Ekkees Tareekh Shubh Muhurat Review: Wedding Drama And Satire On Arranged Marriage System Which Fails To Deliver.

Ekkees Tareekh Shubh Muhurat's story is simple. Girdhari Lal Sharma (Sanjai Mishra) is a poor katha vachak in the temple town of Varanasi. In a town filled with saints, mahants, and pandits, that is as rare as a struggler in Aram Nagar II. His main problems in life are getting his teacher daughter (Kajal Jain) married to the Gopal (Mahesh Sharma). He does not have the money for the lavish wedding. The solution his friend Bulaki (Brijendra Kala) provides is to get his IAS-pass son, Banwari (Chandrachoor Singh), married with a dowry demand. This money is then used for his daughter's wedding,  which intigates motion a series of absurd events that add humour, satire, and a touch of humanism to this tale.

Ekkees Tareekh Shubh Muhurat has some fantastic ideas, but uninspired and jaded execution make it a tedious watch. The film has humour, but it does not always come through. Sanjai Mishra is earnest and willing to play the distraught father trying to find his way through the mess. However, the actor seems to be stuck in a stereotype of the philosophical, earnest man caught in a twisted world. Shoddy screenplay is one of the major flaws of the film. This takes away from the realism and social essence that it seeks to convey.

Ekkees Tareekh… suffers gravely from lackluster writing and shoddy storytelling. The worst part of the film is the editing, which makes the scenes look like they were stitched together in a tearing hurry. There is little to praise or talk about the performances in the film. Even Mishra looks to be sleepwalking through the role at some points. In all, the film certainly seems to have missed the date in terms of the right wedding between story idea, screenplay and film.