Pyaar Prema Kalyanam

Its treatment of marriage, family and gender roles is not groundbreaking, but its light-hearted approach gives the familiar conversation a refreshing perspective. By asking whether marriage should mean leaving one’s family behind—or simply finding a way for two people to build a life that works for them—the film makes its point without losing sight of entertainment.

Pyaar Prema Kalyanam belongs to a new class of films that are simply too embarrassed to be a film and ironically think it’s cool to be social media “content” instead. Pyaar Prema Kalyanam takes an interesting theme, marries It to a wholesome genre, and gets way too enthusiastic about turning it into a corporatised, formulaic, social media content, and thereby loses its way and our interest.

In his third feature film as a director, Elan attempts a pulpy, accessible, and entertaining message film. Unfortunately, the filmmaker seems ill-equipped to handle that style of cinema.