Comedy is the most difficult emotion to capture on screen. And it’s equally difficult to make a moviegoer laugh at your antics.Home Delivery had all the trappings to spice up your next two hours.But it faltered big time. Reasons: Inept writing, uninspired direction and over-the-top performances by just about everyone.Home Delivery leaves you frozen. Undeniably, it was amongst the worst fares to hit the marquee last year.Oh, what a tragedy!
It’s the story of one day in the life of Sunny (Vivek Oberoi). Cynical Sunny is a budding scriptwriter who’s penning a film for Karan Johar. He is also a sort of an agony uncle — his column in a leading daily, Times Of Hindustan, is a huge hit.
On the day of Diwali, amid endless hassles, Sunny discovers he has no grub at home. So, he orders a pizza. Enters Michael (Boman Irani), the pizza delivery guy — a happy-go-lucky character who, it seems, can’t keep a job for more than two days. How Mich-ael’s interaction with Sunny changes the latter’s life is what the film is all about.
Woven into this basic plot are other characters — Sunny’s live-in girlfriend (Ayesha Takia) and a South Indian superstar Maya (Mahima Chaudhry), who is also Sunny’s fantasy queen.
It had an interesting plot, but after having watched the film you wonder whether the most important aspect of the film – the script – had been written by a grown up or by a bunch of kindergarten kids.The problem is, due to the lack of a proper direction the story falls flat. Even the characters aren’t well etched out.The situations are so harebrained and ludicrous and the humour so bland that you often wonder whether the director and his team of writer know what it takes to make a humorous film and evoke mirth.The one pertinent question that comes to your mind is, how could director Sujoy okay an apology of a screenplay for the film? Music is functional. The track at the start of the film and the one in the end are tuneful . Cinematography is eye-pleasing. Dialogues are bore.
Ayesha did impress with her performance in SNT, but in this film, she mistakes acting to screaming, shouting . Vivek is so so .Mahima hams as if there is no tomorrow. Boman is the only actor who handles the comic portions without going overboard.
Avoid!!