Team FC
Rajkumar Santoshi’s movie treated its female characters as moral lessons for the male leads, was deliberately crammed with clichés, and is a masterclass in overacting. However, it’s also hilarious in the way it cuts the male ego down to size by making clueless men who think they know what they are doing, the butt of most of the film’s jokes.
A stubborn patriarch hellbent on marrying his son into a wealthy family, and a mother who has a spidey sense for her son, a college that’s actually a palace — the ridiculous excess of Karan Johar’s family drama is in a league of its own.
A man unwilling to take responsibility after getting his girlfriend pregnant should be enough of a reason to deter one from Siddharth Anand’s Salaam Namaste. Fortunately or unfortunately, there’s more to this film. The idea of two successful non-resident Indians meeting in Melbourne, falling in love and living together was all sorts of attractive.
Akshay Kumar’s panauti (an unlucky person), Chunky Panday’s Aakhri Pasta, and Arjun Rampal as an intelligence officer — this is where the jokes begin in Sajid Khan’s Housefull (which is a seriously guilty pleasure considering Khan has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women).
This film should be a feminist’s nightmare. Who can forget the scene from Abhinav Kashyap’s Dabangg, in which the hero, a chauvinistic police officer, threatens to slap women and (as if that wasn’t enough) also coerces them into marrying him? Fortunately for both the film and the audience’s sanity,