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The makeover, which sees the staid, bespectacled officer-worker donning tight painted jeans, glittery shirts, cowboy boots, and colored sunglasses, causes a revolution in Suri’s demeanor. So one night his ambiguously gay hairdresser friend Bobby (Vinay Pathak) disguises him so that he can watch Taani at dance class without her feeling constrained.

Instead, he’s painfully aware of his shyness and lack of fashion sense, and decides that he needs a makeover to help him look more like a Bollywood hero. A wiser man might have realized that he needed to give the poor woman a couple of months to recover from the shock, but Suri isn’t wise. Suri, for his part, is secretly thrilled to be asked to look after Taani, with whom he has fallen in love at first sight, but he’s heartbroken when she tells him she won’t be able to love him, having, she believes, lost her ability to love along with her loved ones. Sure, it’s an arranged marriage, but it wasn’t planned – Taani was supposed to marry a man she had chosen herself, but when he dies on the way to their wedding, prompting her father to go into cardiac arrest, she has little choice but to accede to her father’s dying wish and marry his trustworthy but geeky former student, Suri. Suri (Shah Rukh Khan) and Taani (Anushka Sharma) have just gotten married, approximately 24 hours after they first met. Think of it as a really short miniseries. But you don’t have to watch it all at once – there is an intermission. Add to this high production values, deft direction and a well-written script by Aditya Chopra, and the star-power of Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood’s biggest hero, and what’s not to love for 2 hrs and 45 mins.? Ok, it’s an investment. It has a sing-able soundtrack by Salim and Sulaiman Merchant and lots of dances that actually have a reason to be in the movie (there’s a dance competition in the offing). Sure, it’s not as glamorous as some films – the protagonists are middle-class newlyweds in Amritsar, in the Punjab – but it combines all the classic tropes of Hindi romance – catchy songs, flashy dances, cameos from a bevy of Bollywood beauties, passion, religion, an impossible romance that somehow works out in the end, and, of course, the life-changing power of makeovers. If you’re ever going to watch a contemporary Bollywood romance, this is the one to see.