Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor’s cross cultural love story 2 States will release all over the India today, and the critics have already expressed their satisfaction.
2 States is a happy film (with measured anguish). Krish Malhotra (Arjun) and Ananya Swaminathan(Alia) meet on the IIM Ahmedabad campus. Sparks fly between economic coaching and food poaching. Their tender love, compulsive copulation and kissing chemistry make this couple reason that they could spend a lifetime together. But in India, where tradition and parents are nurtured, couples have to literally marry each other’s families.
Incidentally, for those in an inter-caste marriage, this movie could resonate like your own tale. The playful digs at each other’s cultures, the self-deprecating remarks about one’s family and community are all laugh-out-loud moments. Amrita-Ronit, Revathi-Shiv Subramaniam infuse life into their roles of the Punjabi and Tamil parents.
Critic Chetan Bhagat tweeted: “Saw 2 States. 2 overwhelmed. Fantastic. Charms you, makes you smile, touches u deep.”
Taran Adarsh tweeted: “#2States movie review: One of the finest movies to come out of the Hindi film industry of late!”
Times of India wrote: “Romance in cross-cultural or even cross-border situations isn’t new to Bollywood. What makes 2 States work is the simple narrative told humorously.”
