Satyaprem (Kartik Aaryan), who hails from a humble background, desperately needs to get married regardless of having no profession. His eyes are set on Katha (Kiara Advani), a woman manner out of his league, who belongs to a rich household. After a breakup and a suicide try that adopted, she is below strain to get married to ‘save the face of the household’.
His father is satisfied {that a} naive and unemployed son-in-law could be an awesome match for his ‘spoiled’ daughter and so arranges a match and provides his enterprise, a snacks and savories showroom, as dowry to Satyaprem.
The primary half of the movie comfortably nestles in its romantic comedy style with the viewers at the hours of darkness as to the place the movie is headed. Because the movie progresses, the romantic comedy style takes a backseat, and a severe tone, a urgent problem, units in. Satyaprem finds out that Katha was raped by her former boyfriend and needed to bear an abortion. Her household, unaware of the rape, accuses her of being ‘morally unfastened’ and forces her into marriage to avoid wasting themselves the ’embarrassment’.
Affected by trauma, Katha finds herself unable to consummate her marriage as reminiscences of her assault come speeding again each time she comes bodily near her husband.
It’s then that her husband grows a conscience and decides to change into the hero of her life – the identical husband who by no means cared to be financially impartial or didn’t hesitate to say no to dowry.
The partly problematic movie that tries onerous to be an entertainer even because it preaches righteousness finally ends up oversimplifying a severe problem and masking it whereas ending up neither right here nor there.
Kiara Advani and Kartik Aaryan’s chemistry displays properly on display screen and Gajraj Rao as Aaryan’s father stays in his aspect. Nonetheless, his portrayal comes off as one other drawback issue as within the first half; he provokes his son to go after the lady and allure her. Nonetheless, when he learns concerning the rape, he worries about his popularity and blames the lady’s household for hiding the actual fact. Supriya Pathak Kapur is but once more at her Gujarati greatest as she portrays an overbearing matriarch who helps her daughter-in-law.
The movie might have elevated its plot by avoiding the dramatisation, simplification and Bollywoodification of a delicate subject. Maybe its Nationwide Award-winning director Sameer Vidwans (whose Anandi Gopal received a Nationwide Award for greatest function movie on social points) wished to spotlight one other vital problem of the excessive variety of unreported rape instances in India.
Movie: Satyaprem Ki Katha
Director: Sai Kabir
Forged: Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani
Score: 3/5
