WHEN HARI GOT MARRIED: A Film Review (Edited)

Tradition required that the couple-to-be were not supposed to meet each other before the actual ceremony. But our Hari is smart enough to secure his future wife’s phone number from one of her relatives and soon we see Hari making call after call to his sweetheart to the point that one of the local police officers admonish Hari for using a handset while driving.

‘One falls in love even to a rock if he keeps talking like I do.’ Declares Hari when is asked if he loves his future wife. While telling the story of a taxi driver, the filmmaker duo didn’t miss to highlight Dharamsala also being an important habitat for people from all over the world in the region. In fact, Dharamsala itself has become an interesting character in the film. The local Gaddis, Tibetan refugees, Western tourists, and international spiritual seekers are all intertwined in such a way that they are now impossible to survive without one another.

Apart from numerous humorous incidents and fun-filled scenes, we also get to see some of the emotionally loaded moments that will surely bring tears to your eyes. The bride’s heart-wrenching cry when she is being taken away on shoulder-held doli, the poor father’s blank gaze while paying marriage bills, and above all Harry’s passionate hugging to his newly born baby and wife at the end of the film will surely melt your heart.