Her scenes with Pankaj Kapur are the only ones in the film that come close to being moving. Kapoor Jr and Bhatt are lightly likeable, especially Bhatt, who uses her mobile face to suggest half-emotions, impulses, unspoken jokes - the stuff of real life. Shaandaar, with its Karan Johar cameo and its in-jokes about Shahid and his father acting in the same film, feels depressingly ‘establishment’. Queen may have had Bollywood gloss but it behaved like a scrappy outsider. Read: When Shahid Kapoor made Alia Bhatt cry Will the two of them pass sleepless nights in each other’s company? Will this bother her doting father? The suspense will kill you. Enter another insomniac, Jagjinder Joginder (Shahid Kapoor), who’s planning the wedding of Alia’s sister to Robin, the eight-and-a-half-pack-sporting scion of a Sindhi business family. So far, so Cinderella, except that Alia is a perfectly happy child whose biggest problem is her insomnia. Alia, adopted daughter of businessman Vipin Arora (Pankaj Kapur), is detested by her stepmother and grandmother, who are obsessed with the family name. The stakes in Shaandaar are so low the film keeps tripping over them. They were seemingly convinced that the story they have come up with will be able to convey the same. This exhibition of cartoon villainy was an early indication that Shaandaar was unlikely to be anything like Bahl’s last film, Queen (2014), which had a pretty surface but emotions that felt like they were based in reality. Shaandaar has been conceived by its makers as a fairy tale film of the kind Disney makes. This is a film of such consistent, determined frivolity that the high spirits soon become wearying.For me, the fun started dimming when Sushma Seth’s grandma casually addressed Alia (Alia Bhatt) as ‘anaath’ in front of the whole family. The film was released on 22 September 1974. Ineptly handled though they may be, weight issues at least offer a moment or two of friction in an almost unceasingly blithe production. Resplendent) is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by KrishnanPanju.The film stars Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore and Vinod Mehra.A remake of the 1971 Kannada film Kasturi Nivasa, it focuses on Rajan, who incurs losses as Chander, a man who he helped, prospers. By drawing a line, Bahl and Dutt suggest that you shouldn’t be judged for your body type - up to a point. Isha (Sanah Kapoor) explains that she likes herself the way she is, and ends with “I’m not even that fat”. Even the speech in question is problematic. Director Vikas Bahl and writer Anvita Dutt may think that it’s fine to fat-shame a character through an entire film as long as she’s given an emancipatory speech at the end. There are so many regrettable decisions taken by the makers of Shaandaar that I’ll begin with what may seem like a minor one.
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