Punit (Ajay Devgn), upcoming screenwriter, and his interior designer wife Munmun (Konkona Sen Sharma) live a happy middle-class life in Mumbai with six-year-old son Aayush (Aayush Joshi). Their staid, simple life with its share of real-life problems takes a vertiginous spin when 65-year-old Lambodhar (Paresh Rawal) comes as an elderly visiting relative. Initially they find him a pleasant change despite all his old-fashioned values and eccentricities, but he soon turns unwelcome as he overstays. His kinks, bearable for a few days, become nuisance value and even obnoxious as there seems no end to his stay and he begins to seemingly take the couple and their hospitality and politeness for granted. Soon, Punit and Munmun start thinking of cunning ways of making him go.

Technical Expertise:
A fun premise inspired from one of late ace humorist Sharad Joshi’s story, the film delivers decent entertainment in an age when we are swamped by an alarmingly growing disconnect between the young and not-so-young ‘globally-inclined’ filmmakers favoured by the media and the ground realities of what the pan-Indian audience really wants when they invest time and money in a movie.
Ashwni Dhir’s script lacks the loony charm of his crazy debut film One Two Three but benefits from a good mix of realism (a la Basu Chaterjee) and Hindi film staples like emotions interposed in the right places - and doses. The sentimental touches in the second half merged with Ganpati proving a boon in more than one way to the harangued couple will appeal to audiences who look for everything they are missing in most contemporary Hindi films. The film, however, loses some sheen in the overuse of the old man’s disturbed gastric system as a repeated source of crass humour and in some very stale jokes and one-liners. In One Two Three, a similar crassness was noticed that undid that otherwise zany comedy.

Ajay Devgn has now got the hang of comedy and Paresh Rawal is what he is in so many comic roles - effective, effortless, a shade repetitious but competent. Konkona Sen Sharma is again the Konkona of every film. Satish Kaushik makes a mark as the film director and Master Aayush is a delightful natural. Technically the film is adequate and the music interestingly spoofy, though the bhajan parodied from Beedi jalayale could have been avoided.
Rating:
One star for performances, one for the humour inherent in the plot and one for the resultant appeal of a film that is proud to be what it is - a Hindi movie.