If
this
were
a
French
farce,
nobody
would
have
batted
an
eyelid
if
the
father
of
the
groom
and
mother
of
the
bride
fell
in
love
and
wanted
to
marry.
But
here,
some
crude
comedy
is
generated
with
a
dash
of
melodrama,
feels
Deepa
Gahlot.
Luv
Ki
Arrange
Marriage
has
not
been
directed
by
Raaj
Shaandilya
but
he
has
co-written
it
with
Director
Ishrat
R
Khan,
and
is
one
of
the
producers,
so
some
of
the
creative
inputs
must
have
been
his.
The
film
falls
into
the
Dream
Girl
formula
of
small
towners
trying
to
get
bold,
but
within
limits.
No
sex
please,
and
all
that.
If
this
were
a
French
farce,
nobody
would
have
batted
an
eyelid
if
the
father
of
the
groom
and
mother
of
the
bride
fell
in
love
and
wanted
to
marry.
But
here,
some
crude
comedy
is
generated
with
a
dash
of
melodrama.
Had
such
an
idea
been
attempted
a
few
decades
earlier,
it
would
have
been
a
tear-jerker
and
probably
ended
with
a
suicide.
So
this
blase
new
attitude
could
be
seen
as
a
sort
of
progress.
Luv
(Sunny
Singh)
lives
with
his
father,
Prem
Kumar
(Annu
Kapoor),
who
is
the
neighbourhood
Casanova.
The
women
flirt
with
him
while
their
husbands
gnash
their
teeth.
His
age
is
mentioned
as
55
but
a
lot
of
ageist
banter
is
directed
at
him.
Prem,
his
lookalike
sister
(Kapoor
in
drag),
her
husband
(Mushtaq
Khan)
and
Luv
go
from
Orchha
to
Bhopal
to
see
a
potential
bride
for
the
young
man.
Ishika
(Avneet
Kaur),
the
daughter
of
Supriya
(Supriya
Pathak),
a
bidi-smoking
garage
owner,
is
rude
to
Luv
and
rejects
him.
Luv
is
rude
right
back
and
they
storm
out.
But
riots
break
out
in
the
city,
and
they
are
forced
to
take
shelter
in
Supriya’s
home,
where
other
random
characters,
including
a
wandering
thief
(Paritosh
Tripathi)
and
an
alcoholic
grandfather
(Sudhir
Pandey)
hang
around.
The
visitors
apparently
can’t
leave
the
city,
but
they
have
innumerable
costume
changes.
Supriya
has
a
suitor
(Rajpal
Yadav),
who
is
unable
to
express
his
love,
and
is
friend
zoned.
A
lot
of
cracks
are
made
about
his
short
stature,
and
one
thought
in
this
age
of
political
correctness,
all
body-shaming
was
to
be
avoided.
Luv
and
Ishika
inevitably
fall
in
love,
only
to
find
that
Prem
and
Supriya
plan
to
marry!
After
coming
up
with
the
one-line
idea
of
an
older
couple
romancing
—
though
these
two
are
far
from
senior
citizen
stage
—
the
writers
and
director
do
not
know
how
to
proceed.
So
they
add
really
loud
comic
interludes,
which
are
anything
but
funny.
Supriya
is
quickly
transformed
from
badass
to
coy
bride,
with
the
actress
resorting
to
her
Khichdi
style
acting.
In
fact,
all
the
actors
must
have
been
told
to
‘do
comedy’
and
make
as
much
of
a
racket
while
they
overact.
The
dialogue
is
so
overwritten
that
characters
do
not
speak
like
normal
people
but
like
potential
stand-up
comics
rehearing
their
sets.
Annu
Kapoor
should
have
been
tired
of
playing
a tharki
buddha
(lecherous
old
man)
but
he
seems
to
have
no
qualms
playing
the
vulgar
philanderer,
who
claims
his
ghagra-chasing
is
just
friendship.
Sunny
Singh
and
Avneet
Kaur
must
be
the
most
bland
romantic
couple
in
recent
times.
Luv
Ki
Arrange
Marriage
is
set
in
Orchha,
a
beautiful
temple
town
in
Madhya
Pradesh,
and
the
film
looks
good
only
when
the
camera
occasionally
pans
on
the
exteriors.
It
must
be
the
lure
of
subsidies
that
result
in
such
films
being
shot
in
small
towns,
but
really,
a
film
like
this
just
gives
the
place
a
bad
name.
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