i walked out of the theatre after getting bored with this bollywood movie called 'phillauri' . phillauri is the name of a village in punjab region of north west india .
the story starts with a young man ( suraj sharma ) coming back to india from his job in canada to get married to his beautiful long term girlfriend ( mehreen pirzada ) . but in canada he has got into a habit of smoking and intaking drugs .
in india he is confronted with a quaint superstition that one might think comes from the dark ages but exists in parts of india---an astrologer declares him to be unlucky for getting married unless he first marries a tree and later marries his girlfriend . so he is married to this tree .
what anybody does not know is the fact that on the tree resides a female ghost ( anushka sharma ) , and his marriage gets solemnised with the ghost . the ghost then comes to stalk him every night ; passes comments on the exposing clothes that his girlfriend wears called her nude .
of course , the ghost has her own past love story of a lover ( diljit dosanjh ) in past life . but by this time i was getting mega irritated with the permanently confused and bored expression on the hero's face . the film has been marketed as a comedy but in the one hour i was in the theatre i hardly laughed once or twice . the proceedings were dull and utterly failed to hold my interest .
the only time i felt like laughing was when the girlfriend's drunkard grandmother ( she starts drinking at 9 in the morning ) joked about her husband screwing her in somebody else's house in her youth , and when her son ( girlfriend's father ) tried to shut her up she claimed that he wouldn't have been born if her husband was not so horny....i then waited for more jokes of this kind but when no more were forthcoming , i walked out....
the story starts with a young man ( suraj sharma ) coming back to india from his job in canada to get married to his beautiful long term girlfriend ( mehreen pirzada ) . but in canada he has got into a habit of smoking and intaking drugs .
in india he is confronted with a quaint superstition that one might think comes from the dark ages but exists in parts of india---an astrologer declares him to be unlucky for getting married unless he first marries a tree and later marries his girlfriend . so he is married to this tree .
what anybody does not know is the fact that on the tree resides a female ghost ( anushka sharma ) , and his marriage gets solemnised with the ghost . the ghost then comes to stalk him every night ; passes comments on the exposing clothes that his girlfriend wears called her nude .
of course , the ghost has her own past love story of a lover ( diljit dosanjh ) in past life . but by this time i was getting mega irritated with the permanently confused and bored expression on the hero's face . the film has been marketed as a comedy but in the one hour i was in the theatre i hardly laughed once or twice . the proceedings were dull and utterly failed to hold my interest .
the only time i felt like laughing was when the girlfriend's drunkard grandmother ( she starts drinking at 9 in the morning ) joked about her husband screwing her in somebody else's house in her youth , and when her son ( girlfriend's father ) tried to shut her up she claimed that he wouldn't have been born if her husband was not so horny....i then waited for more jokes of this kind but when no more were forthcoming , i walked out....