4 worst Hindi movies of May
The summer is upon us. That time of year when filmmakers think they can get away with murder (so to speak) because people will do anything for air-conditioning, including a trip to the multiplex, no matter how bad the movie.
Allow The Vigil Idiot to recap his (sweat-free) month of May at the movies.
Haunted
"Haunted," starring Mimoh aka Mahaakshay aka that guy with less expressions than my cupboard, is that rare gem of a comedy which actually has you bursting your spleen throughout.
Of course, there is that slight matter of the makers intending it to be a horror flick when they started out.
My personal favorite scene is where the lead couple are sitting outside on the veranda in the middle of the night, and the guy decides to lighten the mood by showing off his break dancing skills ... while they’re on the run from a killer ghost whose sole mission in the afterlife is to get the girl for himself.
Ragini MMS
What do you get when you mash together "The Blair Witch Project", "Paranormal Activity" and a bunch of gags from a bunch of other horror movies?
You get a horror movie that’s not very good.
And what do you get when you add a bit of "127 hours" to that horror mash?
You get a very long horror movie that’s not very good.
While this story, about a guy who’s placed hidden cameras all over a shady bungalow to record him doing the dirty with his girlfriend, isn’t exactly the worst movie in the world, it is far from the best ... or the scariest ... or even the MMS-iest.
Love U ... Mr. Kalakaar
("Love U ... Mr. Artist")
This is a movie where a guy, who is apparently the best manager in the country, makes his daughter’s cartoonist fiancé take complete control over his company for three months, demanding that he increase their profit margins if he wants to be deemed worthy of son-in-law status.
No. This does not really happen in family-run Indian businesses.
Read The Vigil Idiot’s complete review.
"Naughty @ 40"
Inspired (you know how Bollywood loves that word) by the Steve Carell starrer "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", funny man Govinda takes on the role of the guy who hasn’t gotten any in four decades.
I can see why they chose him for that role, too. Govinda is a lot like the Indian Steve Carell. Maybe not in terms of funny, but they’re both the same height.
With gags ranging from Govinda in a mini-skirt to Govinda at a massage parlor, this is his comedy masterclass.
You can only imagine the high-browness of the humor on offer when the main plot revolves around him getting married to an innocent village lass with the sole intention of getting him to lose his virginity.
