When you plan to go out and watch a movie with your family and the cast has the likes of Sushmita Sen, Randeep Hooda, Rati Agnihotri, Suresh Oberoi, Depal Shaw, international supermodel Naomi Campbell, underground rapper Sticky Fingaz and Vincent Pannetta, you would think you have a made a good choice which would keep you entertained for the next two-and-a-half hours.
But you soon get a reality check.
After watching for 20 minutes (at the most) you start wondering what in the world were the producers, Sa Re Ga Ma Ltd and co-producer Derena de Niro (daughter of the legendry actor Robert de Niro), thinking while they decided to let loose this movie on the rest of the world.
Maybe they just wanted to be the first to come up with a Hollywood-Bollywood collaboration on many levels in the mainstream Hindi/English cinema.
The movie basically deals with the dilemma faced by relationships in of people from different walks of life.
You basically get all the trouble you want in families from this movie - be it the working husband and working wife's relationship; or a mother-son relationship, an old fashioned chauvinist's relation with his wife or a live-in relationship.
The concept is interesting but the treatment, along with the performances, makes it dull viewing.
The direction and cinematography just simply fail to get the message of the movie across most of the time and the low lighting effects make you doze off in the darkened theatre even before you have had a chance to get involved.
On my movie meter, a well justified one star is all I can hand out the effort I had to put in to get thru this ordeal.
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