Two singers making their debut - Shaan and Mika, couldn't have chosen a worse script than this to mark their presence on screen. From the trailers and the movie promotions, one expects the movie to be a brainless comedy, and the movie lives upto that reputation.
For someone, who enjoys watching brainless comedies like Humshakals, Housefull 2 et al, it might be a good (not a great though) entertainer. The first 15 minutes (introducing Mika as Balwinder Singh Ludhianawala in Dabru, a village near Ludhiana and Shaan as Balwinder Singh Patialawala in Mumbai) is pathetic. Equally pathetic is the very predictable last 30 minute hospital sequence, a complete melodrama stereotypical of Bollywood movies of the 90s. The entire concept of Anupam Kher getting involved in an accident, a woman kidnapping his only grandson, reappearing in Mumbai 25 years later and being spotted by Kher and simultaneously getting involved in an accident and losing her memory only to regain the same in the ending sequence of the movie is reminiscent of the movies of the 90s. The saving grace is the sequence in the middle, which brings out the confusion involving people having similar names, and has a few good moments that will crack your hips.
While individually Shaan and Mika do a good job, they probably could have chosen a better script to make their debut and made their presence felt. Supporting actors Anupam Kher, Asrani, Vindu Dara Singh and Rajpal Yadav are a saving grace to the movie.
In terms of music, a couple of tracks by Mika are good, but these are misplaced in the movie - one coming abruptly in the middle and the other at the very end having no connection with the movie.
Two stars to this movie. Watch it if you don't have anything better to do.
For someone, who enjoys watching brainless comedies like Humshakals, Housefull 2 et al, it might be a good (not a great though) entertainer. The first 15 minutes (introducing Mika as Balwinder Singh Ludhianawala in Dabru, a village near Ludhiana and Shaan as Balwinder Singh Patialawala in Mumbai) is pathetic. Equally pathetic is the very predictable last 30 minute hospital sequence, a complete melodrama stereotypical of Bollywood movies of the 90s. The entire concept of Anupam Kher getting involved in an accident, a woman kidnapping his only grandson, reappearing in Mumbai 25 years later and being spotted by Kher and simultaneously getting involved in an accident and losing her memory only to regain the same in the ending sequence of the movie is reminiscent of the movies of the 90s. The saving grace is the sequence in the middle, which brings out the confusion involving people having similar names, and has a few good moments that will crack your hips.
While individually Shaan and Mika do a good job, they probably could have chosen a better script to make their debut and made their presence felt. Supporting actors Anupam Kher, Asrani, Vindu Dara Singh and Rajpal Yadav are a saving grace to the movie.
In terms of music, a couple of tracks by Mika are good, but these are misplaced in the movie - one coming abruptly in the middle and the other at the very end having no connection with the movie.
Two stars to this movie. Watch it if you don't have anything better to do.
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