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by a Viagra dart kisses a woman before discovering she is a man, where a sexy divorcee enters a room full of aging Japanese men.
Film: Bachelor Party (Comedy)
Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Arbaaz Khan, Nauheed Cyrusi, Madhuri Bhattacharya, Ninad Kamat, Sharat Saxena
Director: Ishaan Trivedi
Duration: One hour, 56 minutes
Critic's Rating: **
Readers' rating : ***
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"There comes my chilly sauce," says one of them. She lies down on the bed and says, "Hey boys, enjoy your Manchurian." They do.
Get the picture? If not, sample this. The same father-in-law (Sharat Saxena) feeds the hero with plenty of black gram - sabji, salad and kebabs -- hoping the sound-filled act that follows will disgust his daughter. The hero does oblige with what rhymes with go-karting. But the ploy fails because her daughter finds it cute too. Whoever said love stinks.
Bachelor Party then is coarse comedy. The problem is that all the risqué gags notwithstanding, the movie is simply not funny enough. Even the more serious attempts at humour -- the Osama-Bush spoof, for instance - fall flat. One might recall that director Ishaan Trivedi had earlier made 7 1/2 Phere (2005), a sensible but under-rated comedy that sank quietly at the box-office. This time Trivedi stoops but still fails to conquer.
