Toh Baat Pakki! (2010)
First and foremost, Queen T looks like a snacc from the first shot to the last. She is also undeniably the best part about this movie, and the most memorable one.
Had the script been a little better, this could have been one of the most hilarious movies to come out in the last decade, especially considering the comic geniuses it has in its cast- Tabu, Sharman Joshi, and Ayub Khan. Vatsal Seth was just average, and Yuvika Chaudhary below average. The kid who played Shlok was funnier than these two combined. Sharman, Tabu, and Ayub though, have effortless comic timing, which gave the movie enough funny moments to keep me hooked till the end, but not enough, because of which I was impatiently waiting for it to end. The casteism was of course, all too apparent, and really made me wish that I could slap whoever had forced those dialogues in. The movie also tries to be weirdly #feminist, mostly through Rajeshwari (Queen T, who else), and had that been explored with more nuance, it could have been a saving grace, but it just came off as being oddly inserted and nothing else.
Before I complete my "review" of this thoroughly unsatisfying experience, I must add that Vatsal and Sharman had wayyyyy more chemistry than either of them had with Yuvika. It's a shame this movie couldn't be explicitly gay, because now that would have been truly trailblazing and entertaining. Sigh. Another one on the list of "could have, SHOULD have been gay, but heteronormativity ruined everything". RIP.
Had the script been a little better, this could have been one of the most hilarious movies to come out in the last decade, especially considering the comic geniuses it has in its cast- Tabu, Sharman Joshi, and Ayub Khan. Vatsal Seth was just average, and Yuvika Chaudhary below average. The kid who played Shlok was funnier than these two combined. Sharman, Tabu, and Ayub though, have effortless comic timing, which gave the movie enough funny moments to keep me hooked till the end, but not enough, because of which I was impatiently waiting for it to end. The casteism was of course, all too apparent, and really made me wish that I could slap whoever had forced those dialogues in. The movie also tries to be weirdly #feminist, mostly through Rajeshwari (Queen T, who else), and had that been explored with more nuance, it could have been a saving grace, but it just came off as being oddly inserted and nothing else.
Before I complete my "review" of this thoroughly unsatisfying experience, I must add that Vatsal and Sharman had wayyyyy more chemistry than either of them had with Yuvika. It's a shame this movie couldn't be explicitly gay, because now that would have been truly trailblazing and entertaining. Sigh. Another one on the list of "could have, SHOULD have been gay, but heteronormativity ruined everything". RIP.
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