Aaha Kalyanam

7/7/2014

"Wedding planning? Will that work out here?" Sakthivel asks Shruthi Subramaniam, as she reveals her business plan. "Why not? Isn't marriage universal?" she shoots back, and for a moment, it feels like this is the sort of conversation that the makers of Aaha Kalyanam would have had before remaking Band Baaja Baaraat. The genre of the film — romance — is universal, and romance is what drives most of our movies to an extent. So, it is not really surprising that this remake works fine. That said, however, like the concept of wedding planning, the film too feels a little alien, and we don't really fall in love with it entirely. The chief reason for this is the casting — Vaani Kapoor hardly looks like a Tamizh ponnu and her lip sync is often amiss that, despite her making it up with her expre