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A movie that's neither here nor there 'Veere Di Wedding' is not the kind of wedding you wanna attend this week. With all the excitement around the release of this feature, the movie does not even come close to the hype generated by it. What contributes to this mess is that there is not a single stand out performance that could have carried the movie somewhere.

It starts off with the four friends discussing their plans after finishing their school played by four highly overacting teens. The movie then jumps 10 years later, where Rishab(Sumeet Vyas) proposes marriage to Kalindi Puri(Kareena Kapoor) who has no plans of marriage but yet reluctantly agrees. Then follows the 'Siyapa' around the big fat Punjabi wedding intertwining with the real life problems of the Veeres.

The movie has no real sense of direction with everything coming to an expected happy ending eventually. The characters seem mingled up and a couple of them could have been interchanged. The performances are average while Swara Bhaskar's(the most talented of them all) is a complete waste. 'Veere Di Wedding' is a struggle eventually giving up rather than defying the challenge.

Bollywood's obsession with romantic movies is well-known. Sometimes this results in some outstanding movies while most of the times the result is disappointing. 'October' however belongs to none of the above categories. It is a beautiful movie depicting the hard truth of life in a very mature way.

'October' is the story of Shuili(Banita Sandhu), a hotel management intern who one day suffers a horrendous accident and fades into a coma. This has an intense effect on Dan(Varun Dhawan), a co-worker of Shiuli. He along with Shiuli's family starts taking care of her selflessly being a big support to her mother Prof. Vidya Iyer(Gitanjali Rao). The movie conveys the contrasting emotions of both Dan and Vidya with absolute innocence and grace.

Shoojit Sircar keeps expanding his repertoire with each of his movie being completely parallel. He makes 'October' seem so close to reality with no manipulation or over-compensation of emotions. The theme of the movie makes the cinematography even more mesmerizing. A special mention to Avik Mukopadhyay, the cinematographer of the film who has captured the winter of Delhi and made it seem delightful. Varun's character is a simple, caring, immature adult trying to stabilize his career and he seems average throughout. Banita, making her debut doesn't have much to work with although Gitanjali as Vidya pleasing bringing vulnerability of her character to the screen painstakingly. 'October' is definitely another of Shoojit's gem that might well go under the radar if it's not given necessary spotlight.