'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania': Did Angad deserve Kavya more than Humpty?

Sidharth Shukla, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan Picture Courtesy: Pallav Paliwal

Shashank Khaitan's ‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania' was an ode/rehash/remake (take your pick) of one of the most iconic love stories of Hindi Cinema, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'. But unlike Parmeet Sethi's Kuljeet in DDLJ, Sidharth Shukla's Angad had no traces of grey shades. He wasn't reduced to being a villain in the end who won't let the hero be with the heroine. After all, when has love obeyed or followed idealism when it's all about the essence?

Hindi Cinema is a medium that allows you to be as fictional as you can imagine, far away from being practical and pragmatic. In the real world, guys like Humpty do not stand a chance to win against someone like Angad. We sadly don't get enough moments between Kavya and Angad apart from a dhaba scene that later involves the third angle in the triangle too.

The climax looks a bit hurried, with Angad's character mysteriously disappearing. Kavya's father, played by Ashutosh Rana, is the revamped version of Amrish Puri's disciplinarian act from 1995. The twist in the tale is the ‘Jee Le Apni Zindagi' dialogue, which is mouthed to the hero here. The haste finale never allows you to root for Humpty and his Dulhania. It needed more of Angad to make the effect stronger.

Had this been real, Angad and Kavya would have got married long back. And that hoax Facebook status by the bride would have stood true. The likes would be pouring even seven years later. Only difference being Angad not being able to see it.

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