In doing so, Dum Laga Ke Haisha sneakily shed a light on the frustrations and resentments that the weight of aspirational manhood inflicts on innumerable small-town men across the country. It was the fact that for the first time, a young heroine completely refused to treat it as an inadequacy (unlike in Shaandar). Like this scene, what made the film revolutionary wasn’t just that it starred an overweight actor essaying its overweight heroine (or in film parlance: a “brave” film). In a way, this precious little scene sets the tone for what Katariya intends to achieve with Dum Laga Ke Haisha. They look away disapprovingly, but the damage is done.

But to onlookers, this autonomy over her body is the reason for their glaring embarrassment. Just as her in-laws arrive at the venue, Sandhya joins the other brides-to-be and gyrates deliriously to the music: Enjoying herself and acutely unconscious of her body, even as Prem, his friends, and her in-laws stare at her in horror.įor Sandhya, her weight poses no great constraints. The setting is quietly comic a teeming community centre in Haridwar where Sandhya and Prem are one of the many couples whose marriage is getting officiated that day.

There’s a scene in Sharat Katariya’s Dum Laga Ke Haisha where an elated and overweight Sandhya Verma (an impressive Bhumi Pednekar) dances with pure abandon minutes before getting married to the distraught Prem Prakash Tiwari ( Ayushmann Khurrana).

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