What is better than one big fat Indian wedding? A whole lineup of them. And that is exactly what the Netflix movie Wedding Season bases its romcom on.

Trending on Netflix’s Top 10 Films in India Today list, Wedding Season focuses on the topsy-turvy love story between two Indian-American millennials — Ravi (Suraj Sharma) and Asha (Pallavi Sharda).

Coaxed into going on an ‘arranged date’ with each other by their families, Asha and Ravi decide to fake being a couple to keep prying members of the Indian community off their back as they are made to attend a slew of summer weddings. The two eventually fall in love, as all lead characters are destined to in romcoms, and decide to give their fake relationship a real shot.

There are no high-stakes, no nail-biting moments in this love story, but Wedding Season is a feel-good film that you can finish with a tub of ice cream. Here’s what to expect from the one-hour-38-minute movie.

Hallmark movie in a desi setting

Wedding Season has the stamp of Hallmark films, the frothy romcoms that Hallmark Channel drops during festive seasons in the US. These movies have several tropes — a quirky meet-cute between the couple, a character with a secret, another character with a job aspiration, shady ex-lovers, a relationship misunderstanding and a man who is secretly rich or is from royalty. The Wedding Season screenplay follows this formula to the T but in a desi setting with brown undertones.

So Asha and Ravi get off on the wrong foot at their first meeting. Asha aspires to wow investors from Singapore, which leads to her getting a promotion, while Ravi keeps his college-drop-out past a secret. Asha’s ex-fiance, Krish, is mentioned but never shown, to drive home the fact that she’s nursing a broken heart. Ravi and Asha part ways temporarily because Asha misunderstands Ravi’s motives behind investing in her initiative. Ravi, who had quit his job at the time of meeting Asha, turns out to be very rich as he has shares in Facebook.

The Suraj Sharma-Pallavi Sharda pairing

Pallavi Sharda’s Asha is out-going and straight-forward, while Suraj Patel’s Ravi is low-key and reserved. The story begins on the premise that Asha and Ravi don’t hit it off on their first date, but the ease they share with each other drives much of the anticipation in this romantic comedy. As they start attending a string of weddings together, you can feel the chemistry developing between Asha and Ravi to the point that you start rooting for their happily ever after.

Pallavi, who had starred opposite Ranbir Kapoor in the 2013 film Besharam, looks comfortable in the role of a millennial career woman who is okay being by herself. Life of Pi actor Suraj, who has done notable films like Million Dollar Arm and Phillauri, plays the perfect foil to Pallavi with his understated performance.

The Asian American community scenes: Still relatable

This is an Indian American community setting that many millennials would relate to, with the parents taking an active role in finding a partner for their children and also setting them up for dates. Wedding Season keeps the focus on the two lead characters, based in New Jersey, as they deal with family and social pressure to get married while trying to do well in their job or figure out what to do next in their career.

Ravi and Asha’s character arcs are fleshed out better than their parents, who come across as quite unidimensional in their obsession with their kids’ marriage. The neighbourhood aunties are portrayed as extremely judgemental and are spotted only snooping around and gossiping at family functions, and the fact that Asha and Ravi begin to fake a relationship because of them reminds us of Season 1 of Bridgerton where Simon Basset (Rege-Jean Page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) initially fake their courtship.

Visual treat

Lavish weddings, temples, desi food and people dressed in colourful Indian wear -- Wedding Season serves up a visual treat. From an intimate wedding where drinks are served in coconuts to a grand one where the groom turns up in an auto-rickshaw modified to look like an elephant, there’s a bunch of quirks to spice up the setting, along with a dance number with which the film ends.