**Spoilers ahead**
Honestly, I love movies that revolve around friendships. Three or four friends sailing through life, advising each other, fighting and then getting back together again. The last movie that made friendship the plot, got people talking and became a cult movie was Dil Chahta Hai. And now there’s Veere Di Wedding.
But the selling point here is that this friendship brings to light what some urban women will totally relate to. After movies like Pyaar Ka Punchnama, this movie is a breather for all those who came out saying, “Why doesn’t Bollywood have similar movies on women friendships?”
Your wish has been granted, ladies.
Conversation Starter? Oh Yeah
Women discussing sex in Bollywood is a big NO unless you're an Anurag Kashyap heroine of course. But ‘Veere Di Wedding’ is a game changer of sorts. Four leading ladies in one packed drama, unabashedly discussing their sexual encounters and orgasms in a commercial movie. Wow, have we heard this before? Until now, it did look like men go out hunting and women just ‘wear their laaj like an ornament’.
Just Say It, Sex Is an Important Part of Married Life
Turns out, a good sex life can make or break a marriage. Swara’s character hastens into marriage and realises six months in that they don’t like each other too much. End result being — no happy married life and no sex. Swara’s husband catches her red-handed cheating on him with a vibrator. And voila, he starts blackmailing her. Why, you’ll ask? Because which daughter will have the courage or the ‘unsanskari’ attitude to tell this absolutely horrible masturbation story to her parents?
Her neighbour aunties blame her for having an extra-marital affair and being a drug addict, all because she’s left her husband and lives with her parents.
But Veere Di Wedding does something I don’t think I’ve seen before. When Swara manages to break the news to her parents, they laugh it off and support her, which does strain credulity a little, unfortunately.
This ‘Veere’ Doesn’t ‘Save Herself for Marriage’
BREAKING NEWS!
In India, sex is taboo. And a single woman who’s sexually active is reduced to nothing but a ‘sl*t’. A lot of Bollywood movies have reinforced the idea of “saving yourself for marriage” which, by the way, applies mostly to women. But in Veere Di Wedding you have Sonam who defies norms left, right and centre. Sonam’s character has casual sex with a man she doesn’t even know on a first-name basis – did someone say ‘regrets’? What regrets? What’s wrong with a woman knowing what she wants?
Basically, after years of Bollywood being caught in movies centred around male friendships like 3 Idiots, Rock On , Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and Yaarna... Veere Di Wedding is a refreshing change for the womenfolk who see themselves in these four characters.
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