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Director: Sajid Khan
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From Time Out London
Bollywood’s latest excuse for a comical assault on our sensibilities amounts to little more than a serious embarrassment. The thin plot involves shameless ‘homages’ to at least five Hollywood comedies including ‘Night at the Museum’, ‘Meet the Parents’ and, um, ‘You, Me and Dupree’. Will goofy Aarush (Kumar) find true love with Sandy (Padukone) or with his ‘childhood buddy’ Bob (Deshmukh)? Spiced up with semi-nude A-list leads, inexplicable ‘exotic’ locations and with cameos from a tiger, a parrot and the Royal family, this represents everything that’s reprehensible about commercial Hindi cinema. Most objectionable is the use of a running gay gag and a black baby to evoke laughter. Contrary to what one of its five songs says, I know what you should do: stay away from this loser!Author: Anil Sinanan
Time Out London Issue 2071: April 29 – May 5, 2010
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- DK said...
- Posted on Oct 01 2010 00:50 Funny, Not just Funny My Sons Favorite Movie as well, He watched this movie almost 25 times.... He loves the SONGS aapni to jaise taise.... !!! Ashay is Very good As always....
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- Rosie said...
- Posted on Jun 07 2010 20:22 Such a great film, so funny.
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- Tally said...
- Posted on May 30 2010 08:58 One of the worst films I have ever seen. If you want to waste your money, time and everything else, I totally reccomend this. The interval was the most entertaining and the Orange adverts where the highlight in terms of comedy.
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- satwant said...
- Posted on May 30 2010 08:57 this was a very crap film without a story line ... rubbish !!
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- mandy said...
- Posted on May 24 2010 21:29 that's quite funny. Akshay's rle is very good.
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- Harvinder said...
- Posted on May 20 2010 15:58 I ended up laughing becasue the audience was in stitches but this was really bad. It got going at the start of the second half for about 45 minutes when everyone was lying and getting found out but the first half is barely watchable. It is derivative in a dull way and the performances are tired. Akshay has performed this role numerous times and it looks like he's calculating the box office take in his head. His character is too naive to be believable: why would he buy a tiger just because it has the same name as a parrot. I enjoyed the electrocution joke mainly becasue I hoped it might be fatal.
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- Rumaanah said...
- Posted on May 16 2010 11:18 going to watch it today heard its good by my dad and bros
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- Mehak said...
- Posted on May 15 2010 23:21 i was really looking for a website which can give me updates reagrding hindi films and i have found that. i m really addicted to films and when i came to chatham i was only sad about the thing that whether i can watch hindi movies over here or not. bt i m happy now.
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- Gemini said...
- Posted on May 15 2010 14:26 The movie was funny..Akshay was really good.!!
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- Rumaanah said...
- Posted on May 15 2010 11:27 i really want to watch it .......
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- usman latif khawaja said...
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Posted on May 05 2010 23:45
for homeless vagrants looking for temporary shelter and even than it is a serious health hazard as you might get apoplexy watching the antics of the so called stars who are even less comic than my old dog -this is the final nail in bw coffin -
the next one kites will be the worst movie ever made regards of brett ratner ,with a blond indian romancing a mexican latino in mid west with a lot of car crashes and stolen soundtrack -torture tarantino style - Report as inappropriate
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- viewer said...
- Posted on May 04 2010 12:14 Took my 12 year old brother to watch this, he found it funny. It made me laugh too. That was good enough for me.
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- khan said...
- Posted on May 02 2010 14:28 it is rediculas...and boring
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- pawan said...
- Posted on Apr 25 2010 12:50 hiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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Cast & crew
Director: Sajid Khan
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Ritesh Deshmukh, Lara Dutta
Genre(s): Musicals
Rated: 12A
Duration: 155 mins
UK Release: Apr 30 2010
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