The movie is as funny as it is endearing. From a scary visit to Santa, a boy’s dream for a Red Ryder BB gun, an unwanted bunny suit from Auntie, the disastrous turkey scene, and of course, the “Major Award,” an obnoxious fishnet stocking lamp leg that dad wins. In “A Christmas Story,” the dad constantly battles his furnace in the basement where he wrestles, rants and spews obscenities - “that are still hanging in space somewhere over Lake Michigan.” It is a darling movie that touches on many funny family dynamics during the holidays in the 1940s. Unless of course gnashing your teeth and wasting your money on mindless, tedious comedy is your favourite hobby.What in the world does this have to do with a holiday movie? Well, it doesn’t really, except that every time I think about my husband and his ongoing struggle with the pool filter, I can’t help but think about the movie, “A Christmas Story.” And then I laugh. Hello Darling needs to be avoided at all costs. Although in a couple of scenes Gul Panag has the 'Help, what am I doing here?' look. Searching and seeking desperately for a redeeming feature there is just one the entire cast who have tried their best to salvage the film through pithy, half-baked situations, dialogues laced with sexual innuendoes and downright in-your-face vulgarity. Pritam's music doesn't help the film but could bring on a migraine if one is susceptible to them. Phew, now that is really too much masala for a single dish. But no, the director also wants to tell us about how the film isn't simply about sexual harassment, it's also about gender equality and consideration for working mothers. Since these women have enough on their hands you hope the boss learns his lesson fast and the ordeal will end for the entire audience. Any guesses about what or rather who was the real-life inspiration behind this incident? There is also an entire sequence about the woman servants in the locality landing up at Javed's house to complain about his errant ways. So enters Seema Biswas as Phoolan Tai running an organisation called Pati Sudharak Samiti where husbands are beaten and coerced into redirecting their libido strictly at their wives and ignoring the rest of womankind.
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Just when you are coming to terms with the general air of silliness, the director brings in the gay angle, the eunuchs begging at street corners and Javed Jaffrey running across the city in a pink nightie.ĭivya Dutta (Purvi) is Javed's long-suffering wife who decides to seek professional help.
And the script writer and the director in their ludicrous attempts to get a laugh, make everybody out to be buffoons whether it is doctors - who pronounce a patient as dead even though he's hale and hearty - or the office peon, who places rat poison right next to the sugar bowl on the kitchen table. So these three women have a 'great' idea on their hands but set about executing it in the most cliched and ridiculous fashion, making stupid mistakes from the first scene to the last. Celina teams up with Gul Panag (Mansi) the dignified corporate lady and Eesha Koppikar (Satvati), a newbie who has just come on board so that the lazy, good for nothing, tyrannical sexist boss can be taught a lesson once and for all. But she doesn't realise she's the laughing stock of the entire office as Javed brags about their affair with reckless abandon. Celina Jaitley (Candy) is having an affair with her boss Javed Jaffrey (Hardik). Sachin Yardi and Pankaj Trivedi have obviously been inspired by the popular Hollywood comedy Nine to Five (1980). The film is like a badly cooked stew where the writers were so busy tossing different ingredients into the pot they never really had time or the inclination to think about what their concoction would ultimately turn into.
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