She submits her 'article' handwritten in Hindi (her desk has a typewriter) and it is rejected by her husband who is owner/editor. While you take refuge in coffee, the love story blossoms in front of Hira Mandi locals. It isn't, because Zafar has a brother Abdul (Kunal Khemu in a wonderful villainous role) who heads a Muslim political party and wants to separate from India. She has spunk too, and it's all very 'do you not have boundaries', 'I don't touch women without consent and I pay them' type dialog in Urdu, if you please, with several 'aap's and 'ishq' thrown in to make the whole thing look romantic. Like any Bollywood romance, Zafar is a bad boy who falls in love with a virgin. In a Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram Leela style meet cute, Roop meets Zafar with people dancing out a Dussehra story. Considering how far they show Hira Mandi is from the villa where the Chowdhry family lives, the acoustics must be brilliant for Bahar Begum's voice to carry that far, with words being clear and all. Her husband is devoted to the dying wife and hasn't even seen what Roop looks like. Freshly married Roop insists she go to Hira Mandi (the wrong side of their town) to learn music from Bahar Begum. She gets relief from this complicated story early on.īut the complications aren't over yet. Dev Chowdhry has to marry Roop because the wife he loves so much is dying of cancer. Laawaris anyone? Alia Bhatt plays Roop, belongs to a poor family who is made to marry Dev Chowdhry (Aditya Roy Kapoor who looks like he doesn't know if he's playing Devdas or Paro's husband Bhuvan Chowdhry from Devdas) so that her family is taken care of by the husband's rich family. Varun Dhawan is Zafar, an illegitimate son to the patriarch of a rich family (Sanjay Dutt in a perennially unhappy look, but still has a great voice) and a courtesan named Bahar Begum (played by the still gorgeous Madhuri Dixit). But their love is wrong on all kinds of levels. Varun Dhawan (with lots of Kohl in his eyes a la Shah Rukh Khan in Raees) and Alia Bhatt (dressed for a sequel to Raazi, but is in the film a martyr in mohabbat) romancing should have been a feel good, dripped in honey romance. It's a good thing, because nothing else makes you feel good. I'm a sucker for romance and the songs of this film stick in your head.
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