What happens in Vegas, seldom happens in India

'What happens in Vegas' is a romantic flick that made me laugh and cry at the same time. A completely hilarious movie with a shade of romance made me hooked to it. The movie stars Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher as the lead actors and is directed by Tom Vaughan. The story is about two people, Cameron (Joy) and Ashton (Jack) who discovers that they have got married after having spent a night in a pub at Las Vegas. But the $3 million jackpot the next day at a casino is what both of them eye on. Sharing money equally amongst them is simply not acceptable and staying together is not what they opt for. Invariably, the court also orders them to stay together and preserve their married life as the court is unaware of the reason behind their marriage and their intention of divorce.

There are certain scenes in the movie which made me go crazy looking at them. To start with, Joy's boyfriend not only dumps her but also humiliates her in front of her friends. Instead of sitting and crying over spilt milk, she takes this as a challenge and rebels against him. She is determined to find someone better. I am sure, this seldom happens in India and even if it does, it would get a lot of outrage and uproar from the Indian society. Our society still considers girls entering pubs and discos as immoral and of lose character. The recent Mangalore pub attack is an example of its kind.

Coming back to the movie, the shocks and surprises it showed made me wait anxiously to the next scene. People around me laughed at this romantic farce and I was engrossed in seeing the strain on the faces of Joy and Jack. I liked the desperateness and the diligent effort made by both of them to get rid of each other. It may sound funny but that’s how it is screened. Right from falsely hurting himself to irritating her in all possible ways, Jack tries it all but in vain. In fact, even the obnoxious way in which he eats popcorn made me hate popcorn for a second.

This movie may not make sense to most of us. The reason behind it, being an awkward love story. But perceptions do differ. It can also be viewed as a predictable comedy that insists on spending time in an unhappy marriage in order to sow love. As far as I am concerned, it was a good break for me from the routine love dramas that either drift your imaginations into a dream land or make you sob while leaving the theaters.

I loved the last scene in which Jack proposes Joy 'to marry again'. Strange but definitely not superficial. Joy realises what she has lost and Jack makes an earnest attempt to win her love back. Now its not about the money... it’s about the honey... This scene happens on the beach, which according to me is the perfect place to confess one's love. The scenic beauty and the act of Jack going on his knees leaves a very dreamy picture and is one of my best scenes in the movie.