Sanjay Kapoor plays the boy's father called Fundwani who brandishes a golden pistol and wears a pendant in the shape of letter S which stands for Sindhi and not Samdhi he clarifies to Pankaj Kapoor.
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Sure enough our hero JJ lands up swimming in the same lake.The entire movie is about a big fat wedding where Pankaj Kappor has plans to marry his insomniac daughter in a rich family. His girlfriend, the insomniac is a pretty little thing who has equally quirky behavior who goes for midnight swims in the lake since she cannot sleep. Fixit and a charmer who smiles shyly as the background song tells us that he is a Hotty hotty. Then there a young man called Jagjinder Joginder ( named after his mother -father) who is a wedding planner, choreographer, Mr. She harasses everyone including her brother and her assistant and does not bat an eyelid as she drives them up the wall with her tantrums. There is a Hitler like grandmother on a wheelchair who orders people about. Everyone whispers that it must be love.This probably is the only sensible scene in this crazy concoction of assorted characters each quirkier than the other. Ditto for Shahid who has also slept for the first time. This because she has slept for the first time. In Bollywood, even a B grade film also would have censor problems but in the hands of director Vikas Bahl ( Queen) their sleeping together, she on the sofa and he sitting on the floor with their hands clasped presents such a cute picture that it brings tears to the father of the girl.( Pankaj Kapoor). In Hollywood the film might have warranted an A certificate. There is a boy who is an insomniac( Shahid Kapoor ) and he falls for a girl ( Alia Bhatt )who is also an insomniac. There's a great cast here, but their talents are wasted with their one dimensional characters. Shandaar is an endless string of facepalm worthy moments connected together with a few songs thrown in the mix. Some movie can pull off not having a plot, but they usually have good dialogues or set pieces to cover for it. Shaandaar really is a shaandaar insult to the viewer's intelligence. Also the two fall in love, but i'm sure you knew that already. Surprise surprise, JJ happens to be one too, and that leads to the two of them doing fun, wondrous activities together in an idyllic locale (Even disney's fairy tales are grittier). Bipin also has an adopted daughter Alia who's an insomniac. Jaginder Joginder, aka JJ (this should have been the first clue about the movie's impending barrage of stupidity) is a wedding planner who's been hired to plan the wedding (aka family deal) of Isha, daughter of an affluent businessman Bipin, who's being married into an affluent Sindhi family called the Fundwanis (hardy har har). The whole movie is a bunch of amusing acronyms with songs and a few romance scenes thrown in. There's absolutely no plot and minimal character development.
It's brainlessness is especially perplexing considering what the director Vikas Behl is capable of (Queen). Its an utterly senseless movie that assumes the audience is full of idiots.