Movie Review: Bidaai (2011)

In recent times there are some movies which try to take road never taken by; like Batch No. 16, Sick City, Swor, etc. Its different things some of them didn’t work at box office, some panned badly by the critics but at least gen-next director are trying something that they want to make movie upon, not just for the front benchers.

Unfortunately, the movie this week we are reviewing is the old wine in new bottle. A traingular love story, archaic dilemma of girl; whether to marry a boy she loves or the ones her family likes, return of hero from the death bed, etc are some of the beaten to death plots in both Indian Cinema and Nepali Cinema. The movie has striking resemblance of early 90s Shahrukh Khan, Rishi Kapoor & Divya Bharati starrer Deewana. Story written Dinesh Neupane has though cleverly introduced the subplots from Bollywood movies like ‘Socha Na Tha’, ‘Aandaaz’, ‘Woh Saat Din’, etc to make the movie look different. Unfortunately, due to the numerous loopholes in the script, mediocre acting and average music the movie falls flat the smells the dust even from the first day in the theaters.

The traingular love story of Shaugaat (Ramit Dhungana), Sargaam & Manjari (Jharana Thapa), Vivek (Nikhil Uprety) begins with Sargaam fleeing away from home to avoid family pressure to marry Vivek to her grandparents village. During a bus journey she meets Shaugaat and they fall in love with each other. Shaugaat is a captain in Nepali Army, he too falls for Sargaam, and they make promise to marry soon. Unfortunately bad news arrives to Sargaam regarding death of captain Shaugaat during clash with rebels. Heart broken Sargaam, who is known as Manjari to Vivek settles down with Vivek. Due to twists and turns, Shaugaat returns back and destiny brings three of them together.

What would Manjari do now ?

Directed by Ramji Lamichane, Bidaai is nothing but regular late 80s melodrama with heavy costume and make up influenced by Indian daily soaps.
Director has not at all been creative enough to depict anything more than what is written in the script. You feel like watching some kind of street drama while watching the movie. Storywise, there are too many loop holes in the script.
Like main protagonists still using snail mail for communication when Mobile Network, Email has reached to many parts of the country.
Actress going to the bed with full make and ornament clad makes mockery of the whole situation.
When will director actually look their movie outside of the camera lens and realize what is digestible to audience and what not ?

Cinematography is average. Action director has been limited by Nikhil’s same old stunts, showing nothing new which could be called as ‘Paisa Wasool’.
Musicwise apart from the title song you hardly remember any other song from the movie. Pramod Dhunga seems to be lacking good words to play with for the songs.

To sum up, Bidaai is a poor fare, which you can bid Goodbye without watching it.

Rating: 1.0/5.0

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