I could've done without the unnecessarily long voice-over narration in the beginning, but once the film decided to film again, I quite liked it. The mom and grandma were great, and I didn't even mind the In The Dream House ending*.
If nothing else, it made me want to work more on my writing.
*iykyk
This movie opens with a literal TLDR, a quote by Karan Johar that says "It's about loving your parents". And if that's not on the nose enough, the patriarch, played by Amitabh Bachan, is named Yash.
This movie is ridiculous. The cars. The mansions in London. The helicopters. It's fucking ridiculous.
But I'll be damned if this ridiculous manipulative melodrama doesn't bring tears to my eyes every time.
Spoiler alert: This is not a good film.
I wanted to like this so much, but five minutes in, I knew that wasn't going to happen. Sandi Tan the narrator has no introspection whatsoever. The younger Sandi was shown to be selfish and self-absorbed, and at one point, older Jasmine said to present-day Sandi -- "You used to be an asshole". The thing is, there was nothing in this film that made me think that older Sandi is any less…
