Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

binducherungath Shaadi Ke Side Effects starts with the apparent one-night stand between a frustrated husband (due to wife's endlessly watching TV serials) and a frustrated wife (due to a workaholic husband). The Director Saket Chaudhary has made this as a sequel to his first movie – Pyar Ke Side Effects (starring Rahul Bose and Mallika Sherawat).Sid (Siddharth), essayed by Farhan Akhtar and Trisha, played by Vidya Balan try to keep the passion and fire alive in their relationship through quirky games. The director tries to build up the plot slowly but definitely the dialogues have kept a few shots very realistic. Probably it is the story of almost every household (Ekta is trying to narrate घर घर की कहानी) that a couple very much in love with each other takes their relationship to the next level to marriage and later to parenthood. Movie certainly gives an insight into the fact that the initial love, care, concern, passion vanishes, rather the very intention of enjoying the togetherness through marital bliss fails. Sid is in constant fight with the self and wants to enjoy his singleton days and enjoy parties, friends, watching sports etc. and on the other hand Trisha is in constant nagging mode due to complexities of post- delivery anxiety syndromes (weight gain, leaving career for motherhood). All Trisha can think off is in regard to the baby and all Sid can think off how "it used to be earlier". The communication between them hits a low pitch and frequency. Ranvir (Ram Kapoor), brother-in-law of Sid advises him to spice up his marital life with occasional white lies, and having some "Me-Time" and re-living the joys of a carefree single life. The movie depicts that one is not able to appreciate what is in the hands and looks out to escape from daily mundane and monotonous life.Crucial piece of advice by Sid : if the male partner commits mistake, please apologize, and in case the female partner commits mistake, still the male partner has to apologize and life would go on Mothers feel that they are instinctively the best mothers in the world whereas the fathers have to take special efforts to be the 'best dad in the world'.I kept wondering, aren't certain trivial reasons cause marital drudgery, relationship failures, infidelity issues and extramarital affairs ??? I felt that every couple must watch the movie not because the movie is great but because it would definitely give insight into how we perceive our marital relationship, how we look at our partner, how we treat our partner, how we handle the commitment of togetherness, how we cope up with the transition from being a single to a couple, to being parents, how we handle our love, how we take the relationship / situations / partners for granted, how one tries to generate a feeling of jealousy / insecurity in the other, how we point our fingers at our partners but ultimately end up doing the same 'mistake' Some shots take a dig at all these things in a humoursitic manner.Farhan is natural, spontaneous with his straight faced wits. Vidya is believable. This movie is being told from the perspective of Sid, though Vidya's perception is also shown in certain shots.Of course the movie has its own flaws. The plot could have been handled far more brilliantly. It is bizarre to see a struggling musician being able to manage a pretty decent lifestyle in spite of the transition of status from double-income to single-income. A few characters are introduced just to stretch the story. Other cast viz. Vir Das (room partner to Sid), Gautami Kapoor (Trisha's sister-in-law), Rati Agnihotri (Trisha's widowed mother), Purab Kohli (Shekhar – a neighbor), Ila Arun (Maid) are completely wasted in the movie. One good aspect of the movie is that it is without any melodrama.Music (Music Direction – Pritam Chakraborty; Lyrics – Amitabh Bhattacharya, Guest Lyricist – Mikey Mclleary) is not very promising.Cinematography is OK, nothing special to point out.Costumes of Farhan suits to the tone of the movie but Vidya should have been given a few good costumes.

harsha442 A family person may need some space for self even after marriage, but how far can (s)he really go looking for it makes the subject.The movie starts with a confident young married guy who seems to know how to keep his married life happy, But he panics soon as he becomes a father and tries to adjust himself to his new 'family'.The movie does exaggerate some aspects for the sake of humor.For an example, the ordeals of fathers in a supposed kids play. And the side effects that the title mentions were mostly one sided. But the director did try to make amends in this aspect with a hint at the end of the movie.All the characters were carefully drafted and meticulously used.

Ravi K Singh The movie is good at points and that the summary of this entire movie. If you need to look at, you'd like the first half more than second half. After interval the movie just seems to drag too much without much of a logic and coherence. End is slightly predictable but it is ideal for the movie. Bacche Hone Ke Side Effects would have been right title for the movie. Because it all starts with a baby in family. The typical husband-wife things are not in enough quantity and its so very particular to the type of couple they are. Frankly, the movie wasn't up to the mark and falls below the expectation. I simply couldn't connect the husband-wife and kid in the family - they all looked disjointed and wasn't felt like a family. Shaadi Ke side effects had to be generic in nature just because the message it has - but it went too specific to a particular type of couple and then didn't justify the title it had. Best of the acting came from Ram Kapoor - his dialogs delivery and conviction on them was simply amazing and live wire of the movie. Vidya and Farhan's pair doesn't look sparkling and it disappoints slightly. Individually, they have acted very well. Couple of songs are good and the don't bore you much. Script is disappointing and so is the editing. Struggling music director Farhan in the film seems to be living very comfortable life with staying in hotels - buying bikes as he wishes etc.The movie is full of promotions - Cars, bikes, cloths, TVs, phones, hospitals - everything has been branded nicely to get sponsor money. Looked sad to see all that. Its just tad too much.Overall, I wont be too excited to watch this film. Its strictly a decent watch but not up to the mark.

Tejas Nair That is what the writers asked themselves before the film went on floor. I mean, they should be awarded for fabricating such a make- believe story of which not one sequence looks credible. Saket Chaudhary seemed eager to make a sequel after his Pyaar Ke Side/Effects being an unexpected, sleeper hit as the two lead characters were quirky, original and the plot actually made sense.Vidya Balan & Farhan Akhtar are good idiosyncratically, but they are not wacky, yet ordinary people. As a result, an ordinary story breaks out which everyone experiences in their lives. In other words, the film does not show anything new that we already already don't know, the kinda- humorous jokes notwithstanding. Starting off with the couple's fancy idea of spicing their marriage up, they immediately jump into parenthood. Then, they show how an infant can break havoc in the love life. So, I feel personally, that this film should be renamed "Parenthood Ke Side-Effects!" Because marriage only stays on-screen for a minute or two. In fact, the first sequence is so ironic to the whole idea. That sequence seemed like there ARE no side/effects.Scenes that contain humor are totally co-incidental or situational and they turned me off rather than tickling my bone. It was like fillers that we see in some cultural events which are both boring and time- consuming. Next, predictability kicks in and we are shown how selfish people can become, that is, after getting stricken with these so-called side/effects. Unwanted character (Purab) comes and goes after making a silly point (Makers should understand, we won;t believe when you show someone jumping from a 19th floor's balcony to 18th floor). Ram Kapoor's character is the only one who is believable, but then again, it was cliché. Towards the end, the characters self-realize how they are not loving themselves and letting the kid come in between. The climax is supposed to be emotional, but since the genre is comedy, it ends with the most disastrous scene in cinema history. A very poor closure.In other words, this film lacks elements that can carry a story further. Basically, it coheres itself with parts that are exaggerated. This is not at all how married couple behave when they invite a baby to their lives. It gives a wrong idea to newly married people and is a poorly made solution of utter hyperbole. To prove what? A point, maybe? Nope. To mock the whole institution.Vir Das is one good player in here and although his participation was unnecessary, the writers make us believe that he was important because it is he who maneuvers the situation for Farhan's character. Songs are blown-off party smashers and there is nothing much to consider, as far as celluloid is concerned. It was even worse that the seriousness is lost in an attempt to create humor.BOTTOM LINE: Akhtar & Balan will save the day for people (like me) who are obsessed with the theme. But I assure you, this is a very silly film. Not sticking to facts and actuality, it is a piece of exaggeration coupled with sheer imagination.Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES