Text Credits: Sandra James

Veere Di Wedding is a movie that excited the Bollywood fans and enthusiasts much before its release. The anticipation was mainly because the movie marked the comeback of Kareena Kapoor and also because of the all female lead cast in the film. But as soon as the official trailer launched, the movie received flak on social media and attracted controversy. The argument of public dissing on the movie was that, Veere Di Weeding reduces women empowerment and feminism to women drinking, cussing, smoking and openly talking about sexual desires. Many even wanted to boycott the movie for it’s wrong depiction of women empowerment.

So finally during an interview with Anupama Chopra for film companion the cast opened up and addressed the double standards and hypocrisy towards the female led movies in Bollywood. When Anupama asked, is there danger of reducing women empowerment is to behaving more like men or to smoking, drinking, this is how the Sonam Kapoor and Swara Bhaskar replied

Sonam Kapoor jumped right in and made herself clear. She said:

“It’s completely misconstrued what feminism and women empowerment is. It’s a choice. The choice is that we are all four different characters and we all have different ways of behaving.”

Then Swara Bhaskar took over and said: “It’s taken 105 years for mainstream Bollywood to make a film about four girlfriends and none of them are falling in love with the same guy.”She added, “No one asks Anurag Kashyap why his characters swear this much?”

Sonam later talked about how Pyaar Ka Punchnama a highly misogynistic movie was widely celebrated. She added,

“Pyaar Ka Punchnama was very misogynistic. Nobody has said, “don’t you think you’re being misogynistic by portraying women in a certain way or men as commitment phobic?”

Watch the full interview here.

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Text Credits: Sandra James

Veere Di Wedding with its official trailer release on April 25th 2018 earned enough buzz to get the B-town and got Bollywood enthusiast talking. The trailer showed four friends drinking, swearing, discussing sex and love in a fearless abandon and promised a coming of age tale in a true female centric light.  The movie promotion hit the media and press with a trending hashtag, #ImNotAChickFlick. This indeed was a strong move to shatter the box fitted concept of “chick flick” which goes against the values of feminism. The cast including Kareena Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar, Shikha Talsania and the producers including Ekta Kapoor, Rhea Kapoor went ahead and explained how Veere Di Wedding is not just a movie for the female audiences but anyone.

The movie hit the big screen on June 1st 2018. The critics everywhere unanimously agreed the movie trailed to be flat and shallow. So what went wrong?

Here is the simple plot: four women trying to come in terms with love, life and commitment and that is pretty much it. The movies makes a run through each of their lives but fails explore their character in depth. The audience watching the film can understand about complexities of their situation but somehow cannot become a part of their journey. The movie which is set on friendship, lacks moments of true camaraderie. This is exactly what Sneha May from Film Companion encapsulates in her remark, “the movie is half baked”.

Further, the movie nowhere discusses the ambition or career of the women in the movie. All throughout the movie we do not get to know about their careers except for Avni (Sonam Kapoor). It is ironical how the writers have failed to show the professional side of the women, in a movie which is intended to be “women empowering”.

In the end Veere Di Wedding is a good commercial fluff with Laugh out loud (Lol) moments and decent amount of glam and sparkle. Veere Di Wedding proves that a fun filled entertainer about women made by women could also create the commercial rage, like any male driven movie. If you are ready to break into fits of laughter and not seeking any major life advises and just looking for some fun and relaxed theatre experience then this is the film for you.

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