Movie review: 'Sui Dhaaga' is well tailored for our aspirational times

At just over two hours, the movie is an entertainer designed to make one root for the underdog

In one of the scenes during the first half of Sui Dhaaga, Mauji (Varun Dhawan), a small-town youth, gets a frantic call from his wife Mamta (Anushka Sharma) who is tending to his ailing mother in hospital. He is summoned just as he is talking to his father and brother and fretting about expenses. He rushes back to find a horde of patients demanding for themselves a similarly comfy embroidered nightie as the one he designed for his mother. Ease of doing business couldn’t get any easier.

The near-absurd ease with which the couple from a low-income family realises its