Directed by Sharat Kataria, Sui Dhaaga stars Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma in lead roles. The film also stars Raghubir Yadav, Namit Das, among others in supporting roles and has been produced by YRF.
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| Sui Dhaaga stars Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma |
Sui Dhaaga delivers what it promised - a simple and predictable story about a below poverty line family which has Mauji (Varun Dhawan) and Mamta (Anushka Sharma), an endearing couple who have quite the story to tell. Mauji is a young man, who has a resentful father, an ailing mother and a wife, who he has never even shared a meal with let alone spent time with. Yet, like every other common man in this country, Mauji was happy and content with his mediocre life until his wife makes him release that he is wasting his professional life running personal errands for his boss, especially since he is so talented.
Sui Dhaaga is another of those heartland films that Bollywood has brought to the audience time and again with a compelling story, heartwarming characters and a narrative which will leave you in tears yet provide the much-needed inspiration to drop everything and follow your dreams. Fortunately, mine has always been writing.
Be that as it may, director Sharat Katriya tells a crisp story. Sui Dhaaga, the film gets slow in a number of places but you don’t feel the lag because the performances, especially of Varun Dhawan, Anushka Sharma and Raghubir Yadav (Mauji’s father) is so engaging that you feel like a part of their story every moment of the way.
Varun has really evolved as an actor. In Sui Dhaaga, his body language has the right amount of goofy and his accent has the right amount of subtly. Anushka too, barring a few scenes, nails it as a domesticated, yet a smart and strong-willed woman. However, it is Varun’s chemistry with Raghubir Yadav, which is truly the selling point of the film. Their father-son relationship is complicated and yet totally relatable even to the members of the metro-based Y2K generation.
The music in the film has that much-needed old world charm and is refreshingly away from the too common Yo Yo Honey Singh, Badshah tracks. It’s just simple and melodious, like how we loved it in the bygone era. There is not much to the cinematography, but the detailing in this film, to portray the family life of this household, in the outskirts of Delhi, is just extraordinary.
The payoff scene in the film is when Mauji and Mamta enter into a fashion fund contest and how they present their art on the ramp. It will really hit you hard and at the right spot.
Now, no film is perfect and Sui Dhaaga too has its flaws but in all honesty, it is just knit-picking at my end. While, the film doesn’t ever feel like a drag, but there are scenes and sequences in the film which were purposeless and add nothing to the overall narrative. There are a couple of occasions on which the lead characters do ‘something’ which was completely out of character. Also, Mamta cries a lot, and I mean a lot! And at times it got a bit annoying, but I guess her character was written in that way.
Add to that, most of the second half of the film takes a number of convenience-driven turns and at times, certain conclusions, feel a little forced. The biggest issue of the film is the fact that we are told from the word go that Mauji is an excellent tailor, but how and from where did he learn this craft goes unmentioned till the end. The only justification we get on that account is the information that it is to be credited to his family lineage and nothing else.
Overall Experience
Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma’s Sui Dhaaga is truly a heartwarming film that will inspire you to follow your heart. It is a wonderful family drama that will leave you in tears and make you giggle at places. The film has been sewn with strong performances and a compelling story that is bound to hold your attention for the entire duration of the film. I strongly recommend this one.
Rating: 3.5 stars
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