If it has Vinay Pathak in it along with the usual stage performers union thrown in, one is bound to make an assumption that the movie would be a good one. And you are also quite certain that these movies will not last beyond a week coz for some reason people don’t quite see the star value – which is what sells in India. Having said that, we did have 2-3 great movies last year without any star value whatsoever – a trend that is slowly but surely picking up in India. A trend that debutante director, Srikanth V Velagaleti doesn’t quite capitalize on with some loose direction and loads of errors on consistency. Add to that his inability to hold his own with classy actors such as Vinay Pathak and Saurabh Shukla and you have yourself the version of a Parsee Akuri that has gone horribly wrong coz it wasn’t made by a Bawa. Yes, it is edible. But it could have been so much better than what it eventually turned out to be. Long way to go Shrikant Saar.
Ram (Vinay Pathak) is your average loser 35 year old – and I wonder why there are so many such movies releasing these days; maybe just to remind me that I am slowly but surely getting to a place that is referred to more often than not as “over the hill”. I hereby make a humble request to the people who are responsible for driving Bollywood and for that matter Hollywood to please move focus to much more lucrative options such as movies on the average 25 year old bimbette / dude. Nevertheless, Ram is getting over a break up with Sanjana (Mahie Gill) who is a foul mouthed (both in speech and smell), ambitious woman. She dumps Ram for someone else and is now chasing Ram to get her stuff back. Ram’s detective friend Nandu (Saurabh Shukla) is dead against Sanjana coz he senses a stench when she is around – and that’s not due to her smoking or abusive habit. He just doesn’t like her.
One evening, Ram gets a call from Nandu asking him to meet up ASAP. He reaches the Polo club and has to wait for over an hour before Nandu shows up. Nandu has been pushing Ram to get over Sanjana and find someone new. But Ram thinks his days of “picking up women” are long dead and gone. The impromptu Nandu then goes ahead and asks the girl on the next table, Koel (Mona Singh) to join them for dinner and promptly disappears after a few minutes, leaving Koel and Ram to get to know each other. Koel has just left home that morning after breaking up with Pranay, her boy friend for six years because she finds a cigarette butt with a lipstick mark on it in the back seat of the car. Did I forget to mention the used condom she finds as well… er… sorry. After some small talk and getting Koel to feel better about her life in general, Ram gets her home to sleep…. In the guest room yaar…. Corrupt minded people I say. What follows is a whole lot of confusion and chasing woven with some healthy and clean comedy.
Vinay Pathak and Saurabh Shukla are very good as always. Vinay Pathak also has a double role in the movie with the other one of an underworld don obsessed with French. The rest of the cast is extremely passé. Mona Singh hardly has a couple of dialogues which she delivers in her usual average manner. Mahie Gill goes one step closer to my opinion of her being highly over rated. She hasn’t come remotely close to her Dev D performance ever. Is this another case of succumbing in the shadow of your best performance? Stop thinking about being like Paro my dear Ms. Gill. You cannot have a role like that ever again. Delnaz Paul is at her irritating best as always. She should seriously stop acting – the sooner the better. Overall, a very loosely made movie as mentioned earlier. Could have been much better. 5 on 10 I say.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-N3rEAszYg
Ram (Vinay Pathak) is your average loser 35 year old – and I wonder why there are so many such movies releasing these days; maybe just to remind me that I am slowly but surely getting to a place that is referred to more often than not as “over the hill”. I hereby make a humble request to the people who are responsible for driving Bollywood and for that matter Hollywood to please move focus to much more lucrative options such as movies on the average 25 year old bimbette / dude. Nevertheless, Ram is getting over a break up with Sanjana (Mahie Gill) who is a foul mouthed (both in speech and smell), ambitious woman. She dumps Ram for someone else and is now chasing Ram to get her stuff back. Ram’s detective friend Nandu (Saurabh Shukla) is dead against Sanjana coz he senses a stench when she is around – and that’s not due to her smoking or abusive habit. He just doesn’t like her.
One evening, Ram gets a call from Nandu asking him to meet up ASAP. He reaches the Polo club and has to wait for over an hour before Nandu shows up. Nandu has been pushing Ram to get over Sanjana and find someone new. But Ram thinks his days of “picking up women” are long dead and gone. The impromptu Nandu then goes ahead and asks the girl on the next table, Koel (Mona Singh) to join them for dinner and promptly disappears after a few minutes, leaving Koel and Ram to get to know each other. Koel has just left home that morning after breaking up with Pranay, her boy friend for six years because she finds a cigarette butt with a lipstick mark on it in the back seat of the car. Did I forget to mention the used condom she finds as well… er… sorry. After some small talk and getting Koel to feel better about her life in general, Ram gets her home to sleep…. In the guest room yaar…. Corrupt minded people I say. What follows is a whole lot of confusion and chasing woven with some healthy and clean comedy.
Vinay Pathak and Saurabh Shukla are very good as always. Vinay Pathak also has a double role in the movie with the other one of an underworld don obsessed with French. The rest of the cast is extremely passé. Mona Singh hardly has a couple of dialogues which she delivers in her usual average manner. Mahie Gill goes one step closer to my opinion of her being highly over rated. She hasn’t come remotely close to her Dev D performance ever. Is this another case of succumbing in the shadow of your best performance? Stop thinking about being like Paro my dear Ms. Gill. You cannot have a role like that ever again. Delnaz Paul is at her irritating best as always. She should seriously stop acting – the sooner the better. Overall, a very loosely made movie as mentioned earlier. Could have been much better. 5 on 10 I say.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-N3rEAszYg
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