{"id":7,"date":"2011-03-31T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2011\/03\/movie-review-patiala-house-2.html"},"modified":"2021-08-03T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:58:47","slug":"movie-review-patiala-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2011\/03\/movie-review-patiala-house-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review : Patiala House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rating : Above average (3.5\/5)<\/b>
Genre<\/a> : Drama<\/b>
Year<\/a> : 2011<\/a><\/b>
Running time : 1 hour 35 minutes<\/b>
Director<\/a> : Nikhil Advani<\/b>
Cast : Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Hard Kaur, Tinnu Anand<\/b>
Kid rating<\/a> : G<\/b>

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PATIALA HOUSE : MELODRAMA IN LARGE DOSES !<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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An over-bearing patriarch and his over-wrought Punjabi family; put these 2 together with some drama-shama (because they are Punjabi, and Punjabis – they are like that only!) in the same film, situate the film in London and what do you get ? Why, Patiala House ofcourse ! Yes, I kid you not people \u2013 this is one overdone film. They\u2019ve taken the Punjabi-ness and run with it.<\/p>\n

For starters they have Gurtej Kahlon aka Bauji, Rishi Kapoor as a portly patriarch. Bauji is an intrepid and out-spoken man whose word is law in his home and in the community he has built up and aided against British racists. Then there is the salwar-clad long-suffering and very, very patient wife of the patriarch \u2013 doe-eyed Dimple, aging, but as pretty as ever. And then there are the bacchas<\/i> \u2013 sons and daughter, nieces and nephews and daughter-in-laws, all sweltering in the heat of Bauji\u2019s overt Punjabi-ness. The kids can\u2019t assimilate into the British culture around them, nor can they do or speak as they wish. Bauji decides everyone\u2019s fate and that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

Things come to a head when Bauji\u2019s obedient son, Pargat Singh Kahlon aka Gattu (Akshay Kumar), who has long since given up his life\u2019s dream at Bauji\u2019s behest, spies a ray of hope. Phir kya logon<\/i>, \u2013 it\u2019s mutiny time ! It\u2019s covert mutiny ofcourse, it\u2019s all hush-hush \u2013 Bauji hasn\u2019t a clue what his honhaar <\/i>beta is doing. But really, like all Bollywoodian plans, (and you can see it coming a mile away), this one\u2019s going to go awry.<\/p>\n

Yes, yes, yes \u2013 it\u2019s high drama. Kapoor has a thing for the melodramatic and this script and the just as melodramatic dialogues give him all he needs. He milks it to kingdom come. Dimple by comparison, looks subdued and gives her matronly role the whole suffering mother treatment. Akshay Kumar playing the well-behaved son weirded me out. He was fine when he was covertly dancing to bhangra<\/i> rap in the basement, but as seedha-saadha<\/i> Gattu he was just morose. And oh, Ms. I\u2019m-so-thin-I-could-be-one-dimensional Anushka Sharma turns in another sterling performance as the perky Simran.<\/p>\n

Singer Hard Kaur acts. She\u2019s a cousin sis of Gattu\u2019s in the film \u2013 the one who wants to rap but quails at what Bauji will say. Interesting to see that out of her \u201crapper\u201d get-up, and in a simple salwar-kameez, she looked really domesticated. Like she\u2019d be frying samosas any minute. And for all you folks tripping down memory lane, there was a turbaned-up Prem Chopra and a blooming (and ballooning) Soni Razdan, both playng their bit parts quite effectively.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I say it\u2019s overdone, but it was still fun to watch. Direction, script, screenplay all passable. Great songs, some nice thrumming bhangra beats, and some cricket to boot. There\u2019s lots of color and energy and a variety of characters, all with interesting quirks. The only thing that wasn\u2019t developed well was the romance between the lead pair, so yeah, it\u2019s not going to get you weak-kneed or anything. This is a family film, focusing on family ties \u2013 so I doubt that Gattu and Simran were going to get kissy-kissy anyway (they barely say a couple of words to each other, collapsing gratefully into holy matrimony).<\/p>\n

Fairly slick, clean, and wholesome, \u201cPatiala House\u201d is a decent watch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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