Whatever !

So, I watched this movie "Manmarziyaan" today as my random YT browsing led me to this movie recently. Was surprised, I didn't know until then that this 2018-released movie existed.

Completed watching it a while ago. So, the title translates to "Wishes of the heart" or may I say, "Whatever is the wish of the heart". But this movie is like "Whatever"...I mean like W H A A T E V V E R! Really? Is one's heart so hopeless that it wanders in whichever direction it wants? Pyaar aur dil kaa kuch mathlab hee nahin hotha hain? This is one of the shittiest senseless (in order to sound decent) stories I came across, I'd say. And this was not even a movie in "fiction" genre or some period movie which might have made sense at a different time. I don't know in which time and space this movie makes sense.

Quickly checked the headlines of the reviews after I watched the movie. So, they go on to say it is a different take at love and relationships. Really? Is this a love story at all? Isn't it an out and out story of lust? With all the three people involved there? Love and Lust are two different things, people! They are not one and the same.

I can at least understand the characters of Rumi & Vicky (played by Taapsee Pannu & Vicky Kaushal), but I can't, for the life of me, understand the role of Robbie. Like, you know two people are (apparently) madly in love (or let's say, in an affair) and then you come in between and even before they can make up their mind and decide either which way, you consciously try to break it up and then marry the girl? Ok done, it makes sense until here at least. But then, later you be so nice to a person who is not at all interested in you? Who on earth does that? Ok granted until here. You then go further and tell your wife, "You STILL have a choice!" What on earth does THAT mean? You could have given that choice before marriage, right? You could have let them be, give them their time and then let them decide.

But no, that isn't gonna happen right? Not here, at least in this story! These are two people who cannot decide forever. The guy is a commitment phobe and the girl decides so fast, that she changes her mind every now and then even in the eleventh hour. So Mr. Robbie, the saviour steps in and decides for them. Decides for all the three in fact and somehow marries the girl.

Mr. Robbie asks his Mom, "How can you decide that the girl is a trouble just by looking at the pictures?" I ask him instead, "How then did you decide that you love the girl and that you want to lead the rest of your life with her, just by looking at those very pics?" At one point of the movie, after knowing that his wife cheated on him, he bursts out (JUST for a moment) as he should. And next day, he says, "Sorry for yesterday! I overstepped." And thaat moment, I tell you, that moment, the movie got on to my nerves. Seriously, who should apologize whom dude?

There's something seriously wrong with the human race itself. I'm tired of these stories where people are extra nice to those who don't give them a damn...and on the contrary do not value enough, nice people. So there is nothing nice, nothing good or bad...It's all manmarziyaan...There's something seriously eccentric with this "mann" of the human race and it's probably time this eccentricity is fixed or I will go crazy now!

This trait of trying to spoil things to invite pain, running after those who are running away from you, loving something that is elusive to you - this is something out and out eccentric, but apparently normal to those who do this. As for me, love is when two people can open up to each other and be honest, be able to spend time with each other, be able to lead their lives with each other. Sure, in reality these eccentric people do not get married to their elusive lovers, but they still seem to be clinging to them. I can only pity them, what else can I do.

Anyway, coming back to the movie. The role of Robbie does step in much to save the other two roles, otherwise they might have been on a different hyperbole (who knows anyway!) So, what should have happened before marriage, happens after marriage. Actually, this guy Robbie was determined to live with Rumi, so he does it, he did not have a better choice. Just that, the way it is shown to happen, seems so senseless...as if marriage doesn't hold any value. Actually, that's not the case in reality coz most ppl do value marriage. They respect it or at least fear it (given the value society places on it). In fact, people in society respect marriage so much that they start disrespecting love*. But in this movie, marriage loses it's meaning like never before. Just remove marriage out of the equation and the picture does begin to make some sense.

(*I often wondered, isn't there a middle way in reality. As in, if one falls out of love with their spouse, and find somebody whom they truly love, can't they end the marriage in an amicable way, thereby respecting both the marriage and love.)

The acting of the lead actors, music and other technical expertise was definitely wasted on this story. But then, that's what movies are. They bring on to celluloid any story...just about any random fancy of human brain. And in that sense, this movie is a great job. It does bring out the fancy in a great way. I wonder if there is a better way to portray it.

A great dialogue is also wasted on this story. But some YouTuber made a great use of it anyway :)

There's a great deal of pain and suffering on earth in general, and more so when it comes to relationships. And that's such a pity, such a shame, for it's people who make a great (twisted and complicated) deal of simple things in life.

The only thing that made sense to me in the movie was its climax. Some sensible 10 minutes after 2 hours of senseless drama. And oh yeah, the line that runs in the trailers makes great sense too - "Love isn't complicated. People are!"

And yes, for all her baggage is worth, Rumi in the movie was redeemed with a few answers and just a simple friend request at the end, how easy!