Laxmikant Kabadiya (Anupam Kher) dies and his family wants to keep his death from the world for a couple days and then another couple days and then another few days…

This is Hollywood’s marriage with Bollywood, it seems. One thing is for sure, this director/writer shouldn’t have been the priest!! Salman and Ali think smiling is the only form of acting. And this supposed musical has awful music.

A simple adorable script narrated with creative use of the camera, color and light. Pankaj Kapoor gives yet another excellent performance.

CHAKDE! INDIA: I am not a hockey fan and usually can just about tolerate Shah Rukh Khan. And yet, I enjoyed the movie thoroughly. Brilliant writing by Jaideep Sahni!!

The movie is supposed to be about Harilal Mohandas Gandhi but ends up becoming about Gandhiji and India’s freedom struggle. Though the audience is denied insight into the minds of the characters, they are given some brilliant performances by the lead cast.

An open mind helps. I laughed out loud a few times in the first half - playing along, humoring the makers, taking silliness at face value, generally taking a chill pill. Really, otherwise I wouldn’t have “liked” the movie even this much. But, the jokes took a sudden dip in the second half and the last half hour literally wore me out. I will make my peace with being labeled a stuck-up.

Half an hour into the movie, I was amazed at how well I knew the characters. This was achieved by characters saying and doing things in a small sub-plot. Pretty impressive, that they didn’t go the mundane voiceover route. Unfortunately though, most of the characters continue doing the same thing for the next hour and a half too.

Only days after the inafamous ‘kiss’ with the Manchester Untied player, Bipasha Basu has been seen out and about with Saif Ali Khan, and both of them seemed to be living it up.

It is a shame that another brilliant concept has been flushed down the drain because of half-baked attempts at narrating and acting. The product comes across as tacky because of the constant shuffle between comedy, unintentional comedy, a few extra-predictable scenes, and unexpected plot twists.

Calling this movie slapstick is an offense. Do pee-gases-poop-jokes really make even slapstick-lovers laugh? Are falling people, water fights, mistaken identities so amusing that you can make an entire movie out of it? By they way, did anyone even consider real dialogues versus what the actors seem to have come up with from their own stand-up acts?