Instead of wrapping up scenes quickly, he lets them go on and on. Abhishek Varman's screenplay doesn’t do much to salvage the situation either. Except for Roop-Zafar’s track, all other parts of the story are not well fleshed out and are full of loopholes. Shibani Bathija's story is poor and silly and rests on a wafer thin plot. What happens next forms the rest of the film. After all, she knows that Zafar has ulterior motives behind romancing Roop and it get can lead to disastrous consequences. Bahaar senses that Roop is getting attracted to Zafar and she gets horrified.

He’s also against Dev’s newspaper Daily Times that promotes the idea of one nation theory, rejects the notion of Partition and recommends industrialization even at the cost of job loss of blacksmiths. Zafar is a blacksmith and works for Abdul (Kunal Kemmu) and the latter has a communal mindset. At Heera Mandi, Roop bumps into the flirtatious Zafar (Varun Dhawan). Bahaar meanwhile is impressed by Roop and decides to teach her singing. Roop protests and the Chaudharys give in. Satya and others at first are aghast on hearing this decision since Bahaar runs a brothel and that too in the infamous part of the city called Heera Mandi. She decides to learn music under her tutelage. At first she feels lonely but then gets curious by the voice of Bahaar Begum (Madhuri Dixit). After marriage, Roop moves to Husnabad near Lahore where the Chaudharys reside. Dev and Roop get married and the former makes it clear to the latter that this will be a marriage of convenience. Satya, Dev and Dev’s father Balraj (Sanjay Dutt) agree. However, she has a condition – Dev will have to marry her first and only then she’ll move into the house of the Chaudhrys.

Roop at first rejects Satya’s offer but upon knowing her medical condition, she agrees. The families of Roop and Satya go back a long way. Her search takes her to Rajputana, Rajasthan where Roop (Alia Bhatt) resides. Realizing that Dev will be shattered after her demise, she decides to find a second wife for him. Satya Chaudhry (Sonakshi Sinha), wife of Dev Chaudhry (Aditya Roy Kapur) is diagnosed with cancer and she is told that she has just a year or maximum two years to live. KALANK is the story of lovers not destined to be together. So does KALANK manage to be a memorable multi-actor flick, replete with ample entertainment and drama? Or does it fail to entertain? Let’s analyse. KALANK goes one step ahead as it stars six actors, all of whom are big and prominent names in their own right. Even DHAMAAL can be counted here and its recent instalment TOTAL DHAMAAL was one of the biggest multi-starrers in a long time as Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit got added to the star cast. A few franchises like GOLMAAL and HOUSEFULL have kept this tradition alive. At one time, multi-starrers were in vogue but of late, such films barely come out of Bollywood.

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