Drawn from broad stereotypes, they ride on our expectations. These are not people as much as (screenwriting) conceptions. He’s attracted to her like a true Bollywood hero: He gets awkward in her presence, eyes her from a distance, and plans to ask her out. She finds a job as a Zumba instructor in his gym (“Jatts Flex IT”). Meet Maanvi (Vaani Kapoor), who is everything Manu is not: attractive, suave, restrained. And what are romances if not the attraction of the opposites? So, there you have it.
Now since this is a romantic comedy (of sorts), the film has a heroine. He’s also a loser: His only girlfriend left him for a man settled in “ Kanneda ”.
Manu, as expected, is unrefined: He calls Zumba “Joomba”. Drinking protein shake, he shuts them out of the room. His two sisters, in a very aunt-like fashion, pester him for marriage. You get all of that in the movie’s hero: Manu (Ayushmann Khurrana), a gym instructor, training for the ‘Gabru of All Time (GOAT)’ competition. Chandigarh, in popular imagination, means a few things: dudebros – low on brain, high on brawn – fixated on masculinity. With a title like Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui, director Abhishek Kapoor expects you to enter the theatre with a list of checkboxes, and he ticks them one by one. Some films create expectations some conform to them.
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