This movie is like an overview of India and its people. The movie opens with all the lovable aspects of India - the caring neighbours, the adorable superstitions, harmony amongst religious diversity and friendly people in general. Only one crack is visible at this point, that of two brothers who dont talk to each other anymore. But as the movie goes on, more and more cracks are made visible - the heroine's father wants to get her married even though she wants to pursue a career first, a neighbour is having an extra-marital affair, and finally the big one - religious quarrels and destruction sparked off in the most silliest of ways.
The hero and his grandmother are slowly disillusioned as the movie progresses. All this is shown in a very lighthearted way until the end where a tragedy almost occurs.
I would have ended the movie differently - if it was up to me, Abhishek Bachan's character would have died at the end, and that too willingly sacrificing himself to avoid the religious clashes in the neighbourhood. I think that would have been the appropriate ending to the movie. But the filmmakers wanted to end on a positive note for some reason - my guess is that a tragic ending would make all the people villains, hence all Indians villains, and I am guessing the filmmakers did not want to make such a statement; instead a happy ending seems to say that the people, even with all their faults, are innocent. A tragic ending would have made the movie a masterpiece, but alas, the filmmakers chose otherwise.
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