Tiku Weds Sheru review- You know what to anticipate from a Bollywood-based film, especially when it comes to the lives of young or background performers attempting to succeed in the competitive industry. Shiraz Afghani, also known as Sheru (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who believes he’s the cat’s whiskers and hams every time he’s in front of the camera, gives you a taste of all that in Tiku Weds Sheru. He works as a pimp to make ends meet while he strives to succeed, despite his sincere desire to leave that life behind.
Movie Details:
Star Cast: Nawazuddin Siddique, Avneet Kaur
Director: Sai Kabir
Runtime: 111 minutes
Produced By: Kangana Ranaut
Cinematography: Fernando Gayesky
Distributed By: Amazon Prime Video
Release date: 23 June 2023
Where to watch? Amazon Prime Video
Storyline:
This is the tale of two aspiring actors who got married for practical reasons. They discover love in one another as they must “compromise” to thrive in Bollywood. Will their mutual support help them succeed in the world?
Tiku Weds Sheru review:
Even though Tiku and Sheru are not supposed to be together, they do. Tiku Weds Sheru, directed by Sai Kabir, is anything from a family film. There is no romance, no deft humour, and only melodrama that torments you for almost two hours in this so-called romantic drama with dark humour. The movie hardly lasts twenty minutes before you start to lose patience with it. I find it painful to see an actor of Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s ability in such a crude and pointless movie. He’s an awkward individual who is expected to act comedic in his role as Sheru. Despite his sincerity and diligence, you feel sorry for him when you see him in these roles as an audience member.
And let’s not even begin to discuss Avneet Kaur. Nothing about her is effective. Neither her startling on-screen presence nor her delivery of the dialogue, which seems more like lines being rehearsed. Sometimes it’s hard to tolerate her overacting. She is honest and authentic, yet her performance never quite convinces you. On-screen, the two of them make an extraordinarily strange and awkward couple. We see Tiku dressed as a cabaret dancer in a crimson flashy outfit in the scene where Sheru and Tiku go out to dinner for the first time. They eat, joke around, go for a walk on the beach, and end up kissing. The entire moment, which could have been the pinnacle of their relationship, lacks any beauty, chemistry, or sparks at all.
Plot:
The plot of Tiku Weds Sheru lacks any sense of freshness and seems to be assembled from bits of several scripts. Shiraz Khan Afghani, also known as Sheru (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), is a Mumbai-based junior artist and film financier who marries Tasleem, also known as Tiku (Avneet Kaur), a Bhopal girl who aspires to be a successful actor. She accepts to wed Sheru because it is the only way she can travel to Mumbai and be with her boyfriend Binni (Rahoul), but she is least expecting the twist that will completely upend her life. On the other hand, the events that follow after Sheru realises that he was duped into falling into a trap and how he deals with it are entirely different.
Despite appearing to be eccentric, loud, and melodramatic, both of these characters are actually quite straightforward individuals whose travels are diverted by the confusing situations in which they eventually find themselves. Tiku Weds Sheru is a satire on the numerous aspiring artists that come to this city in an effort to get notoriety but end up choosing a path that leads to self-realization. However, Tiku Weds Sheru is utterly embarrassing. Even when a character laughs aloud or sobs bitterly, you feel nothing.
Everything seems so flimsy and never really touches home or resonates with you. Even the most heated dialogue or serious scenes can’t keep you interested. In certain scenes, we observe Tiku’s brother striking her with a belt while her parents and sister helplessly watch from outside. This scene ought to have made me so angry, but it has the least noticeable effect.
Screenplay:
In a different moment, when she is leaving her home after getting married, her uncle calls her derogatory names, but instead of making you stop and consider this attitude in such families, it irritates you because of how it was filmed. The narrative that Sai Kabir and Amit Tiwari co-wrote veers off-topic and don’t really focus on any one idea for too long. The movie briefly mentions topics like misogyny, patriarchy, dowries, domestic violence, and sexual assault, but it utterly fails to dive into any of these. Even mensuration is mentioned as “periods” or “down,” but it is never intended to have a specific connotation.
The dialogue in the movie is even worse than the visuals, and regrettably, Nawaz gets to mouth the majority of them. ‘Main jo bhi karta hoon shiddat ke sath karta hoon and it’s a fact,’ Nawaz says to a man on the set who tells him not to overact. Looking at a photograph of a female, Nawaz said in a fantasised manner, “Kitni delicious ho tum, kitna jolly hoon main, yeh galat hai ki hum dono marr jayenge.” You are annoying me like a fly, not a butterfly, like a house fly, Nawaz said to his cat Elizabeth. Nawaz muttered to himself, “Sheru hai tu, sher ki tarah dahaad,” in anguish.
Final Verdict:
In addition to being involved in the drug trade to make money, Sheru also works as a pimp in his spare time and trades prostitutes to the wealthy. In his first scene in this character, he drags three women to Gulati Sahab, who is sipping his drink while relaxedly perched on a chair with his paunch resting on his thighs. The moment doesn’t even deserve to be in the movie, and if the filmmakers had really wanted to, they could have improved the writing and direction. Sheru once says he wants to focus on his job and leave this “dalaali,” but he has become too deeply involved in it to be able to pull himself out.
What the movie shows is how Tiku and Sheru, despite having two very distinct yet somewhat similar personalities, stick by one another no matter what, and how their vastly dissimilar tales end up in common. Watch it if you really have nothing better to do this weekend or if you enjoy watching offensive material so that you can enjoy more enjoyable things. Prime Video is currently streaming Tiku Weds Sheru.
Bollywood Hush would rate the film Tiku Weds Sheru 2.5 stars out of 5. Click here to read The Flash review.
