Teen Thay Bhai marks the debut of two people onto the big screen. The first is Mrigdeep Singh Lamba who makes his entry as a director. The other is the super star of the idiot box, Govinda’s niece - Ragini Khanna (Bhaskar Bharti / Sasural Genda Phool). When ROMP would have looked at the resume of this Assistant Director of hits like Don, misses like Yuvraaj and would have said to himself that this dude seems to be a decent bet. But I would also hazard a guess that ROMP has not kept himself as part of this production venture and has allowed Lamba to take as many liberties as he wanted. The resultant movie is one that seems significantly over the top, peppered with slapstick humour and a mish mash of sorts. And during the entire sham you are left wondering what 2 class actors who usually go by the names of Om Puri and Deepak Dobriyal are doing on screen.
The story primary revolves around 3 brothers who can barely look at each other or listen to the other’s voice, leave along staying under the same roof for a few minutes. The Gill family has been bought up by their Dadaji (Yograj Singh) who like any traditional Punjabi from the village is passionate about his land and doesn’t want to sell it off to anyone and brushes off a prospective buyer much to the disappointment of his eldest grandson Shikharjeet aka Chixie. So when Chixie decides to se. ll of his portion of the land, he gets a dose of “Tu apni maa to bech aaya”!!! (you have sold off your mother – when loosely translated coz these villagers treat their land like their mothers). Chixie thinks he has had enough and walks out of home to try and make something out of his life. A few decades later Chixie (Om Puri) finds himself married to a nag and the father of three extremely large sized daughters who are not able to find any suitable grooms. Most of them run away on sight. Chixie’s younger brother Harpreet aka Happy Gill (Deepak Dobriyal) is a dentist whose diagnosis of every single problem is “Shifting Pain”. The youngest, Fancy (Shreyas Talpade) is passionate about riding, acting and his brown Pomeranian Shanky and is absolutely good for nothing. Their gory lives are turned better when Dadaji passes away and leaves them a fortune of sorts. But to earn the fortune, they have to spend 3 days every year for the next 3 years under the same roof. Quite a challenge for these nitwits.
Other than Om Puri and Deepak Dobriyal who make the script look better than it actually is, there is not much to look forward to in TTB. Ragini Khanna is refreshing and can probably give Anushka Sharma a run for her money for the best smile in Bollywood but that’s about where it ends. Too small a role for me to make any judgement about her acting skills and I would be unfair if I didn’t say there was some potential there. Rounding off the acting department with the biggest misfit in this movie – Shreyas Talpade who cannot speak Punjabi to save his life and has done his capabilities a lot of damage with this movie. He is much better than what you see in TTB. Should make some better choices in the future. Overall TTB, as mentioned earlier doesn’t have too much of direction, script or editing. Could have done with a truck load of cuts. Vastly disappointing. 4 on 10 thanks to some acting from Om Puri and Dobriyal. Coimpletely forgettable other than that.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6XG8ZO5UI
The story primary revolves around 3 brothers who can barely look at each other or listen to the other’s voice, leave along staying under the same roof for a few minutes. The Gill family has been bought up by their Dadaji (Yograj Singh) who like any traditional Punjabi from the village is passionate about his land and doesn’t want to sell it off to anyone and brushes off a prospective buyer much to the disappointment of his eldest grandson Shikharjeet aka Chixie. So when Chixie decides to se. ll of his portion of the land, he gets a dose of “Tu apni maa to bech aaya”!!! (you have sold off your mother – when loosely translated coz these villagers treat their land like their mothers). Chixie thinks he has had enough and walks out of home to try and make something out of his life. A few decades later Chixie (Om Puri) finds himself married to a nag and the father of three extremely large sized daughters who are not able to find any suitable grooms. Most of them run away on sight. Chixie’s younger brother Harpreet aka Happy Gill (Deepak Dobriyal) is a dentist whose diagnosis of every single problem is “Shifting Pain”. The youngest, Fancy (Shreyas Talpade) is passionate about riding, acting and his brown Pomeranian Shanky and is absolutely good for nothing. Their gory lives are turned better when Dadaji passes away and leaves them a fortune of sorts. But to earn the fortune, they have to spend 3 days every year for the next 3 years under the same roof. Quite a challenge for these nitwits.
Other than Om Puri and Deepak Dobriyal who make the script look better than it actually is, there is not much to look forward to in TTB. Ragini Khanna is refreshing and can probably give Anushka Sharma a run for her money for the best smile in Bollywood but that’s about where it ends. Too small a role for me to make any judgement about her acting skills and I would be unfair if I didn’t say there was some potential there. Rounding off the acting department with the biggest misfit in this movie – Shreyas Talpade who cannot speak Punjabi to save his life and has done his capabilities a lot of damage with this movie. He is much better than what you see in TTB. Should make some better choices in the future. Overall TTB, as mentioned earlier doesn’t have too much of direction, script or editing. Could have done with a truck load of cuts. Vastly disappointing. 4 on 10 thanks to some acting from Om Puri and Dobriyal. Coimpletely forgettable other than that.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6XG8ZO5UI
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