Director Michael Winterbottom is one of the busiest directors about. He has also made several films based in the Indian subcontinent such as A Mighty Heart.
The film opens like a brooding thriller. Jay (Dev Patel) is a man on a mission going to Pakistan to attend a wedding. However this wedding guest plans to abduct the bride, Samira (Radhika Apte) who is going through an arranged marriage.
Jay has been hired by Samira's boyfriend Deepesh and the plan is for them to reunited in India. The plan goes wrong and Deepesh turns out to be a bit of a creep. Jay and Samira need to keep their wits about.
Dev looks bulked up and mean. However it is very difficult to take the story seriously. His character cannot speak Urdu for a start so he is navigating around Pakistan and asking people if they speak English. He will have the same problem in India with his inability to speak Hindi (which is similar to Urdu) so it is a good job that Samira can speak the lingo.
The boyfriend Deepesh is a bit of an untrustworthy idiot but hints that Samira might just be a femme fatale. The Wedding Guest shifts to being a noirish type thriller but it is too subdued and flat. The main leads do not sizzle and the escape plan is too convoluted. India is a big country and Jay and Samira seem to want to cover every inch of it.
The film opens like a brooding thriller. Jay (Dev Patel) is a man on a mission going to Pakistan to attend a wedding. However this wedding guest plans to abduct the bride, Samira (Radhika Apte) who is going through an arranged marriage.
Jay has been hired by Samira's boyfriend Deepesh and the plan is for them to reunited in India. The plan goes wrong and Deepesh turns out to be a bit of a creep. Jay and Samira need to keep their wits about.
Dev looks bulked up and mean. However it is very difficult to take the story seriously. His character cannot speak Urdu for a start so he is navigating around Pakistan and asking people if they speak English. He will have the same problem in India with his inability to speak Hindi (which is similar to Urdu) so it is a good job that Samira can speak the lingo.
The boyfriend Deepesh is a bit of an untrustworthy idiot but hints that Samira might just be a femme fatale. The Wedding Guest shifts to being a noirish type thriller but it is too subdued and flat. The main leads do not sizzle and the escape plan is too convoluted. India is a big country and Jay and Samira seem to want to cover every inch of it.