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The one funny joke...

posted 14 years ago by IheartmyTV
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Hari's overuse of coconut oil in his hair made me giggle because my (Canadian-born) Punjabi boyfriend would use so much in his hair when we first started going out, it'd get in my hair too He's since cut back a little and I started to use it on my skin a bit, too. It smells nice!

But other than that, man, this movie was like a film student project. Amateur camera angles, predictable as hell story, too many Bollywood dream sequences, too long, and too much bad acting. Hari was actually pretty likable and goofy as a character, but he needed to smile and waggle his head about 60% less. He was overall too naive, even for a comedy.

Kal Penn's performance was strongest, but he must've owed the director a favour to be in this cheese-fest. (Paneer-fest?)

[–] LauraCohle 12 years ago

I agree. I only found some of the jokes worth a chuckle because I can relate them to my Punjab boyfriend and the experiences I have seen his friends go through.

This paneer fest (haha) was so bad and amatuerish, even worse than the recent Punjabi comedies like Vicky Doner.

[–] ravi02 9 years ago

There were funny parts - like when the black guys walk by and laugh at these Indian guys talking in hip-hop slang, or when Kal Penn says "Patel, your car lights are on!" and the entire line clears - but yeah, I agree that this film felt very amateurish.

Technical problems aside, the script was unfocused with too many characters, numerous subplots and the pacing was very wonky. The film dragged throughout. There was the also the issue of certain characters built up to have some kind of payoff (the younger brother with identity issues, or the main F.O.B guy's friend helping him get over his F.O.B-ness), then they get tossed aside and there's characters that just appear randomly out of nowhere (like the main F.O.B guy's love interest at the end or the stoner Indian in the music store).

It's interesting to see a pre-Harold and Kumar Kal Penn and witness Desi American college life before the advent of social media, but overall the film was disappointing.