‘Wedding Pullav’ comprises of everything predictable and even with new faces it still bursts out with staleness. The same overused theme fails to bring out any kind of freshness.  It is the same old big fat Punjabi wedding and has nothing new to offer. The love between Anushka and Aditya remains to be an unsolved mystery from the first to the last. There are tears and showdowns along with pre-nuptial jitters,  but Pradhan is known for his glossy camera work is unable to pull this one through. Don’t watch it, as it offers the same story of two best friends falling in love….

Bland and unenticing, Wedding Pullav is a concoction that is too stale and sloppy to tingle even the least evolved of cinematic taste buds. There is much in the film that defies logic. Wedding Pullav is anything but a befitting directorial debut for an accomplished technician who has lensed films like Parinda and Rang De Basanti, among many other memorable titles. Wedding Pullav appears to have been made by people high on cheap liquor. They believe that overkill works best. The rest of the world knows it doesn’t. Love triangles click only when the actors in the key roles can make the audience believe that sweet nothings aren’t as vacuous as they sound. The leads of Wedding Pullav do not possess that power. They only make the film’s string of implausible scenes much worse than they already are. Verdict: Wedding Pullav is badly cooked. Dig into it at your own risk.

It is a misnomer, though. ‘Pullav’, a well-made one at any rate, is meant to be seasoned with the right condiments and presented with every rice grain separate, fluffy and aromatic. This one is more like an overcooked ‘khhichdi’, where everything slops into each other. The result is most unappetizing.  Everything is predictable. These are new faces, and yet everything they do smacks of staleness. Overused themes can be infused with freshness only if the treatment is right: here, all elements are borrowed from older films and used so clunkily as to extinguish all freshness.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and My Best Friend's Wedding revamped, this pulav is probably the most stale wedding dish you'll have ever. The film follows the standard Punjabi wedding film template to the T, then giving it the cliched 'pyaar dosti hai' twist to infuse novelty. The end result is so bland, predictable and juvenile that you'll probably hate the joy of weddings or the concept of love altogether. Shot in picturesque Thailand, we wish the film had a stronger content and some substance. You don't relate to or feel for any character or their dilemmas. When friends fight, they randomly take off to London. Also, while everybody keeps harping on love and friendship, they fail to evoke any form of emotion. All you see is actors with zero chemistry and acting skills singing songs, dancing, strolling on the beach, flaunting fancy wedding clothes and bikinis, flashing dimples and spouting gyaan on marriage. Wedding Pullav seems like a never-ending wedding video of an acquaintance, you feel nothing for. It's loaded with mandatory party/ wedding songs, honeymoon jokes, friendly banter, mummiji's drama, et al. What the film lacks is heart and scrumptious food!