Veere Di Wedding

Every grandmother in India saw the same movie, with the same typo.

June 2018. Identical tweets landed on Swara Bhasker's timeline. A man had taken his grandmother to Veere Di Wedding. They were embarrassed by the masturbation scene. Grandma said she was Hindustan and she was ashamed. The spelling of masturbation stayed wrong across handles. Bhasker posted that a certain IT cell had sponsored the tickets, or at least the tweets, and asked paid trolls to run a spell check. latestnetflix.com's take is that The Guardian later noted the copy-paste language and the fact that Bhasker is one of the few Hindi-film actors who talks in public about intolerance and religious nationalism.The film still opened.,,

The board blurred the toy, not the act.

India's censors let Sakshi's husband walk in on her. They ordered the vibrator itself blurred. Bhasker told the Guardian it was the first time Hindi cinema had owned up to women pleasuring themselves, and that she had expected some backlash. She told Scroll she asked director Shashanka Ghosh to keep the scene comic. "Wow, woah woah, but not disgusting." Three takes. She had been offered Meera, the married-abroad friend, and asked for Sakshi instead because she did not want to carry another baby around set after Tanu Weds Manu Returns. Rhea Kapoor produced with Ekta Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, and Nikhil Dwivedi. Farah Khan staged "Tareefan" as a gender swap, the women as heroes and the men as decorative pieces. Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors banned the film for language and sexuality. Kuwait did not screen it.,,,

The fiance was supposed to be Pakistani.

Danish Taimoor has said he and Javed Sheikh were locked, dates in, first scene planned for Thailand. Then Kareena Kapoor Khan announced she was pregnant with Taimur, the shoot slipped, and India-Pakistan tensions closed the door. Sumeet Vyas stepped in as Rishabh. At the trailer launch Kareena said she had told Rhea to recast her. Rhea waited. Principal photography started in September 2017 after that delay. Delhi, Mumbai, Phuket.,,,

A title fight, a box-office shrug at the reviews.

Anil and Rhea Kapoor tried to stop Veerey Ki Wedding, the Pulkit Samrat film with the almost-identical name. A high court let Jimmy Shergill's movie keep the title. Critics were mostly cold. The Times of India gave it 1.5. Shubhra Gupta at the Indian Express gave it 3 and called it a fun ride that squeezed past its tropes. Audiences did not wait for the notices. Box Office India logged the highest opening day for a Hindi film with female leads. Bollywood Hungama later put worldwide collections around Rs 139 crore on a budget TMDB lists at $6.8 million. Filmfare nominated Bhasker and Shikha Talsania for supporting actress. Netflix added it years later. The identical grandmother tweets did not recast the weekend.,,