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#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #filmmoviedocumentaryreviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #DoubleXL #TSeries Cast: #SonakshiSinha #HumaQureshi #ZaheerIqbal #MahatRaghavendra #JimmyShergill #ShobhaKhote #KanwaljeetSingh #DollySingh Director: #SatramRamani Runtime: 130 mins Rating: * * ½ #CommuniquePR Producers: #BhushanKumar #KrishnaKumar #VipulDShah #AshwinVarde #SaqibSaleem #HumaQureshi #MudassarAziz Co-producer: #ShivChanana

Celebrating Corpulence in hollow fashion, this dramedy has good performances and a fairly ok feel-good factor to interest the audience. The script, detailing the facile journey of two plus-sized, 30-something women - Rajshree Trivedi from Meerut and Saira Khanna from New Delhi, is rather contrived with a pan-India marketing angle to it. So the pair-up of the wannabe sportscaster with a fledging south-Indian cameraman appears forced and so does the pairing of the Kashmiri line producer settled in London with that of a north Indian wannabe fashion designer. Instead of them navigating society's beauty standards we see them battling their own confused perceptions of it. Body image, body shaming, and repercussions are toyed with. There’s nothing concrete to celebrate. We get more muddling and vacuous sermons on that ‘plus size’ aspect and very little clarity. There’s so much bling and blah in the fashion choices that it hurts your eyes. The costume lacks aesthetic value and the color choices are so garish that even a fledging fashion designer would hide their head in shame. The script doesn’t go beyond the surface – just flits around trying to make good when there’s nothing substantial (other than the weighty heroines), to make it worthwhile. The two heroines appear to be at ease with each other and their camaraderie makes it all bearable. The mash-up of multi-lingual songs and music though makes the experience fairly ameliorating.