’s newly appointed Jhoomba (study: Zumba), instructor. Rapidly ample, sparks fly and the two are drawn proper right into a passionate relationship. Nonetheless there’s additional to Maanvi than the gorgeous girl that she is. And that sorts the crux of the story.

REVIEW: Love tales are love tales in any case. Largely, boy-meets-girl, some romance, mush-gush, battle, make-up or breakup, and end of the story. Properly proper here, boy does meet girl, too, nevertheless she has a earlier (not the cliché affair, marriage, toddler out of wedlock or jail historic previous), that turns into exhausting for Manu, with all his machismo, to bear. With out gifting away so much (Story Idea credited to Simran Sahni), let’s say that Maanvi has courageously battled all odds, and ‘reworked’ right into a model new particular person, any individual she has always pined to be. Whereas she feels liberated and is happy together with her new id, and one which’s true to her precise self, will society and her family embrace her various and accept her for what they identify, ‘not common’ of their very common world.

Director, Abhishek Kapoor, doesn’t beat throughout the bush and can get to the aim instantly and shortly. After introducing Manu, his buddies and his family, he lets us into Maanvi’s world, slowly and subtly revealing her earlier. Whereas preparing us for Maanvi’s revelations, he’s moreover readying us for Manu’s preliminary disbelief, shock and horror at discovering additional regarding the girl he’s so intensely in love with. And when the second arrives, he handles it finely, with out an extreme quantity of dramatisation or theatrics – in effectivity or dialogues.

Whereas Abhishek maintains light-hearted humour in most circumstances, he handles the hard-hitting actuality of the subject with sensitivity and maturity. He lays all of it out – people’s crude and outrageous response on finding out the truth regarding the matter, our regular lack of information and information on a matter that should be addressed, and the best way during which our society is sharply divided on the concept of being ‘inclusive’, and giving every explicit individual the liberty to be who they’re and what they have to be. Abhishek does it with tact and weaves in humorous punches – mushy and delicate, nothing too heavy-weight. Credit score rating moreover goes to Supratik Sen and Tushar Paranjape for his or her honest and relatable screenplay and dialogues, which is clear in a variety of scenes. Be it the Munjal family pushing Manu’s to get married, his widower father (Girish Dhamija) able to marry his Muslim girlfriend, Maanvi’s father (Kanwaljit Singh) being supportive of her picks even if her mother strongly disapproves, or Manu’s over-the-top sisters meddling in all of Manu’s points—there’s certainly not a uninteresting second, just about all scenes as tight as Manu’s six-pack and bulging biceps.

The performances listed below are ‘tip-top’! Ayushmann Khurrana will get into the pores and pores and skin of the character (truly!). Watch out for his superphysical makeover. He portrays Manu utterly, and successfully, that incontrovertible fact that he’s really a Chandigarh boy, ought to have actually helped crack it. He appears to be, walks and talks the half.

Vaani Kapoor sinks her enamel into her character from the phrase go and affords a no-holds-barred effectivity. Vaani and Ayushmann not solely look good collectively, however as well as share fiery chemistry onscreen.

Goutam Sharma, Gourav Sharma (as Manu’s twin buddies) are hilarious, Aanjjan Srivastav (Manu’s grandfather), Kanwaljit Singh, Tanya Abrol and Girish Dhamija play the supporting elements very successfully.
Bindiya Chhabria’s manufacturing design is vibrant and cinematographer Manoj Lobo has fantastically shot this offbeat love story. Chandan Arora’s enhancing is crisp. Sachin-Jigar’s soundtrack with lyrics by Priya Saraiya, Vayu and IP Singh take the narrative forward. Though the Holi tune initially seems to look instantly, it serves as an apt set off to maneuver Manu and Maanvi’s romance in prime gear.

In a put up Covid interval, the place we’re grappling with what’s the model new common each day of our lives, it’s time we dig deep and question what’s ‘common’ truly. Have we self-created norms and normalcy, to feed the desires of few on the earth who’re trapped on this false sense of what’s common? Isn’t it time to shake points up a bit, switch out of the comfort zone and break the shackles of stereotypes? Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui does that, whereas nonetheless leaving you comfortably entertained.