Wedding Season

Summary

Asha (Pallavi Sharda)is a modern career-driven woman whose parents are bothered about her love life. Her mother, Suneeta (Veena Sood), takes matters into her hands by creating a dating site profile for Asha as she accepted and set the dates as well. Asha ends up bonding with, liking, and loving Ravi (Suraj Sharma)as they spend more time together, uncovering hopes, secrets, and aspirations.

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Takeaway

"Don't be so selfish. Do this for your parents." Asha said, trying to convince Ravi to fake date her for the numerous wedding invitations this wedding season. They go with this plan after their actual date fails, as Asha was not interested at all and actively tried to sabotage and dismiss it. The eligible bachelors and ladies are watched intensely as they operate in a close-knit community. There's a lot of social pressure on the parents and, therefore on the children.

Like many people, Asha and Ravi love their parents but need a sense of individuality. The parents want them to be happy no matter what their perceived version of that may be. Their parents were elated to see them together for each wedding as many believe a career can fade, but a husband and family are forever, as one of the aunties said. Asha's parents mean well and hope for her happiness, as Asha's mom noted Ravi brought so much joy to her life. There are all kinds of parents but they wanted her to have a balance with her career, not to drop one or the other fully.

Ravi weighs "Your parents, Happiness," insinuating your happiness is more important after watching the vows of a couple whose parents did not support their union but chose each other happily. This happened to Suneeta as well as her parents did not approve of her even associating with who she loved before her arranged marriage to Vijay (Rizwan Manji), who she ended up loving, but she still remembers him from time to time. Ravi said, "When I was a kid, everything I did was for my parents. Right? Everything. Except music. Music was for me…".

Side-note

Asha went through a heartbreak, took it hard, and made a hard change. She was hesitant to open up again but slowly did and even more as she was comfortable around Ravi. Fear is normal. As Ravi said, "everybody's scared." Timmy Turner's dad (of Fairly Odd Parents) once said, "human intimacy, the scariest thing of all" as well. It makes sense to be scared because many people have their trauma, and uncertainty is not comforting either. You have a fear of betrayal, fear of fully giving yourself to someone, fear of repetition, fear of opening up, and more. However, all you can do is hope and try, no matter the outcome. "Now you just gotta own what you want, listen to your heart, and just let your love be greater than your fear", Ravi said.

Faves

Asha(Pallavi Sharda), Ravi(Suraj Sharma), Priya(Arianna Afsar)…honestly, everyone. I enjoyed this movie, and it's my favourite of the recent watches.

This was originally written in my "Valentine's Day and Some Movies" write-up.

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