Showing posts with label Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Dum Laga Ke Haisha (live action movie), via Netflix

In Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Prem, a high school dropout, agrees to marry Sandhya, an overweight young woman, in the hope of improving his family's fortunes. Although Prem doesn't have a future beyond his family's cassette tape recording shop, Sandhya is educated and hopes to become a teacher soon.

Although Sandhya is eager to be a good wife and adapt to living with her husband's family, pretty much everyone is a jerk to her. Prem's aunt insults Sandhya at every opportunity, making fun of her weight and saying that she thinks she's too good for them. As for Prem, all he sees when he looks at Sandhya is a fat and therefore unattractive woman his father forced him to marry. He wants a different life, one where he managed to graduate high school and marry a slim young woman. Sandhya, meanwhile, becomes more and more fed up with the way she's being treated.

Warning: this review includes a few spoilers.