Somewhere between a light-hearted and a heart-warming take on marriage and extra-martial affairs, Do Aur Do Pyaar Movie Review generates emotional resonance because of its immensely believable leads and inspired writing.
Evaluating if love is enough to sustain a relationship, the bickering doesn’t get emotionally draining and the resolution feels safe but director Shrisha Guha Thakurta gets the pulse of the urban, upper-class relationships right. Without judging the straying of partners or villainising the other in the matrix, the film, drawing from American actor-writer Groucho Marx’s popular quote, tests the boundaries of marriage as an institution with a light touch and a perceptive gaze. As the narrative flows, the sexual energy between the characters gets contagious and the emotional flux feels believable.
Do Aur Do Pyaar Movie Review
Bangla boy Ani Banerjee (Pratik Gandhi) and Tamil girl Kavya (Vidya Balan) are in the middle overs of their love marriage. They spend the night on the same bed but are not physically hitched anymore as their emotional wavelengths have more troughs than crests. They have even stopped fighting with each other. Well, both have found love and physical intimacy outside. Ani is dating an emerging actor Nora (Ileana D’Cruz) and Kavya has become the muse of a hotshot photographer Vikram (Sendhil Ramamurthy).
‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ (Hindi)
Taking off from the Hrishikesh Mukherjee brand of slice-of-life cinema, writers Amrita Bagchi. Eisha Chopra, and Suprotim Sengupta use familiar tropes of funeral. Family and festival to tie the knots between unfulfilled expectations and forbidden relationships. Drawing from the allegory that everyday life presents. They generate moments that make you chuckle and introspect at the same time. Be it the salt water of the Bombay Sea as a symbol of corroding relationships or referring to laugh lines for both age and ageless appeal. Or commenting on vegan food choices. The writing makes a cliched theme refreshing. The bickering over Bangla food and stainless steel utensils in the kitchen works well to underscore. The fault lines in an inter-community marriage.
Do Aur Do Pyaar box office collection
Per the portal, Do Aur Do Pyaar, which earned ₹55 lakh nett in India on day 1, has now roughly collected a total of ₹1.4 crore nett in India in two days. Do Aur Do Pyaar had an overall 13.72 percent Hindi occupancy on Saturday, with the highest overall occupancy in Chennai with 40 percent.
Do Aur Do Pyaar keeps everything, everyone genuine
Debut director Shirsha Guha Thakurta never explicitly underlines or tries to preach us on how to make a marriage work, or a lesson on how to break it. The film explores the complexities of modern-day relationships, and dilemmas that couples — in a marriage and affair — go through, making this slice-of-life romantic comedy extremely relatable. Unlike films that present larger-than-life characters that look so made-up, Do Aur Do Pyaar keeps everything, and everyone genuine. The things they talk about, their problems, their fights are real, and never struggle to keep you invested.
The Premise
Kavya Ganeshan (Vidya Balan) and Anirudh Bannerjee (Pratik Gandhi) are married for 12 years, after three years of dating. In a heated argument, we see Kavya yelling that she hates his favourite dish ‘begun posto’ (spiced eggplant). He gives it back throwing some utensils expressing his disliking for ‘stainless steel bartan’. But how did their marriage reach this point? In an earlier sequence at a resto-bar, we see Kavya telling Anirudh that it’s important to keep fighting to keep a relationship alive. By that logic, they should be pretty sorted, and they, on the same page.
Meanwhile, both are having an extra-marital affair, and looking for the perfect moment to come clean in front of each other. Kavya is building dreams with a hot photographer Vikram (Sendhil Ramamurthy). Who has left everything in New York and wants Kavya to move in with him in a new sea-facing apartment. Anirudh has found love in Nora aka Rosie (Ileana D’Cruz), a theatre actor.
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Who at one point gets pregnant with his child. While the pressure continues to build from their paramours to confess to their respective partners about. The external relationships, Kavya and Anirudh are confused, and torn between the two dead-ends not knowing. Which direction to go in. Despite the truth that their marriage is no longer working. They end up reigniting romance in a rather unexpected turn of events — at a funeral to be precise. Do they regret it? Or does it help them get closer once again? Do they continue cheating? Or does it become even more complex?
