Genre: Comedy

Release Date: 15th April 2011

Runtime: 114 mins

Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba

Writer: Mehul Suri, Gautam Mehra

Cast: Om Puri, Deepak Dobriyal, Shreyas Talpade

Language: Hindi

 

Rating: 1.5/5

 

Three brothers who can't stand each other are brought together by the death of their grandfather. For in his will lies the promise of enough wealth to solve all their personal woes. And they are a woeful lot indeed.

 

Chixy Singh (Om Puri), the eldest, is the crabby owner of an undergarment accessory store that attracts more flies than customers. Happy Singh (Deepak Dobriyal) is a dentist with more debts than patients. Fancy Singh (Shreyas Talpade), the youngest, is a two-bit actor with Hollywood dreams. Each harbours deep rooted grudges against the other.

 

However, for them to inherit their proud grand-dad's sprawling estate on the hills of Himachal, they must spend one night together for three years at his ramshackle mountain cabin on his death anniversary. The film begins on the night of the third year when tempers are raging, as is the snowy blizzard outside.

 

And that's where it should have ended.

 

With a setup so well canned for good old fashioned situational comedy, failure to get a laugh can only be the result of a complete misreading of the aspects of humour itself. Not that the film doesn't try - it tries too hard. Apart from the constant squabbling and one-upmanship among the brothers, there's also a frozen dog, an unfortunate thief, hippie girls serving pot parathas, a power crazy cop with a torture kit made out of household appliances, a demolition squad caught in a crossfire, furious flashbacks of rustic rural drama, and more.

 

There are also doses of painful slapstick, puns created by misspoken English, and misunderstandings galore. Yet, what could have been a comedy of errors turns disastrously into a series of errors in comedy. Each hyper imaginative stretch of the plot is a stretch on viewer patience. The situations for the situational comedy quickly turn contrived and the slapstick falls too short of what we have come to enjoy with guilty pleasure from a Shetty or a Bazmee flick.

 

There are about two minutes of laughter in this two hour movie. The rest is only as interesting as watching three fools bumbling about in the dark. Which, would have been okay if you didn't feel like the fourth for having sat through it.