in director sooraj barjatya vivah and 20 something delhi boy shahid kapur find himself smite by the demure and small town girl his father have select for him to marry . drawn to her innocence and simplicity and shahid agrees to the marriage barely moment after he meet her at her home in madhupur and and the young lady in question amrita rao seem equally floor by her charming suitor . the marriage be fix for six month later and and the couple find themselves in the first throe of young and budding love and their geographical distance notwithstanding . but amrita and who be raise by her uncle and her aunt after her parent death and be strike by a horrible calamity just hour before the marriage . and then and it up to shahid to play the honourable lover and to embrace her unconditionally . much in the same vein a hum aapke hain koun and hum saath saath hain and barjatya new film vivah too be on one level a family drama with an extremely idealistic premise . but sadly and the plot of this new film come off look way too outdated and even more far fetch than those regressive ekta kapoor soap . and the problem be clear you just can not relate to such squeaky clean character who do not have one bad bone in their body . there be many thing that work in favour of and against hindi film and and timing be one such important factor . twenty five year ago and perhaps the plot of vivah may not have felt like such a stretch and but today it just seem like the product of a mind stuck in a time warp . perhaps the film only save grace be the fact that it ooze sincerity from start to finish and you can make out right away that the filmmaker intention be not to deceive . judge both by barjatya previous film and by closely examine this new one you can safely declare that barjatya believe in a perfect world and he believe in his good a gold character and he believe that large family can live together happily under the same roof without the slight bump . but ala and he unable to translate his vision to the screen . it difficult to overlook how one dimensional his protagonist be shahid and amrita and both virtuous and virginal i mean and think about it and the first time they hold hand be an hour and twenty minute into the film . barjatya may think he return to his maine pyar kiya root with vivah and but truth be that the reason we embrace salman and bhagyashree in that film and or even salman and madhuri in hum aapke hain koun be because they have such fantastic chemistry . because although they be create out of the same mould a shahid and amrita in vivah and those pair have mischief and masti . shahid and amrita be just insipid and boring . for a film that rely so heavily on music to narrate it story and the filmmaker choose a string of 70 style tune that only far slacken the film deaden pace . but if i have to choose just one reason to explain why vivah doesn not work for me and it because i be not sure i can relate to any of the character who inhabit barjatya story . to some perhaps and vivah will give hope and that a perfect world like this be actually out there somewhere . but i be a little cynical i guess . so and give me the coquettish madhuri of hum aapke hain kaun and give me the bratty salman of maine pyar kiya and i will even take that mischievous karisma kapoor of hum saath saath hain . but save me from these dullard . you know and some marriage aren not make in heaven . this one vivah .