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Even the two stunningly beautiful tribute songs ( Anu Malik) rendered by Sanu are way too real to be a part of the era unlike the retro mishmashes we have heard in “ Om Shanti Om” and “ The Dirty Picture”. With nostalgia attacks all through, the film doesn’t mock the era in any way.
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With all those cassette recording shops, libraries with ladders, Bajaj Chetak scooters, flunking tenth boards, Samooh Vivahs and of course, Kumar Sanu, Sharat Katariya takes us 90s kids back to their childhood. With an ideal setting of 1995 with a backdrop of our Bollywood music, the costumes, production design and music teams seem to have had a blast while making “Dum Laga Ke Haisha”. Oh yes, we had the auditorium roaring with laughter. In perhaps the filmiest of scenes, we have Prem and Sandhya (played with delightful confidence by Bhumi) talking to each other through film songs on the stereo. Prem’s parents who are ever-supporting to the new bride (as her education is an “asset” to the family) while the Buaji is mostly sarcastic. Coming to the detailing by the writer (Katariya), we see him explore the nuances of Prem’s family. The conversations are every day, the humour is mostly derisive or etched out of nostalgia while the situations are not make-belief. The word “original” should be underlined for the fact that there is no scene, no dialogue, and no song that you wouldn’t be able to relate or were forced into the narrative. Well, when was the last time, since Jab We Met in 2007, we watched a charming Bollywood romantic comedy with some original humour? Yes, “ Wake Up Sid” was borderline refreshing but the film had several other concerns to address than just the couple. And the local dialect that he manages to pull off? Man, this is your film. You can call him a loser or tag him submissive but Ayushmann lends utmost believability and poise to this complex character.
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That very sequence establishes the inner demons he creeds deep within. Coming back to Prem, Ayushmann shines like a diamond in what could possibly be the best scene of the enterprise, beginning with a failure he meets with (and the soulful Prem’s Theme in background, sigh) followed by an outrage at home. But Dum Laga Ke Haisha is as real as our commercial cinema can turn within its fragile framework. It could have been the easy way out with all sympathies driven to the leading lady with a couple of Satyamev Jayate-styled bhashans scripted by Aamir Khan. First of all, a round of applause to director Sharat Katariya for not stereotyping Ayushmann Khurrana’s Prem Prakash Tiwary as a shallow schmuck.