Onir's "Sorry Bhai!" arrived and left hardly registering a flutter. Ali Abbas Zafar picks up the basic premise, tweaks it a bit, sprinkles with tongue-in-cheek humour, glitters with Katrina & Imran, and finally douses with Yashraj sensibilities to escape the copyright violation - voilà! "Mere Brother Ki Dulhan" fresh from the oven ready for you Sir!
Imran Khan: Effortlessly essays his role and must say that he is getting better with each passing movie.
Katrina: Gets a meaty-pie role which she attempts to pull it off being bashful, flirtatious, demure and coy - all at the same time, mind you. In the nutshell she overacts. Without being ruthless, I should give her credit for pulling off the "Dhunki".
Ali Zafar: "Tere Bin Laden" he was promising. Here he was on a hamming spree that would give Shahrukh a stiff competition. Badshah Khan hold your horses please.
Comedy is fairly OK though there was immense scope to better it. Wedding subject brought Yashraj a much needed hit ("Band Bajaa Baraat") and therefore spillover in "Mere Brother Ki Dulhan" is obvious. Music is high energy and well promoted though will not hold charts once the movie makes an exit from the cinema halls.
Ali Abbas Zafar is not too bad for a first-timer wielding the megaphone. He needs to polish his story-telling skills.
Commercially it will rake a good business at the box-office considering the promos, Katrina factor and the masala it delivers to the multiplex audience.
Imran Khan: Effortlessly essays his role and must say that he is getting better with each passing movie.
Katrina: Gets a meaty-pie role which she attempts to pull it off being bashful, flirtatious, demure and coy - all at the same time, mind you. In the nutshell she overacts. Without being ruthless, I should give her credit for pulling off the "Dhunki".
Ali Zafar: "Tere Bin Laden" he was promising. Here he was on a hamming spree that would give Shahrukh a stiff competition. Badshah Khan hold your horses please.
Comedy is fairly OK though there was immense scope to better it. Wedding subject brought Yashraj a much needed hit ("Band Bajaa Baraat") and therefore spillover in "Mere Brother Ki Dulhan" is obvious. Music is high energy and well promoted though will not hold charts once the movie makes an exit from the cinema halls.
Ali Abbas Zafar is not too bad for a first-timer wielding the megaphone. He needs to polish his story-telling skills.
Commercially it will rake a good business at the box-office considering the promos, Katrina factor and the masala it delivers to the multiplex audience.