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Daawat-e-Ishq movie review: Parineeti-Aditya's recipe is worth trying

Gastronomic love stories are rarely served in Bollywood and director Habib Faisal is now one of them adding his story to the list. Donning a chef's hat, the director steps into his kitchen of film making and uses the available ingredients to make out a sumptuous dish and invites us to a fiesta called Daawat-e-Ishq.

Stars- Aditya Roy Kapur, Parineeti Chopra, Anupam Kher
Director- Habib Faisal
Music director- Sajid-Wajid

So, has he got all the ingredients right? Lets us find it out. Chef Habib has exciting star cast, tempting location and delicious songs as the main dishes on the table. He begins by serving us the starters in form of Hyderabadi Gulrez (Parineeti Chopra), a disillusioned lady fed up with the dowry-seeking men presented by her uncle (Anupam Kher).

Thereafter, we come across Lucknowi Tariq aka Big Boss Hyderi Kebab' (Aditya Roy Kapur) who is as delicious as Lucknow's Tunday kebabs.

Moving over the starters, the main course now we are served is the cute love story mostly set in the city of Nawabs. Gulrez-Tariq's rib-tickling chemistry with traditional recipes of love work as a perfect main course after a mood set by the starters. The duo's exploring the colours of the city and romancing alongside on the streets is as sweet as jalebi'.

However, Habib's screenplay remains a bit fragile. Like a semi-raw chicken takes time to be chewed, the extended narration in the mid tests our patience with usual talks over relationship but finally we digest them with delicious songs served like a glass of wine.

Before the desserts in the end, Habib gives us a surprise dish. The grey shades of Gulrez give the entire organized feasta a welcome twist, which keeps us hooked on our seats. And yes how could we forget the desserts in the end.

Well, whatever Habib has in his junket is surely to be tried once. The director has mixed up the right amount of ingredient to give almost a perfect taste to all the recipes in Daawat-e-Ishq.

Garnish over them is none other than Aditya and Parineeti's impressive performance. Though, we sometimes couldn't digest Adi's made-up Lucknawi dialect but he charms us with his witty and humourous act.

Parineeti Chopra undoubtedly is in love with Lucknow kebabs as this is her second flick after Ishakzaade' shot there. She nails it with her charming appearance.

Songs as already said are here like a glass of wine or any other drink and that fits perfectly in the movie. Our favourite is the title track and Meri Mannat Tu.

Dawat E Ishq Movie Review

This Friday, we have two movies hitting the theatres and one of them includes Dawat-e-Ishq. The said movie is directed by Habib Faisal while the actors in the lead role include Aditya Roy Kapur,Parineeti Chopra, Karan Wahi and Anupam Kher. It is produced by Aditya Chopra (Yash Raj Films) while its music director is Sajid Wajid and the lyrics comes from Kausar Munir. For Karan Wahi, the known TV actor and presenter, this movie would be a special one, as he makes his debut in Bollywood with Dawaat-e-Ishq. The movie was supposed to be released this summer; however, it did witness a couple of changes in release dates, finally seeing the movie hitting on 19th September 2014.

Now, let us check its plot, you have a man called Gulrez Qadir alias Gullu played by Parineeti Chopra. She is a Hyderabadi sales girl at a shoe store, who is simply disillusioned with the emotion of love since she had several bad encounters with dowry seeking men and greedy people. On the other side, you have a man called Taru Haidar, played by Aditya Roy Kapur, he hails from Lucknow, who is known to spread the aroma of different nawabi cuisines and food. His competence to cook well can be judged to a fact that he has the magic in his hand, which can impress anyone and everyone with the taste he puts in his Biryani and irresistible Kebabs. Both these personalities are different to each other belonging to two different cultures. However, they encounter in the quest of the Hyderabadi lady wanting to find his Mr. Right whom she calls her Mister Universe when she enters the restaurant called Big Boss Hyderi Kebab. Their encounters with each other soon end up in creating their own spicy love story that is portrayed wonderfully in the movie called Dawat-e-Ishq.

Now, let us have the gist of the performance of the lead characters discovered here. Let's start with Parineeti Chopra (PC) in the character of a sales girl in Hyderabadi avatar. She is as usual chirpy and bubbly as always and oodles out her energy in anything she does in the movie. As she has worked with Habib Faisal, it was comfortable working with her making her performance speak on the silver screen. She seems good over the movie at least if you compare it with her debut movie Ishaqzaade. On the other side, you have Aditya Roy Kapur, who is an ace actor as far as his two hit movies are concerned. All though both of his earlier movies had similar kind of character, yet the difference you see here, as a Lucknowi Cook has been incredible. He seems doing justice to his character, which speaks about his dexterity and versatile nature. For people like Karan Wahi, it was really nice watching him over the silver screen doing really some justice to his debut character, while Anupam Kher was simply awesome as a typical Hyderabadi father of a young girl like PC.

Talking about the music the duo composers Sajid-Wajid and the lyricist Kausar Munir were successful enough to add the nineties soundtrack in this foodie movie. The singers have really put forth something tangible for the listeners, be it Shreya Ghosal, Sonu Nigam or even the singers likeSunidhi Chauhan and Javed Ali. The different songs and the music have been diverse and soothing backed by creativity of the duo directors. In nutshell, the music brings up the musical flavours of both the royal places of India- Lucknow and Hyderabad coming together in a single sweet package.

Last word - Dawaat-E-Ishq

Let us not forget the Yash Raj Film elements, which is visible in almost all their movies. This is nothing but the love and romance elements, for which the production house is known for. The movie comes with typical Bollywood romance and love tadka, with different shades of spice evident in kitchen perfectly interwoven in a beautiful romantic B Town movie. Thanks to Aditya Chopra who is been known to put these elements with perfection unlike his late father. Above all, the soothing music, incredible soundtrack, backed by incredible overseas locations of Switzerland and Spain simply would mesmerize the audience. The movie is backed with different script of love and romance and thus could be called as a watchable one. With favorable cast discovered in the movie, it is likely to attract a wide audience thus doing good business over the box office. Considering so many elements, we can give the rating of 3.5.

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Daawat E Ishq should lead as it has more universal appeal than Khoobsurat which seems mainly for the premium multiplexes. The Khoobsorat in 1980 which this film is based did well in 4-5 cities but as the budget was low that was enough for recovery. So remaking a film that did not work too well initially with a weaker cast may not be the best idea. Daawat E Ishq could have some potential though will be on word of mouth and remains to be seen if it can become that elusive hit film which is evaded the industry since Singham Returns.