This movie was hyped up a bit for me by some of my friends and since my mother brought home a DVD, I thought "Why not, let's give this movie a try." So, we popped it into the DVD player and off it didn't go, because the DVD player is now officially a piece of crap and claimed there was "No Disc" after "Disc Reading" for a few minutes. So, we hooked up a laptop to the TV and off it went.
As I said, I was excited for this movie because the idea of a fake Indian gay couple being found out by a theth Punjabi mother was fairly amusing. And you know, that part did end up being very amusing. Unfortunately, that bit only lasted about ten minutes. There were then another 130 minutes or so of putting up with the storyless piece of crap produced by Karan Johar and enterprise. Spoiler alert here (a bit too late anyway), but there's only so long you can stretch a movie about two straight guys who pretend to be gay guys to live in a particularly nice apartment (the premise, although, is a bit over-stretched from the beginning, not to mention the fact that it's ripped off, badly mind you, from this recent American movie.)
Also, amongst other things I would like to make clear to the rest of this world is that Abhishek Bachchan, to me as a straight male, comes off as not anywhere nearly good-looking enough to be working in movies, and particularly not this one in which the entire fucking premise of the movie is supposed to be two extremely attractive straight guys who pretend to be a gay couple. And no, he's not one of those actors whose acting is so par excellence that it can compensate for his average or below-average looks. Also, can't the fellow shave? Ever? Looks completely dreadful, especially because he's always in stark contrast to J. Abraham who, I'm sure even most straight males can agree, is an extremely attractive man. Thankfully, the director at least succumbed to this truth that even though he picked Bachchan for this role, he could never make the bloody fellow take his shirt off, and I honestly would have thrown up right then if he had.
So, in short, what is worthwhile is really to find a YouTube clip with the one scene from the movie that is priceless which is when Bachchan's mother comes to terms with her son's gayness and does a grih pravesh for her new son-in-law. What is unfortunate is that movies like these make me even less likely to watch the new Bollywood production to hit the silver screen.
As I said, I was excited for this movie because the idea of a fake Indian gay couple being found out by a theth Punjabi mother was fairly amusing. And you know, that part did end up being very amusing. Unfortunately, that bit only lasted about ten minutes. There were then another 130 minutes or so of putting up with the storyless piece of crap produced by Karan Johar and enterprise. Spoiler alert here (a bit too late anyway), but there's only so long you can stretch a movie about two straight guys who pretend to be gay guys to live in a particularly nice apartment (the premise, although, is a bit over-stretched from the beginning, not to mention the fact that it's ripped off, badly mind you, from this recent American movie.)
Also, amongst other things I would like to make clear to the rest of this world is that Abhishek Bachchan, to me as a straight male, comes off as not anywhere nearly good-looking enough to be working in movies, and particularly not this one in which the entire fucking premise of the movie is supposed to be two extremely attractive straight guys who pretend to be a gay couple. And no, he's not one of those actors whose acting is so par excellence that it can compensate for his average or below-average looks. Also, can't the fellow shave? Ever? Looks completely dreadful, especially because he's always in stark contrast to J. Abraham who, I'm sure even most straight males can agree, is an extremely attractive man. Thankfully, the director at least succumbed to this truth that even though he picked Bachchan for this role, he could never make the bloody fellow take his shirt off, and I honestly would have thrown up right then if he had.
So, in short, what is worthwhile is really to find a YouTube clip with the one scene from the movie that is priceless which is when Bachchan's mother comes to terms with her son's gayness and does a grih pravesh for her new son-in-law. What is unfortunate is that movies like these make me even less likely to watch the new Bollywood production to hit the silver screen.
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