Movie Review : 2 States
Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Revathy, Amrita Singh, Ronit Roy; Director: Abhishek Varman; Rating: ***1/2
Published: Friday,Apr 18, 2014 01:33 AM GMT-06:00
2 States is the story about Krish and Ananya, who meet in IIM Ahmedabad and fall in love, their love and patience is put to test when they have to convince their respective parents about the whole thing. As Krish (Arjun Kapoor) is Punjabi and Ananya(Alia Bhatt) is a Tamillian, convincing their parents is an uphill task. Eventually Krish realizes that the most important thing in a marriage is love, that is the guy's family should love the girl, the girl's family should love the guy, the guy's family should love the girl's family and vice versa; and after all this in case the guy and the girl are still in love with each other they then, finally get married. How do Krish and Ananya go about this challenging task is what the movie revolves around.
Well to be honest the movie is almost a word by word description of the book. It even has the same dialogue, that's probably because the writer of the book and the film is Chetan Bhagat. Well the movie is entertaining, no doubt, but if you have read the book, you would be a little disappointed as most of the scenes that you would look forward to in the film, are not there at all, but they were the main highlight of the book. If you have not read the book, still you would find some glitch in the flow of the story.Nonetheless some great performances to see in the film, for
sure. To start with Arjun Kapoor, who
plays Krish Malhotra, look fabulous in the film, seems completely in the skin
of the character and convinces the viewer of his agony and eventually you want
him to be with the love of his life. Arjun Kapoor has improved leaps and bounds
in his acting skills and conveniently carries the entire film on his shoulders.
Alia Bhatt, who plays the role of Annanya looks pretty on screen, but somehow doesn't
fit convincingly in the role of a Tam Brahmin. As compared to the last film
Highway, this one seems less rehearsed and seems to be a very casual
performance.
The only place the movie lags behind is that, some of the most important scenes in the book haven't been used in the film, which is why the movie seems incomplete, but only for those of you who have read the book. Otherwise the film is decent love story, and motivates you to give your love story at least one chance. For all those who are in love and have to do some convincing bits, you have lots of cues to take from here, and for those of you who didn't even try once to complete their love story, better luck next time.
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