Creative Quotient:
Hari Prasad Dhoonda (Zain Khan) lives with his mom and his dad, works for the Defence Forces on a confidential project at a top-secret location. Weirdly, the all-important computer chip about his work is kept in his house - and the bad guys know it too! Some obnoxious relatives, including a whole bunch of kids and teenagers arrive for a short stay and Hari and little cousin Tuk Tuk (Swini Khera) are inadvertently left alone when the rest leave for a vacation.

A don employs two morons (Saurabh Shukla and Vijay Raaz) to steal the chip from Hari’s house but the kids manage to bring them to book before their mothers return.

Technical Expertise:
Move aside, Harry Potter. This is Home Alone more hashed-up than rehashed. Look for gaping holes in the script and you will find craters. The sequences where the brats deal with the crooks do not look half as convincing or funny as in Home Alone. The way the mother tries to return home makes for a tiresome celluloid experience with jarringly asinine add-on characters. The script is moronic and the directors seem to have no clue how to even start making an enjoyable kiddies’ adventure film. After a start like Being Cyrus, we wonder what Mirchi Movies was thinking of when they chose this subject and made this ‘chip’ thriller.

The child artistes are barely likeable, and Swini is insufferably precocious. Hari’s older brother is downright weird. The rest of the cast, especially Jackie, Lilette, Saurabh and Vijay ham to death. And what’s with the music video with undressed bimbettes in a children’s film?