Patel ki Punjabi Shaadi! To begin, this film should not have been made. But thanks to its producers, it got made only to put us through the turmoil of watching it and “write your review” on it.
I watched this Paresh Rawal and Rishi Kapoor starrer last night, only to experience a sleepless night after the trauma that was its screening. I kept wondering throughout what I had done wrong to deserve this punishment. By now I have come to a conclusion that surely I must have done some serious personal damage to the makers of Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi that they put me through this pathetic – apparently – a comedy drama.
It won’t even fall under the ‘it’s so bad, it’s good’ category.
The story was an overdose of emotional crap of ‘Gujarat ki Asmita’ – (Pride of Gujarat) vs Punjabi cliche that they are always loud and so over-friendly!
Hasmukh Patel (Paresh Rawal) plays a conservative Gujarati, who owns a grocery shop. He hates Punjabis because of Pad Singh. (Please don’t bother to ask who is Pad Singh and why Patel hates him so much?)
Anyway! So, yes, as destiny would have it, Guggi Tandon (Rishi Kapoor), a cliched Punjabi character – a flamboyant who always holds a whiskey da glass in his hand and wears flashy clothes, comes to live in the Gujju society near Patel’s house. Being a ‘No non-veg, no Daru, no loud music’ Gujju society, Guggi and his family’s arrival triggers many fights between him and Patel. Obviously, there are crappy series of comedic situations.
Monty (Vir Das), Guggi’s son falls in love with Patel’s daughter, Pooja (Payal Ghosh).
Will the Tandon family win the hearts of their Gujarati neighbors? We know the End!
The plot was absolutely not the issue with me. The whole experience of watching the film was. The comedy was insipid and so boring that you’ll be aghast. It was quite a shock because two such brilliant veterans could come up with something so dull was a surprise.
I don’t want to discourage the debutant – Payal Ghosh. But seriously my honest feedback would be – Sweetie you really need to take some acting lessons, more importantly, watch good films.
Prem Chopra, Vir Das, Divya Seth (the one who played Shahid Kapoor’s mom in Jab We Met), Bharati Achrekar managed to do over the top humour bizarrely.
Good scripts don’t get producers. And then we have Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi being made and how! There are much better avenues where you can spend your time and money. But even if you bore yourself sitting idly, it will be better than watching this film.
That’s all!
