Mummify these mummies!
zero star
Mini Review:
It's not a love story, it's not a feud story. It's half an idea and half baked film about two best friends now enemies who have kids who fall in love. The kids cannot act and the two mummyji's overact. The story dies within two minutes and the supposed 105 minutes feels like an aeon because of constant Punjabi drumming. The reveal of this feud will make you barf.
Main Review:
Faaltu Family Feud
Two ex best friends live next door to each other and fight over things like 'your maid threw your garbage into my house'. Whaaat? You are expected to laugh at this? This is worse than bad TV.
How did Poonam Dhillon and Supriya Pathak as Lali and Pinky agree to do that scene? Whyyyyyy? How desperate were they to get back on the big screen? Is the writer/director blackmailing these two women? Why else would work in a film like this?
Poonam Dhillon vanishes in the middle of the movie and then appears in the end, and Supriya Pathak offers us a khichdi role of Gujju aunty trying to be Punjabi!
Last week it was Hema Malini in Shimla Mirch, and now these two!
Zero Acting Skills On The Kids
Sunny Singh is great in deadpan roles. He's now being made to emote. NOT possible! His Puneet is so pathetic, I puked in my popcorn.
Sonnalli Seygall is Sanjh. And when you look at her non existent acting skills you wonder if they paid the numerologist to change her name for nothing!
When they embrace, and Sanjh cires, 'I can't..' (yes that's the dialog), a helpful fellow critic at the screening commented, 'Act'.
Nothing in the story makes us like the two lead characters. So you start wondering why they're wearing a uniforms in college? Or is it a scene that shows bachpan ka pyar? Blah!
Punjabis Only Have Weddings And Parathas
The movie starts with a wedding, is about the lead characters wanting to get married and are to get married to two other mostly sex starved characters.
This means Lali and Pinky will wear shaadi ke costumes which are so tacky even Sarojini Nagar shops have better clothes. And why would anyone mention 'Karol Bagh' if you live in Rohini? There are at least 7 malls in that part of Delhi. Obviously 'Krol' bagh is mentioned for a cheap laugh. It didn't work. Hindi Medium did a fantastic job of location snobbery in Delhi brilliantly.
Supriya Pathak is shown wearing an apron and making parathas. If a Delhi housewife has a househelp, she will never ever put on an apron and cook. All she will do is sit at the dining table and add that dollop of white makkhan to the paratha.
And not just the two mummy's, everyone's clothes are so tacky. Women in Delhi are great dressers. So when you see Sanjh dancing in college in an ill-fitting dress, you cringe. In fact the whole production design is just tacky. You can see corners cut everywhere. In fact, some mall scenes look so ordinary, they could have been shot anywhere. The Gangour Sweet shop in the movie looks like the one in Juhu in Bombay, Unfortunately I have visited three Gangour sweet shops in Delhi, and the nearest one to Rohini (where the characters live) is in Preet Vihar. To assume no one would care about geography, that's dumb. What's even worse is that 'Gangour' is Rajasthani, and it means Shiva and Parvati. Why would Punjabi Sikhs name their shop Gangour?
But that's neither here nor there.
So back to the wedding opening scene. For some reason, the two mamajis are also enemies. They actually have a scene where both drunk mamajis decide to throw daals at one another at the buffet.
That should be enough indication for anyone to leave the theater. And the horrendous Punjabi wedding band background music that plays all through the film, no matter what the scene.
And am truly sorry for Netflix who bought this film. Let this be a lesson to not buy films from any production house in bulk.
Men Who Think Women Fight Over Them.
If you are still mildly curious as to why the two friends are pissed off at one another, am sorry to say the reveal at the end of the film is so sexist, it is appalling. The writer director believes that two women will fight over a man for years once he has dumped both of them (after two timing them with a third).
Are your serious? If a man two times two women, they would probably get together and plot to kill him. That would make for a better plot.
Then the director has us believe that Varun Sharma is the sex god young Lali and Pinky are fighting over! And that he grows up to become Alok Nath.
Enough said. Cannot offer even half a star to such trash. 105 minutes should have been fun and games but it feels like an insult to the audience.
P.S.: You like the Punjabi songs? Listen to them on a free app. This film is a waste of your money
Even the gawdawful Hulchul did family feud better
these mummies
105 minutes too long
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