Review: Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan isn’t flawless, but a big leap in Bollywood’s lean queer film genre

Ayushmann Khurrana, Jitendra Kumar, Gajraj Rao, Neena Gupta, Manu Rishi Chadha, Sunita Rajwar, Maanvi Gagroo, Pankhuri Awasthyshubh mangal saavdhan

is a mantra of sorts, uttered to announce a marriage. It’s also the title of an earlier movie written by Hitesh Kewalya, in which Ayushmann Khurrana played the lead role of a man dealing with erectile dysfunction, much to the chagrin of his fiancèe, played by Bhumi Pednekar, with a squabbling family providing the backdrop of comic relief.Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan,

a Hindi film with English subtitles, is also his directorial debut. The plot is entirely different, while the title is slightly tweaked. The wordmeans extra. And – the way kids use the word these days – is one way to describe the film. It’s just so extra in depicting a story about two gay men in love, and seeking validation from their family. It’s both its drawback and delight.

Khurrana returns in this gay rom-com, playing Kartik Singh, a Delhi boy who is unabashedly in love with Aman Tripathi . Aman’s conservative family comes from the smaller town of Allahabad. His father Shankar is some sort of agriculture scientist, who grows genetically-modified black cauliflowers that are supposed to be worm resistant. His mother Sunaina is a homemaker.

Homosexuality has long been the butt of jokes in Bollywood. For years, men have played effeminate characters or eunuchs, dressing up in women’s clothes to hoodwink school marms, or pretending to be gay to rent an apartment because that way they aren’t perceived as a threat.

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