Teen Thay Bhai

Finally managed to catch "teen thay bhai" and am certainly glad I did. Thanks to the "multiplex culture" small budget movies manage to make a big screen presence alongside the mega-budget ones.

The movies is about 3 brothers (as the name suggests!)played by Om Puri, Deepak Dobriyal and Shreyas Talpade. The estranged brothers are brought together by the death of their grandfather. The trio finds out that there is a will left behind their grandfather, dividing the property amongst them. With a tiny "conditions apply" asterisk! The 3 of them have the spend the death anniversary in a desolate bungalow, for no less than 3 years! You can very well imagine what follows next!

Om Puri is brilliant, hands down a fabulous actor and completely fits the bill of the eldest brother Chixie Singh, who is struggling with his garments business and the with the larger issue of getting his daughters married. Deepak Dobriyal plays a quack dentist, whose solution to all dental problems is simple: tooth extraction! But my favorite of the 3 is Shreyal Talpade who plays the youngest brother Fancy Singh. A wannabe actor with a limited quota of luck and brains! All 3 come together for a fantastic comedy.

Very good for a few laughs. Leave-ur-brains-at-home comedy!

Just Go With It

This concept has been done to death. The lame old story...a man falls in love with a good-looking girl, dutifully helped by the assistant, only to realise in the end that all that he was looking for was right in front of him all the time...his assistant. Nothing hatke for sure!

The movie opens on Danny Maccabee's (Adam Sandler)wedding day. Danny overhears his would-be bride confiding to her girlfriends that the real reason she is marrying Danny is because he is a doctor! The wedding is called off, but the wedding ring stays; Danny's twisted logic being it attracts the women. Some 10 years later, the ring is still on the finger. Until one day Danny runs into Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), and realises this is the girl he wants to be with. But first he needs to explain the ring, enter Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston), a single mom and the much needed assistant. Soon Katherine finds herself playing Danny's soon-to-be-divorced wife. One lie leads to another and soon Katherine's children also get involved. And before we know it the entire party finds itself in Hawai, along with Danny's cousin Eddie (Nick Swardson).And then the realisation strikes home! Happily ever after!

Not an award winner, but a cute movie with brilliant chemistry between Jennifer Aniston & Adam Sandler, which makes me wonder; why haven't they been paired earlier?! Adam Sandler is in a unusually restrained avtaar (as compared to his earlier movies)and Jennifer looks fabulous (what does she eat? if she ever does, that is!). The kids are fantastic especially Bailee Madison (am sure we will see a lot of her in the near future).

And yes, did I mention the film also stars Nicole Kidman (when was the last we saw her?)