Rating : Poor (2/5)
Genre : Comedy
Year : 2005
Running time : 2 hrs and 31 minutes
Director : Sujoy Ghosh
Cast : Vivek Oberoi, Mahima Choudhary, Ayesha Takia, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla, Tiku Talsania, Juhi Chawla, Arif Zakaria
HOME DELIVERY : We’d rather eat out !
Sunny Chopra (Oberoi) is a writer – he is the agony uncle for a newspaper, and also writes film scripts. He lives in with his girl-friend and fiancee Jenny (Takia). Trying to meet a deadline while working from home and avoiding his editor (Juhi), Sunny sits in front of his laptop and does little work. He and Jenny make small-talk though – and what insipid small-talk it is – I went off to sleep and had to be prodded awake ! People doing nothing in a film but making some of the most inane conversations I’ve ever heard is super-boring (hint, hint dialogue writers). And Sunny and Jenny and Naani (Jenny’s nickname) ; Ughh! could the names be any more annoying ? The first rule of story-writing – make the characters names dissimilar (rhyme is not a good idea here) – avoids burn-out and trauma for the viewers.
Anyway, like most of our male desi filmi characters, Sunny baba has a little problem – he’s engaged to sweet Jenny but has the hots for Southie film bombshell Maya (Mahima). Therefore Sunny schemes to get Jenny away, for his rendezvous with Maya – she’s coming home for a date. Since Sunny doesn’t have any food at home for the date, he ends up ordering a pizza to be home-delivered. The pizza is delivered by 51 year old Michael (Irani) (here’s another annoying character) but Michael delivers more than pizza, he also provides home-spun lessons in morality for free. Sunny ofcourse is the recipient – but can Michael’s philosophy help steer him away from buxom constantly-dropping-her-pallu-Maya ?
Although the director tries to infuse comedy with Jeetendra-like dream songs, and vignettes of Sunny as a pimply teenager spouting views on girls and what-not, it doesn’t pick up the film from the abyss of flop-dom. The script and screenplay are dead as door-knobs, and as dull as dish-water, and I could go on, however in the interest of time will desist. Direction is average and the songs forgettable. The actors : Oberoi is a director’s actor, here he is unfunny and lacks comic timing. Takia comes across as a sweet babe-in-the woods, with few acting skills. Mahima is pretty snappy as the voluptous Maya. Irani is just plain boring and (makes me) nauseous, but that’s not his fault, it’s the director’s. Shukla and Talsania as Sunny’s obnoxious neighbors are loud and irritating.
There are a number of cameos by “famous” people like Abhishek Bachhan, Sunil Shetty, Karan Johar etc. But “famous” cameos here are like having having caviar when you need basic dal-roti first.
This film is an absolute DO NOT SEE. It’s a nightmare in a nutshell. I mean there is no dearth of terrible movies in Bollywood – take “Maine pyar kyun kiya”, “Kya kool hai hum”, but to make a bad AND boring film – now that takes real (lack of) talent! Ghosh should stick to making “Jhankaar Beat”-ish films. After all when you have not a funny-bone, why attempt a comedy ?
