Yes, I did it. I boldly ventured where no man has gone before - the cinema hall near my house showing 'Thank You'. No, I am not asinine, I don't need any help.(It's another fact that I needed some major counselling for post-traumatic stress disorder AFTER watching the movie.)I allude this mainly to the dearth of decent movies being released in the last few weeks on account of cricket and exams...in the same order. Movie buffs like me will surely understand where I am coming from.
The characters (Strictly in order of acting skills):
- Irrfan Khan: A raving megalomaniac who thinks he understands women.(I wonder how, since Freud himself admitted that his biggest regret was not being able to understand the workings of the fairer sex.)
- Suniel Shetty: A friend of mine recently admiited to the fact that she thought his expression was like that of an aluminium sheet. Go figure. For this movie, I feel he has got his comic timing just right.
- Bobby Deol: "Grunt! Grunt!...Ahem...Lopsided Grin...Grunt!Grunt.." That pretty much sums up his acting skills I guess!
- Rimi Sen - As Irrfan's wife, she has played the part of the obliging but cunning wife to the hilt.
- Sonam Kapoor - Resembling to and with the equivalent acting prowess of a dried Bombay Duck (sukka bombil) on a crash diet[As per Encyclopaedia Brittannica - Harpadon nehereus), fish of the family Synodontidae, found in estuaries of northern India, where it is widely used as a food fish and, when dried, as a condiment.The Bombay duck grows to a length of about 41 cm (16 inches) and is a dull, translucent gray or brown in colour with small, dark speckles. It has a large mouth, a forked tail, and large pectoral fins.]
Celina Jaitley - Can someone please change her makeup artist? With a deathly pallor, and ruby red lips, she looked as though she had strayed from the sets of the Adams Family where she was playing the part of Morticia.
Oh I forgot...Akshay Kumar as the Pied Piper with a flock of adulterous husbands in his wake.
The Plot:
3 philandering husbands. 3 distressed wives. 1 Private Detective (who plays a flute everytime he solves a case)Wives call detective to check on decieving husbands. Detective catches husbands red handed in the most corny situations. Sonam as Ms. Mushy gets suicidal. Detective decides to teach three roving eyes a lesson and bring them back to the path of decency and fidelity...and from then it goes on and on and on and on, with Akshay Kumar in every second frame, there is not much left for me to say.And yes....MAJOR SPOILERS (PEOPLE WHO STILL WANT TO WATCH THIS FLICK INSPITE OF DIRE WARNINGS OF NAUSEA, HEADACHE AND WHAT NOT, PLEASE DO NOT READ AHEAD.) Bobby divorces Sonam. Bobby gets married again to Sonam. Rimi takes husband's properties through some good scheming. Rimi returns husband's properties like a dutiful 'pativrata nari'. Akshay delivers a speech on the greatness of women with the emphasis on how we change our surnames post marriage (gag gag). Any they all live happily ever after. Movie finally ends. You reach for the rope in your handbag and hunt for a sturdy hook to make a noose.
WARNING:
Do not watch it if you have an iota of thinking cell in your brain.
BRAINS TO BE LEFT AT HOME BEFORE WATCHING IT. BRAINS TO BE KEPT IN THE CUPBOARD AND DOOR OF THE CUPBOARD TO BE DOUBLE LOCKED FOR SAFE MEASURE.
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