Laapataa Ladies review – Shakespearean carry-on in Indian arranged-marriage comedy | Film
With a film set in rural India in 2001, Mumbai Diaries’ Kiran Rao directs a tale of two newlywed couples taking a long journey by train to set up their new homes in different villages. Changing trains by night in a rush, one groom grabs the hand of the wrong woman and hustles her off the train with him. The mistake isn’t discovered until they reach his village. Anyone who sits down to this gentle comedy-drama on the basis that its wife-swapping premise sounds like a saucy throwback to the Confessions of a Window…