When Harry met Sejal

So how do you manage to create a love story with a heavy duty self professed womaniser boy, and a wet behind ears about sex, and engaged and about to be married girl?

Answer is When Harry met Sally, sorry  gijjuben Sejal.

Bollywood had moved forward somewhat, in the sense, that if Mere jeevan sathi of the ever popular 'o mere dil ke chain' showed the hero as a womaniser but also secretly had to do  loads of charity by the side, in order to come across as eligible in order  to win the heroine's heart,  our current Harry hero no  longer requires such cheap props.

He is clear about his sex addict status, (though may not be too happy about it and that too, only because the image hurts his career prospects badly).

It's not clear why Sejal opted to tour the whole of Europe with the self proclaimed 'pervert', except for some vague last liners from Sharukh 'you were not searching for your ring, you were searching for me' mush crap,

And it is also not clear why the movie tries to sell monogamy, when the hero  so clearly  is not!

Imtihaz Ali, as usual, creates interesting characterisations, but the stories end up in typical lame tame Bollywood territory.

It does however raise  the still interesting (has been first raised in DDLJ) question as to why would anybody in his right mind opt for an 'untried untested sexual arena' marriage, when everybody knows it is an important component of any long term relationship.

Anushka plays  the girl who plays the curious girl who wants to know the exact price of womanhood,  and it must be admitted, that  after all these years still manages to retain most of her freshness

while

SRK seems to be heavily stuck in middle age angst, because he can no longer play the head in clouds optmistic about love  teenager, and has to undertake  the heavy task of a polyamoriser selling monogamy, which he has not been able to do too well.

The ending between the loverboy and sweet gal seems contrived.

Finally the initial song tells it all..

I am stuck in a forever  journey,

which is how the movie should have  ended in my humble opinion.