Film Review
As is clear in the title, this movie is about second marriage. This is the story about two single parents and their grown up son and daughter respectively. The grown up son of a widower father (Suneel Narang played by Mohit Chauhan) finds a life partner for his daddy in a divorced mother (Shoma Upadhyay played by Charu Rohatgi).
Set against an urban background this story explores the complexities of human emotions which reflect in man-woman relationships. It has romance, comic relief and subtle criticism of our socio-cultural surroundings but at the core of it, it is human drama
The film kicks off when Akshay, young IT professional from Delhi; only child of a single parent Suneel Narang embarks on a journey to get his father, a widower; married so to finally put an end to his prolonged loneliness. Co-incidentally in Jaipur, a vibrant young girl Poonam is on the same hunt to find a partner for her mother, Shoma; whom she’s seen as a divorcee since childhood. They get in touch with each other through a matrimonial website named ‘secondmarriage.com’ and after initial denial of the idea by their parents they finally sail through and get they married.
Poonam and Shoma then join Akshay and Suneel into a new adequate flat in Gurgaon and a distinguished family scenario arises for the four, filled with a new cook hailing from a rustic background, Bihaari and a north-eastern maid Flower. Suneel and Shoma are not at ease with each other to start with but gradually spark of romance start to fly off. Poonam and Akshay who’d become good friends from the word go and who themselves are lonely souls with bitter memories; are happy to discover a feeling which always eluded them – the joy of a family. But, little does anyone know the course of destiny and upheaval which it is to bring to their family and which shall germinate from the seed of love!
It’s when Poonam and Akshay find themselves in love with each other after a night of irrepressible emotions which result into an inconceivable event; that the happiness of the four goes for a toss.
When Akshay and Poonam find themselves in an awkward situation, both of them decide best to be away from each other.
It becomes more complicated with a third love story blooms between the family cook and the maid. This is just amusing. Love and romance all around in the family!
The story takes sharp turns and explore dark zones of the human psyche before the characters finally square up for an unaccustomed but fairly logical solution to their situation.
The young couple Sayani Gupta and Vishal Nayak are excellent. Mohit Chauhan and Charu Rohatgi as the single parents have quite a bit of drama and emotions and they have managed it well.
Second Marriage has a fairly decent script and screenplay, supported by able performances from the lead characters. Beautifully portrayed are those intimate moments when the kids attempt to convince their respective parents to take this decision. It has an interesting subject matter and the first half just breezes through, while the latter part gets somewhat long-winded.
Cast:
Suneel Narang – Mohit Chauhan
Poonam Upadhayay Sayani Gupta
Shoma Upadhayay – Charu Rohatgi
Akshay Narang – Vishal Nayak
Beeja – Ankit Sharma
Nikita – Kanisha Malhotra
Prerna – Sapanpreet Kaur
Bhowmik – Saptaraj Chakraborty
Bihari – Manjeet Tiger
Flower – Nikita More
Kautuk – Jaidev Parashar
Manav Mehta – Young Akshay
Syna Anand – Young Poonam
Subhash Ahuja – Bhowmik’s father
Anoop Ghosh – Kautuk’s father
Neeraj Kapoor – Principle
Raman Atre
Rajat Bhalla
Credits & Crew:
Studio – Vin Mehta Films Pvt Ltd.
Produced By Vinod Mehta
Directed By Gaurav Panjwani
Written By Dinkar Sharma
Screenplay By Dinkar Sharma
Co- Producers – Varun Kumar, Kishore Kumawat
Original Music by Aditya Agarwal, Manan Munjal
Cinematography by Yogesh Sharma
Lyricist – Aditya Agarwal, Malay
Creative Producer – Varun Kumar
Film Editing by Gaurav Panjwani
Casting Director – Deepak Mehrotra
Art Direction by – Priyanka Agarwal
Costume Design – Canta Dandlaney, Anit Sindwani
Assistant Directors – Shiva Varma, Saptaraj Chakraborty, Vasundhara Pareekh, Raibhandare Ravi