Actor: Shahid Kapoor
Actress: Alia Bhatt

Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2015-10-22

Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor
Director: Vikas Bahl
Producer: Anurag Kashyap Vikramaditya Motwane Karan Johar Madhu Mantena
Plot: A big fat Shaandaar Indian wedding, which is actually a business merger between two of the biggest business families of India, is happening at an exotic castle in Europe. Mrs. Kamla Arora, the grandmother of the Arora family, the sole owner of the billion-dollar business and the property, has planned their wedding. Kamla Arora is a shrew, and treats everyone like her servants including her three sons, Bipin, Vipul and Vinay. Mr.Fandwani, the grooms father, is a loud Sindhi businessman who is the counter to Kamla Arora The

Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in a still from movie Shaandaar

Description:
Shaandaar has been conceived by its makers as a fairy tale film of the kind Disney makes. They were seemingly convinced that the story they have come up with will be able to convey the same emotional fervour which flicks like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty have been able to do in the past. But thats not what youre in for. This film is a showcase of grandeur and mind blowing locations, which keeps finding some time to tell a story. It would have helped if the narrative was well realized, but more time has clearly been dedicated to displaying visual flair than to moving the audiences with a fairy tale. An adopted daughter of Bipin Arora (Pankaj Kapoor), Alia Arora (Alia Bhatt) has fit into her new family easily despite the hatred towards her by her new mother and grandmother. Alia is a creature of the night; in the sense that she cannot sleep. Her father hopes that her insomnia will one day be cured by a man who will put her to bed. Enter Jagjinder Joginder (Shahid Kapoor), a wedding planner who eventually succeeds in doing that. Get the reverse Sleeping Beauty angle here?

The sub-plot involves Bipins evil mother who wishes to marry off his real daughter Isha (Sanah Kapoor) as part of a business deal with the overly flamboyant Sindhi tycoon played by Sanjay Kapoor. Despite keeping the fairy tale angle alive, this sub-plot fails at effortlessly tying itself up with the main plot. Theres no crispiness in the whole affair, as the storytelling is delayed time and again by unique and ambitious sequences (the director wants to make an impression with these) and songs that fail to move the story forward.