Sui Dhaaga

*ing: Varun Dhawan, Anushka Sharma, Raghubir Yadav

Rated: 6/10

Sab Bhadiya Hai — both with the film and its tagline. Indeed, everything in the film is good — Anushka is good, sweet and completely wife material; Varun is good, sweeter and perfect husband as well as beta material; their mission of establishing a tailoring label with world class recognition is good too, in fact, too good to be true. But true it is, thanks to films encasing Government initiatives, this one being skill India and Made in India campaigns of the Narendra Modi Government.

So far so good! From a burdened family struggling to make ends meet, it is hard to fathom a way into the dizzying world of fashion designers but the simple couple makes it to the top despite all odds. Varun as a no-good worker but a fantastic tailor without a sewing machine or any aspirations to rise in life tries hard to fit into the rustic, small town role but the effort keeps showing up.

Anushka, despite the deglamourised look and the sweet face, also shows up the chinks in her pallu-ed sari avatar of a perfect bahu, a silent wife and an anxious woman wanting her husband to do better than he does in life.

Raghubir Yadav is the only actor in this well meaning film on an unlikely start-up success, who merges into his role of an angsting, lower middle class, retired, reconciled father of two sons.

So is there chemistry between Anushka and Varun? Well, enough if you are told that they have not touched each other as husband wife. Also, the film is not about their chemistry, It is more about existentialism and those rabbits under the caps which come into the hands of only a few of the billion aspiring people in India’s convulsing middle class. This couple works hard and gets a brand of success that makes the climax exactly as unbelievable as the entire film and the circumstances of its characters are believable, commonplace and routine.

You may or may not like this good, simple film depending on how much of simplicity you can take.