The 12 Husbands With 2 Biwis!

Bollywood’s
warped
sense
of
humour
sees
much
fun
in
a
man’s
attachment
to
two
women
as
he
hyper
oscillates
between
a
pair
of
wives.

Where
the
same
scenario
would
take
a
scandalous
turn
if
the
perpetrator
was
a
woman,
bigamy
is
rarely
viewed
as
a
problem
in
Hindi
movies.

If
anything,
it’s
a
source
of
much
amusement
as
Arjun
Kapoor
demonstrates
around
an
ex-wife’s
amnesia
and
to-be-bride’s
delirium
in
this
Friday’s
release,

Mere
Husband
Ki
Biwi
co-starring
Bhumi
Pednekar
and
Rakul
Singh.

Sukanya
Verma
looks
at
movies
that
followed
the
same
chain
of
thoughts
and
empowered
the
ultimate
male
fantasy.

Animal

In
the
ultra-violent

Animal,
Ranbir
Kapoor’s
daddy
obsession
results
in
serious
damage
to
his
mind
and
marriage.

As
if
his
volatile
ideas
of
domestic
bliss
with
Rashmika
Mandana
aren’t
shocking
enough,
he
engages
in
an
explicitly
sexual
liaison
with
Triptii
Dimri,
addressed
as

Bhabhi
2
by
his
underlings,
for
strictly
retributive
reasons.

Biwi
No
1

Despite
Karisma
Kapoor’s
selfless
‘Sati
Savitri’
ways,
Salman
Khan’s
roving
eye
gets
the
better
of
him
and
he
dumps
her
to
settle
down
with
the
leggy
gold-digger
Sushmita
Sen.

David
Dhawan’s
facetious
look
at
adultery
is
more
interested
in
upping
Karisma’s
glamour
game
and
prove
she’s

Biwi
No
1
while
Sallu
learns
a
lesson
in
loyalty.

Saajan
Chale
Sasural

Dhawan’s
love
for
creating
double-sized
marital
confusion
unlocks
new
level
of
contrivances
when
Govinda
finds
himself
swaying
between
the
wife
he
thought
he
had
lost
in
a
flood
(Karisma)
and
the
heiress
(Tabu)
he
married
immediately
after
to
evoke
laughs
like
only
he
can.

It’s
such
a
silly
premise
that
Dhawan
leaves
it
unresolved
till
the
end.

Gharwali
Baharwali

Gharwali
Baharwali
takes
an
already
offensive
plot
and
slumps
down
it
beyond
help
in
the
Anil
Kapoor
led
travesty
wherein
he
brings
home
a
second
wife
because
the
first
one
cannot
conceive
and
keeps
it
a
secret.

The
ensuing

tamasha
is
why
such
drivel
deserves
no
love,
then
or
now.

Judaai

Who
can
forget
Sridevi
selling
off
husband
Anil
Kapoor
to
Urmila
Matondkar
for
a
bag
full
of
money
as
part
of

Judaai‘s
one-of-a-kind
trade
off?

Legality
is
rarely
taken
into
account
in
Bollywood
given
how
Kapoor
continues
to
play

patidev
to
the
hilt,
old
wives
stay
put
on
the
scene
while
brand
new
ones
are
duly
impregnated.

Basera

Raakhee
and
Rekha
play
sisters
even
as
their
shared
hubby
Shashi
Kapoor
lives
up
the
wicked
phrase
—

saali
aadhi
gharwali
—
with
a
complexity
that
comes
organically
to
Bollywood
of
yore.

Maang
Bharo
Sajna

Jeetendra’s
reasons
for
staying
married
to
Moushumi
Chatterjee
and
Rekha
at
the
same
time
while
keeping
it
a
secret
from
both
and
the
melodrama
that
follows
after
the
truth
comes
out
might
make
you
appreciate
Dhawan’s
comic
touches
a
tad
better.

Bajirao
Mastani

Set
in
an
era
when
it
wasn’t
unheard
for
a
man
to
marry
more
than
once,
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali
attempts
to
accord
respect
to
the
dilemma
of
a
peshwa
caught
between
a
soulmate
and
a
sweetheart
against
Ranveer
Singh,
Priyanka
Chopra
and
Deepika
Padukone’s
inter-religious
triangle.

Kis
Kisko
Pyaar
Karoon

Considering
all
the
cheesy
jokes
he’s
made
a
killing
from,
it’s
no
surprise
comedian
Kapil
Sharma’s
Bollywood
debut
would
revolve
around
playing
husband
to
three
women
and
struggling
to
find
time
for
each
in

Kis
Kisko
Pyaar
Karoon‘s
polygamous
circus.

Sandwich

Govinda
and
Raveena
Tandon
recycle
their

Saajan
Chale
Sasural/Gharwali
Baharwali
shtick
along
with
Mahima
Chaudhry
for
novelty
but
there’s
simply
no
freshness
to
be
found
in
the
stale

Sandwich.

Bewaffa
Se
Waffa

Sawan
Kumar
Tak’s

Souten
obsession
hit
its
peak
of
insufferable
drama
in
the
regressive
developments
of
his
most
cherished
genre,
the
Muslim
social.

Juhi
Chawla
can’t
bear
children
so
she
proposes
a

nikaah
between
her
significant
other
Vivek
Mushran
and
BFF
Nagma
for
procreation
purposes
only.

Little
does
she
realise
she’s
shot
herself
right
in
the
foot.