An American journalist travels to India to cover Bollywood weddings, only to uncover a mosaic of cultural clashes, transgender tangles and lost loves with her travels culminating at a destin... Read allAn American journalist travels to India to cover Bollywood weddings, only to uncover a mosaic of cultural clashes, transgender tangles and lost loves with her travels culminating at a destination where the only journey is the one within.An American journalist travels to India to cover Bollywood weddings, only to uncover a mosaic of cultural clashes, transgender tangles and lost loves with her travels culminating at a destination where the only journey is the one within.
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- TriviaGujral, a US-based director of Indian origin, claims that Rao interfered in her casting decisions by recommending his girlfriend Patralekha for a singer's role in her project, despite the same being offered to singer-turned-actor Saru Maini.When Gujral didn't relent to Rao's choice, things reportedly turned sour and led to Rao distancing himself from 5 Weddings, a film made on a shoe-string budget of Rs35 million (Dh1.7 million) and which is now in the UAE. "Rajkumar has a girlfriend who's also an actor. And said to me that she's really good since he has worked on a couple of films with her. But I had already cast someone in that particular role and I didn't want to cast somebody else... He would have liked it if I had cast his girlfriend... It started with that. He would have liked it if I had done something based on what he said," Gujral told Gulf News tabloid!.
- GoofsInspector Harbhajan Singh asks at the airport about the flight to New York and is told that the flight to New York has taken off. There are no direct flights from Chandigarh to New York.
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A commonplace movie
What a tad boring movie, it took me almost three years ohhh I mean days to finish watching this hard-to-sit-through movie. The problem is not the run-time, no no it's actually got a friendly runtime, it's the poorly written characters and bland storytelling. To make matter worse, my version of the film is dubbed, pooorly dubbed that occasionally makes me want to punch my laptop screen. The story follows a biracial lady Shania who is working in an online company, with their boss retiring, she assigned them to dig deep and find stories that's going to make the company blow out the water. Her boss suggested she goes to India and write stories about the culture and also a way to reconnect with her roots since she's of Indian descent. Meanwhile, In Indian a police officer Harbhajan is not happy with his duty patrol, and is assigned as to Shania so that he could keep her in check. They started visiting weddings after weddings (hence the film's title 5 weddings), all while developing feelings for each other. She encounters a group of transgenders and sympathise with them because of the way they're being treated. she decided to write about it and post it online, but the Indian authority is against that, and makes Harbhajan steals her laptop and therefore creating a rift between them. After a brief fight, she goes to the authority herself and gives up all her research but for some reason only known to the director and the writers, she's forgiven and all her things are given back to her. She posts them online, and marries Harbhajan and they live happily ever after, if there's such a thing.
The plot confuses itself, it started quite different but totally loses its way in the second act, and the final act is very predictable. The heroine played Margie Fakhri is my main problem, I don't particularly find her likable, infact she's quite annoying. There's an attempt to flesh out her character with some lackluster flashbacks but falls flat. Police officer Harbhajan played by Rajkummar Rao, I was surprised he take part in this movie, 'cause it seems a little bit below his pay grade, no? Anyways, his performance is quite decent but not a fan of his character either. The rest of cast are okay. The movie just looks depressingly low-budgeted, the cinematography is barely average, music is nothing to talk about. But I admire the filmmakers courage for the message they are trying to pass to the general public.
The plot confuses itself, it started quite different but totally loses its way in the second act, and the final act is very predictable. The heroine played Margie Fakhri is my main problem, I don't particularly find her likable, infact she's quite annoying. There's an attempt to flesh out her character with some lackluster flashbacks but falls flat. Police officer Harbhajan played by Rajkummar Rao, I was surprised he take part in this movie, 'cause it seems a little bit below his pay grade, no? Anyways, his performance is quite decent but not a fan of his character either. The rest of cast are okay. The movie just looks depressingly low-budgeted, the cinematography is barely average, music is nothing to talk about. But I admire the filmmakers courage for the message they are trying to pass to the general public.
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- Dec 30, 2020
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- $26,980
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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