Nine long episodes, average of 46 minutes each and you still won’t be able to get enough of the glitzy shenanigans of the plush, fat North Indian weddings that reek of crores of money through all the dysfunctional families threaded into them.
Zoya did what she does the best.
Make the rich people look even richer through her shiny director lens to put every wad of note intricately in form of wealthy couture and wealthier ebony hardwood floors of palatial mansions.
Tara Khanna and Arjun Mathur, a wedding planner duo who gets on to wed the daughters and sons (sometimes even the parents) of high seated officials to bankers and builders in carpeted gardens, at times costing emotions instead of money. When not busy with their demanding professional lives, both have their separate personal lives hanging at the edge.
Tara has her own marriage on rocks, and her past tells a completely different story from her present socialite state. She’s insecure beneath all the confidence she wears but never once lets her guard down. Arjun has his hands already full with his closeted sexuality and his nosy landlord.
The other actors doesn’t disappoint, Kalki Koechlin and Jim Sarbh, Shashank Arora are constants in the series, each acing their part. Other actors keep changing with each episode like Ayesha Raza, Neena Gupta, Eisha Chopra.
The series is basically an anthology of several “love stories” being incorporated through articulate wedding films of their own taking the real issues at the backseat. The issues being lying, deceit, scandals, infidelity, dowry and what not. Women are accused of gold digging, men for infidelity, old people of promiscuity.
The entire series injects you with a seething reality or what seems to be it, under the pristine sophistication of the urban class families. And no one seems to apologetic about any of it.
The storytelling is smooth but it hits the block each time when the personal and professional lives meet the crossroads. It gets difficult to divide your attention into both the rows, especially when it gets difficult to distinguish from the either.
A special mention should be rooted for the opening scene of each episode which is something I wasn’t able to skip. It’s so well done and meticulously seeped with an image, exactly the one the makers are trying to decimate.
All said and done, this series shouldn’t be judged from its cover because it’s much more than that. It’s well put and you see the efforts they have put into it. If you are someone who craves for the socialite ditzy drama once in a while, binge watch it right away.