There’s something memorable about nearly everyone in the film. What makes Dil Dhadakne Do so enjoyable is not just the dysfunctional family plot, but the likable characters. Throw in a marriage breaking apart, a marriage forcibly arranged and an ex turning up, and you get a cocktail made in hell. The farcical nature of the family reaches breaking point when they embark on a cruise through Turkey and Greece to celebrate the senior Mehras’ wedding anniversary. Because Pappy’s word is always set in stone, the children have little say in their lives, so they’re passive aggressive in their own ways. The parents realize they are being insensitive when they spit the aforementioned fire, but they can’t help themselves because getting back is guilty pleasure. Mom and Pappy spit fire at the dining table while the son sits helpless in between. To say the Mehras don’t get along would be a giant understatement, and Akhtar milks their dysfunctional qualities to hilarious effect. Their daughter Ayesha (Priyanka Chopra) runs her own business successfully while their son Kabir (Ranveer Singh) is to inherit the Mehra empire. Pappy Kamal Mehra (Anil Kapoor) is the quintessential patriarch business magnate, acrimoniously married to Momma Neelam (Shefali Shah). The Mehras are a leading business family. Rich people have problems too, and Dil Dhadakne Do proves that if written and directed well, it is possible for a First World film to connect with Third World audiences. The conflicts in the film are authentic and they’re rendered with genuine emotion. However this time, in DDD, nothing seems corny.
Being from the third world, it was difficult to give a damn about the people in the film. It certainly did in director Zoya Akhtar’s last film, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, which felt like the Bollywood definition of First World Problems.
This could come across as corny rather than heartfelt. In Dil Dhadakne Do, a bunch of incredibly rich folks go on a foreign trip, trying to find themselves, and indulge in some thumb wrestling in the process.
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