We went to watch Toh Baat Pakki to break the mundane routine of our lives but I guess we would have preferred sticking on to the monotony!
An extremely predictive story line with predictive dialogues (in fact, the lady beside me in the movie hall kept rattling out the dialogues before the actors could finish them!) and no flow in the script.
As you must’ve already guessed after watching the promos of the movie, the movie is about Tabu’s quest to find a suitable groom for her younger sister, Uvika Chaudhary. The film is set in Palanpur though there were many song scenes that were shot at Goa and Bombay. Perhaps that’s the reason why the director decided to place Palanpur boards (the yellow railway-station-kinds) at unnecessary places to make the audience believe that it has been shot there. Tabu plays the role of an over-talkative and conniving lady who manages to entice Sharman Joshi, an engineering student to stay at her place as a paying guest with a motive to get her sister married to him. Sharman Joshi seems to have lost his comb during the entire duration of the movie’s shoot or may be the director wanted Sharman to possess the untidy-college student look. Sharman falls in love with Uvika at first sight, who’s only role was to blush and give an unnecessary pout throughout the movie. Yes, she does have a fresh face but I guess either she needs to take serious acting classes or should choose modelling as a career rather than acting. When marriage cards are about to be printed, Tabu comes across a better prospect.
Vatsal, who already has roti, kapda, makaan and gaadi and thus seems the more eligible bachelor. She consequently decides to get her sister married to Vatsal instead. Vatsal’s acting is extremely amateurish and desperately tries to bring out the SRK in his acting style, failing miserably in the attempt. Ayub Khan, Tabu’s husband has no role except leaving for work and coming back home but a role that he plays with much diligence. In fact, the antique car he drives is shown more in the movie than him! The rest of the movie is not worth writing about as it is a total hotch potch. The latter half is basically about Sharman’s attempt to dissuade Himani Shivpuri, Vatsal’s mother to get her son married to Uvika. Sharat Saxena who plays Sharman’s Mamaji, does his role without any hitch but the script could have done well (or rather, equally pathetically) without him too, as could the diamond ring which appeared and disappeared without any consequence to the storyline and the plot. Though Tabu’s acting was fine, it is not going to win her any accolades or awards this year...maybe only if there a category called ‘Best actress in a scheming role’.
The only things worth watching probably are the colorful locales and the outfits of Uvika and Tabu but again in that too, at least two of Tabu’s outfits have been repeated. The sound track too is nothing out of the ordinary with unnecessary songs being placed in the script. Please don’t blame me if you don’t find any flow to this review. After all, the film too didn’t have any flow!