Sui Dhaaga
Year: 2018
Director: Sharat Kataria
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Anushka Sharma

Sui Dhaaga is a story of small people with small aspirations; people who have almost forgotten to dream, let alone dream big.

It is centered on the lives of a young couple who have been living under the same roof without having time for each other; the man (Varun Dhawan) is happy to be the full-time Man-Friday cum part-time jester for his employer’s family, and the wife (Anushka Sharma) is playing a dutiful daughter-in-law to a cranky father-in-law and a perpetually harassed mother-in-law.

The reticent wife’s hurt, angry words spark the flame of ambition in her unassuming, unambitious husband to make him leave his paltry job and start a small roadside tailoring joint. The venture starts succeeding but the success brings more troubles and brickbats, rather than happiness and laurels. With the big garments company in the town trying to gobble up their budding business, will the husband-wife team muster courage to stand up against the big guns? Will these talented small-time artisans ever succeed in the fashion-biz driven by glamour and money?

With insightful portrayal of small-town lives and melding a bit of sweet fantasy with bitter ground reality, Sui Dhaaga keeps you engaged throughout the film. Anushka is superb as the quiet lady with fire in her belly and Varun gives it his all to play the happy-go-lucky small-town garment-maker. The veterans Raghubir Yadav and Yamini Das are brilliant as the ageing traditionalist parents.

Despite its rather predictable and manipulative story-telling, the film makes its mark through some memorable performances and many deft tongue-in-cheek sociocultural swipes. Writer-director Sharat Katariya had earlier given us a gem in Dum Lagake Haisha. Sui Dhaaga may not be in the same class but it is yet another heartwarming, rooted in the soil film. It makes you smile, reflect and root for the underdogs caught up in dreary daily grind, who take a leap of faith, and finally learn to love and dream big!

Rating

3 stars