Review: Ramaiya Vastavaiya is for the masses

Ramaiya Vastavaiya will leave you with a couple of good laughs, if nothing else, writes Paloma Sharma.

Ramaiya Vastavaiya, dancer master-turned-director Prabhu Dheva’s remake of his own Telugu film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana, is what Vidya Balan had once used to describe herself in The Dirty Picture, “Entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.”

If you’re looking for decent art direction, script or even logic, you know where to find the door, thank you very much.

Starring Girish Kumar as Ram, a young Indian boy who was brought up in Australia, Ramaiya Vastavaiya follows him to India where, at his cousin’s engagement, he meets and falls in love with a doormat Sona (Shruti Haasan). Sona rejects him but Ram isn’t one to give up. He ‘pursues’ her to every corner of the flower-and-light covered, newly whitewashed shaadiwala ghar that appears in every second Bollywood film from the 1980s, through the 1990s; until eventually she too feels that “something-something”.