And how he gets that amazing chemistry from the two is beyond me. He manages to keep extracting great performances from Varun & Alia. He got it right with ‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania’, and ‘Valia’ fans will surely love this film as well. Shashank knows what he’s doing in terms of direction. The message is an important one, but it was beaten to death in this movie. Now I’ll get right into my critique of the film as a whole. The rest of the film follows the relationship of Vaidehi & Badri. Vaidehi agrees to marry Badri on the same day as her sister’s marriage but problems arise. Badri agrees to this condition and finds Kritika a suitable groom. She wants her elder sister (Kritika) to settle down before she does. She is extremely opposed to the idea of marrying him at first, but later she strikes a deal with him. He is hell-bent on marrying her even before enquiring whether or not she likes him. Varun (Badrinath) falls in love with Alia (Vaidehi) when he sees her at a wedding. The message was good, but the runtime was far too stretched out to drive home a pretty basic point: the girl child is just as valid/important as a boy child. As a whole, the film was an entertaining one-time watch, but I do have my issues with it.įor starters, the film was way too long. It’s a leave-your-brain-at-home, lighthearted, romantic comedy. It was clear from the first look of BKD that this wasn’t going to be some huge magnum opus, and I was fully prepared for that. And I thought for sure I’d be raving about it. Though I’ve always liked the Varun-Alia jodi, this film didn’t really do it for me. They complement each other so well you’d think something was brewing between the two off-screen. First things first, I FINALLY understand why there are so many fan clubs dedicated to the pairing of Varun Dhawan & Alia Bhatt… their onscreen chemistry is unreal! It’s hard to believe that post SOTY (Student of the Year) Alia fell for Sidharth and not Varun.