Shaadi Ke Side Effects movie review: Is enjoyable despite numerous faults

Shaadi Ke Side Effects despite numerous faults is enjoyable with Akhtar and Balan taking the lead.Ratings- ***Cast-Farhan Akhtar, Vidya BalanDirector- Saket ChaudharyMusic-PritamWe have witnessed the effects of love in the prequel to this nuptial drama, but now it's the time to know some of the ground realities before you go ahead and enter into wedlock.You will lose your freedom, will be taken for granted, will be less pampered, compelled to lower down your undue expenses and learn to say ‘yes' and ‘sorry' for every other thing you don't want to. Read the terms! Now if you are settled and have made-up your wits with these conditions, then you are one of the toughest people on earth.If you don't believe then watch out for one such couple whose life goes berserk prominently the male protagonist who is like a dummy with one single expression of frustration on his face. What you'll like here is that the screenplay doesn't emphasize over the adjustments just after the marriage but after a new-born enters their world. And Sid (Farhan Akhtar) and Trisha (Vidya Balan) make it look worthy. This couple is trying every that thing, which could spice up their happily married life. The problem erupts when they have a baby and affection starts fading between them. The over-pampering mother Trisha is now taunting her good for nothing and struggler musician hubby for having no idea about how to handle his baby. Frustrated after failing in all his attempts to bring back his old wife, he takes little unscrupulous advice from his sister-in-law's husband Ranvir (Ram Kapoor). How he manages his life with those counseling sessions is what Saket Chaudhary tells us with this drama which for some would be termed as ‘baby ke side effects'. The director delicately takes the lives of such couple with loads of humour. It doesn't matter you are married or not, watching this onscreen couple will turn you heads up-down with a feeling such as ‘yes it happens'.Farhan's replies to the boomerangs thrown on him are amusing.But what you won't admire is the predictable screenplay, which doesn't offer you any different conclusion. There are moments where you think that how could a father be so careless that he leaves his daughter with a horse rider, just for a soccer match. To the worse he forgets her and comes back home alone.There are other such moments which are far from the comfort and from reality of a couple. The twists and turns in the second half are predictable and seemed to be delved unnecessarily. But you least bother about them until the doses of humour are being served in plenty. The ordinary situations mostly inside home are in mass fall flat. The supporting actors such as Vir Das, Arun, Purab Kohli though, don't have anything special to do but add good fun.All the more, it's the two lead stars, who shine throughout the two and a half hour runtime. Vidya Balan seems loving the roles of dominant housewives. Initailly, she takes time to come out of her ‘Ghanchakkar' role but later shows a more mature act. Lastly, it's Farhan Akhtar who steals the show from all. Though, after Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, he has set a different level altogether for himself. But as his character requires, he gives an A-rate performance.Vir Das and Ram Kapoor are equally good.More was expected from Pritam but one would love tracks like Harry's Not a Brahmachari and Rabba main shaadi karke. Background score is great. I'll go with three stars for Shaadi Ke Side Effects which despite numerous faults is enjoyable with Akhtar and Balan taking the lead.