Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)

While this is the name of one of Groove Armada's albums, it also happens to be the theme of Mr Hot & Mr Kool.

Yes, my unfortunate tryst with B grade Bollywood movies continues. Now B grade might conjure up mental images of a skin flick with Payal Rohatgi (who else?!) in the lead role, but dont raise your eyebrows just yet. This one is B grade stricly for the quality of the movie and is devoid of sleaze. Ofcourse, when I 'picked' this movie up I was mostly aware of what lay in store. Like all other times, my sole objective for watching this movie was getting through 2 hours.

The movie stars all newcomers in lead roles and some familiar support cast. And so the story goes that two good for nothing losers from some dehaat in India land up in London overnight listening to advice from a local quack. They land up a job in some company called LeLe undergarments (why am I writing this?) whose owner, Shahbaaz Khan, is always hitting on one of the employees Pooja De. Time for Corny joke 1 -> Mr LeLe: Pooja De De .. Pooja: Kya du? While you go 'Jeez!' listening to this you can tell that there are more of such corny jokes coming along and thats the only aspect where the movie does not disappoint =))

Back to the story, Zulfi Sayed (who?) aka Lakshmanprasad something becomes Lucky and Yash Pandit (again, who??) aka Prem Amar Tripathi becomes Pat after they land in London. Now that they have a job they start looking for the 2nd most important thing that they'd set out in search for - a woman in their lives. Lucky thinks he is geting lucky with a girl but suddenly loses interest in her after Pat cons him into believing that she is indeed seeing Pat and not Lucky. Along the while, Pat actually falls for Pooja (yes Pooja De De) and then the movie winds up after sorting out all the confusion.

Khalid Mohammed, my favorite movie critic and columnist, once wrote reviewing for Anupama Verma, 'Anupama should stick to modeling; clay, that is'. I'd say the same for Zulfi Sayed. He carries a deadpan face throughout the movie and delivers all dialogues without bothering to emote once. Yash Pandit on the other hand emotes like he's filling in for Zulfi too and ends up hamming most of his scenes. The ladies are extremely forgettable, both in the looks and acting departments.

To sum it up, I got what I was looking for from the movie, something to kill 2 hours with. Watch it if you have absolutely nothing to do;)

Thus ends my first attempt at reviewing a movie. Ripping it apart to shreds feels good!