Decoding 'woman-oriented' popular cinema

Raazi and Veere Di Wedding are just two films that have worked. There is nothing more to be read into them

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar 

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar

Last Saturday night, I was part of a gang of five women who trudged across to see Shashanka Ghosh’s Veere Di Wedding. It was a total laugh riot.

The story of four friends is a buddy film turned on its head — the buddies are all girls instead of a bunch of boys (a la Dil Chahta Hai, 2001) or a bunch of girls and boys (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, 2008). They swear, talk dirty, discuss their sex lives or the lack of it and help each other deal with their individual crises. There is no depth to the story, no context to the characters and the whole look of the girls and their homes is ...

First Published: Wed, June 06 2018. 05:52 IST