No matter how much you stuff yourself with it. A side dish can be the perfect complement to a good meal. This could've been a real seven-course fiesta but the misguided vision and thanda drama reduce this feature film to side dish status. Even Sajid Wajid's tasteful music goes to sheer waste. But good films are best cooked with good recipes.Įven the spicy and spirited performances by Parineeti and Aditya fail to satiate one's appetite for real drama. Some scenes like the timely unfurling of the sale banner and the reflection of guilt in the train window glass are a testament to a director in top form. That's why Faisal's top level direction and some very nice performances by Parineeti Chopra and Aditya Roy Kapur end up feeling like thanda samosas. No amount of good cooking can save the wrong choice of ingredients.
But the mouth-watering concept of food and love is brushed aside in the form of two songs and a few montages. Writer Habib Faisal got the recipe wrong. But can that truly satiate any love for gastronomy? But all it does is to serve up a few seekhs of kebabs and a little roadside chaat. A two-hour film called Daawat-e-Ishq could've served ambrosia and we would've fallen in love. daawat-e-ishq (english: festival of love) is a 2014 indian comedy drama film directed by habib faisal and produced by aditya chopra under the banner of yash raj films. Sounds appetizing? It is for exactly 10 minutes. It's here that kebabs and biryani and phirni become the flavour of love. When father and daughter execute their plan in Lucknow on the unsuspecting Aditya Roy Kapur and his wealthy hotelier family. The daawat comes much later in the first half of the movie. Planning to catch a money grubbing family on camera asking for hefty money and then extracting her pound of flesh with the anti dowry law of Section 498A. But the moment dowry appears in the form of educational aid to go study in the US, Gulrayz loses the plot. Things turn for the worse when the same happens with a boy and his Jubilee Hills family. The father can only shell out 15 lakhs which is never enough and almost always ends up in a scenario where Kher's honest character is embarrassed and humiliated. The most pressing problem in their life is Gulrayz' marriage and the heavy dowry demands it brings. The mother has long passed away and father daughter are quite the inseparable bunch. There's his very hard working, intelligent and quite beautiful daughter Gulrayz played by Parineeti Chopra. There's a honest to his last nerve-ending kind of father played by Anupam Kher. So the story kicks off with a quintessential Hyderbadi family. "A bride is burnt every hour in our country over dowry". The movie even starts with a disclaimer on the issue. The reality of Daawat-e-Ishq is that it's a film that highlights the social evil of dowry. But not to the extent where food becomes the fabric of love. Why is a film based on dowry and it's ill effects sold on the concept of falling in love over food? Yes the culinary arts influence the lead characters in this film.
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