Pati Patni Aur Woh movie review: Kartik Aaryan film is a patchwork for damage done by the original (original) (raw)

Mudassar Aziz's Pati Patni Aur Woh is a fun and entertaining watch and should not be missed to erase all the bad memories created by the original one released in 1978.

Pati Ptani Aur Woh stars Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Panday in the lead roles.

What do you picture when you hear the words, Pati Patni Aur Woh? A privileged husband, a helpless wife and a modern damsel. The new Mudassar Aziz film is everything but not what BR Chopra showed us in 1978 film of the same name. Starring Kartik Aaryan, Ananya Panday and Bhumi Pednekar, Pati Patni Aur Woh is a modern take on the age-old concept of infidelity.

Here, the guy, Abhinav Tyagi AKA Chintu Tyagi played by Kartik Aaryan, is not a usual confident casanova but an IIT topper and a government employee, who has been in only one relationship before his marriage and is still not over his first girlfriend who left him in just 1.5 month. Right after securing a good government job, Abhinav is asked to get married by his father and made to meet Vedika Tripathi (Bhumi Pednekar).

Vedika is a modern-day independent and confident women, who doesn't shy away to tell her prospective partner that she likes sex. Disappointed by her relationship with a rebel ex-boyfriend, she now wants to have a secure life and therefore wants to get married to the man of her parents' choice. In bits and pieces, Pati Patni Aur Woh's Vedika reminds you of Kangana Ranaut's Tanu from Anand L Rai's Tanu Weds Manu.

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Abhinav and Vedika are married off and start their new life in a house in a government residents' society of Kanpur. Just like any other marriage, everything is perfect in the initial days. There is love, sex and good food, but the charm of a new wedding fades in some time when Vedika also starts working in a coaching class as a Physics teacher.

And then comes Tapasya Singh, played by Ananya Panday, a fashion designer from Delhi who wants to set up a leather products manufacturing unit in Kanpur. Abhinav is asked by his boss to help Tapasya find a good piece of land to set-up her project. And that's what he does with regularly roaming in the city, trying out local street food and casual flirting. Abhinav, who is bored of his three-year-old marriage wants a little spice in his life and therefore starts an extramarital affair with this 'Dilli ki Diva'. And here begins the misadventures of Engineer Chintu Tyagi.

He is reprimanded by his childhood friend Fahim Rizvi, played by the very charming Aparshakti Khurana, that it can hurt both his wife and his new girlfriend. To which, Abhinav replies with the controversial monologue that went viral right after the release of the trailer. As promised by the makers, the "misogynistic" piece has been slightly edited by replacing the term 'balatkari' with a less controversial word.

Mudassar Aziz's take on BR Chopra's 1978 release is contemporary and has improved a lot on the misogynistic tone with which the original was made. The USP of the new film is its dialogues which flow like fresh air. Some of the best dialogues are given to Aparshakti Khurana whose effortless dialogue delivery makes it more enjoyable. "Miyan hum toh highlights dene aaye the, yahaan toh live telecast chal raha hai," is just one among many gems that comes out of the Stree actor's mouth. The dialogue and screenplay credits also go to director Mudassar Aziz.

While Pati Patni Aur Woh is a good one-time watch, there is nothing to take home. Of late, we have had a high dose of films set in a small town, especially in Uttar Pradesh. Every such film has a joke on the current political scenario in the state which sometimes gets monotonous. However, in the introductory scene when the narrator says, "Aisa koi prashan nahi jiska uttar Uttar Pradesh main nahi hai," strikes the right chord with the audiences.

The performances by the lead actors are satisfactory and not out-of-the-box. Except for Kartik Aaryan's look there is nothing new we see in Abhinav Tyagi. Bhumi Pednekar shines here and there and that is because of the kind of role she was given. She needs to work on her dialogue delivery which appears repetitive in all the characters played by her recently. The way she talks with her mouth left open is same whether she is playing a sixty-year old woman from a village in Baghpat or a lawyer from Kanpur or the latest an MSc degree-holder from Lucknow. Ananya Panday is bland and boring with no spice.

The music album of Pati Patni Aur Woh boasts of remakes of several popular tracks like Tony Kakkar's Dheeme Dheeme and Govinda and Raveena Tandon's Akhiyon Se Goli Mare. Apart from these, no other song stands out.

Pati Patni Aur Woh is a fun and entertaining watch and should not be missed to erase all the bad memories created by the original one. The film has a few surprises which are not reason enough to make the film a compulsory watch. If you are free this weekend and want to enjoy some time with friends and family, go watch this film with them and come home unaffected.

We’re going with 2.5 stars out of 5.

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Published By:

Jyoti Kanyal

Published On:

Dec 6, 2019

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