‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ movie review: Ayushmann and Vaani’s progressive romance crackles with chemistry
The Hindu
Abhishek Kapoor’s unconventional love story is set in the hotbed of masculinity, and essentially a case study of a man and a woman who are struggling inside the bodies that nature has allotted them
Our mythology is dotted with gender-fluid tales, and our laws have begun to respect sexual diversity, but our mainstream Hindi cinema continues to narrate love stories that are as ramrod-straight as Manu Munjal, the protagonist of Abhishek Kapoor’s latest leap of faith. An unconventional love story set in the hotbed of masculinity, it is essentially a case study of a man and a woman who are struggling inside the bodies that nature has allotted them.
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Manu (Ayushmann Khurrana), a bodybuilder and fitness trainer, seeks to get over his diffident past, when he was bullied after his mother's demise, to build the best body in town, but his softcore refuses to crystallise.