Aditya Chopra's Punjab moves out of the khet to a well lit Amritsar

It's not the khet, and women running in coloured dupattas to a farmer. The camera has moved to a milieu that is infested with people emulating everything Western. It's still concentrating heavily on tradition, and family between the toxic culture we call 'wannabe' and tries hard to find the in-betweens, who struggle to balance familyhood and 'love'. Chopra tells us, as always, love can be found within tradition and the walls of the house.

The movie opens at the Golden Temple, and it forms a concrete space inside the movie. The emphasis on religion, and godly presence is not just inside the title, it's all over. The lover is not just physical, he/she is someone in whom you find God. Holy Cow! The movie's big dose on love, pedestalising the lover, is uncanny in these times. It is unreal. But, Bollywood believes a lot in pedestalising lovers, so it's taken for granted. However, if you've caught a show on Star World on geeks paired with girls, who are good looking, so to speak, the concept is pretty much the same that how the twain engage with each other.

The husband does everything outside of his imagination to please his wife, to win her love. He becomes 'Raj', which is meta-cinematical (if there's such a word after meta-textual), considering we have known Mr.Khan as 'Raj' in n number of movies.

The movie also seems like a remnant picked up from Aaja Nachle (Chopra camp). In that movie, Vinay Pathak's role is similar to Mr.Khan's character in this movie. The boring husband marrying a vivacious woman, hence love's demise at the very beginning. The movie robs us of our imagination soon, when the wife joins the yawwwn dance competition (drama in Aaja Nachle). The husband sniffs opportunity, and prepares to woo the daylights out of her (lighting up her life, by proposing through peculiar use of electricity).

The movie is too long for the concept. Some snip, snip should have been done.

Mr.Khan acts well. He makes you feel sad for the middle-class man, but cringe each time he turns up as his alter ego image of 'Raj'. The husband image, he dons well, and pulls it off successfully. Anushka looks pretty, sober, and acts well. But, the movie drags, yawn, yawn and double yawn. But, but, for once, I have patiently sat through the credits of a movie. That's an interesting, and funny bit, one may not want to skip.