Life Partner

If exaggeration is your middle name, please watch Life Partner. You’ll love it! But if you’re the kind that enjoys subtlety, give it a miss and you won’t regret your decision. 

As the movie’s name suggests, it is all about life partners, albeit different kinds. This film, shot in Cape Town, traces the lives of 4 people, before and after they tie the knot, and how their lives change for the worse once they get married.

So, we have Karan (Fardeen Khan), a happy-go-lucky guy, his girlfriend Sanjana (Genelia D’Souza), daddy’s spoilt brat; if her hair-color had been golden, she could be nicknamed the dumb blonde of the film. 

Then there is the “good” Gujju boy Bhavesh (Tusshar Kapoor), from a super conservative family, who wants to save himself and all his romance for his wife. The wife is played by Prachi (Prachi Desai), a small town girl, well- educated, independent and daughter of a filthy rich man.

And if the movie is about love and marriages, how can the harbinger of trouble be missing? So in comes a divorce lawyer, Jeet Oberoi, played by Govinda. 

Bhavesh gets married to Prachi, the good, sweet Gujrati girl, his dad’s good friend’s daughter. She completely wins him over, but her broad-minded attitude doesn’t go down too well with his dad, and so all hell breaks loose after they get back from their honeymoon. 

Sanjana and Karan get married too, but their love story is in the dumps as well. The girl offers no help with the household chores. He wakes up early every morning to clean and cook, goes to work, takes his wife partying, brings her home late in the night (she gets so sloshed every time that he has to physically carry her  home). 

While Bhavesh’s marriage is on the rocks due to an extremely strict father, Karan’s is because of a dim-witted and useless wife. Jeet swoops in to get them divorced at this point. Obviously, they resolve their differences at the end and come together once more. 

The movie manages to generate a few laughs in the first half, owing to Sanjana’s virtue of being absolutely talentless. Whether it’s writing a novel, singing, or even painting, she is abysmally bad at them all and the funniest (if not irritating) thing about the situation is that she has no idea that she sucks so badly! 

The worst part of the movie was the over the top characters, and Govinda’s loud comedy. The extremely rigid character portrayed by Bhavesh’s dad is not possible in today’s scenario. And a scatter brain like Sanjana can’t be real on this planet at least.  

If the movie’s middle was bad, the end was the most pathetic. I will not give it away…watch it if you have the time to waste.

 

If you’re wondering what about the film is “watchable”, well not much. There is no point in watching a film merely because the costumes are good (not great). It makes no sense to watch it when only 1 song of the lot is slightly hummable. And why watch a movie in which the star cast needs to take acting lessons? The choice is yours!