HOUSEFULL MOVIE Review POST HERE 1.5 Stars Updated - Page 7

I felt that the publicity was also not up to the mark...they were very low onit....Deepika and Akki went only onece together..rest it was LAra and Ritesh,,,

Good God, I came across the prints online and decided to watch the last 15 mins of the movie since its finals time soon and no one has the time or patience to sit through Akki comedies...

And omg... laughing gas? Like wtf... People are standing there laughing and the ubberly melodramatic ending... And it wasn't even funny...

I can't judge the entire movie based on the last 15 minutes, but it reminded me of SIK and Welcome too much to actually watch the entire movie...

just finished watching it and i think it's super bakwas movie after reading review i thout it would be nice but omg it's awful i would rate it 1/5⭐️
Edited by PCRocks - 13 years ago

Housefull: A Prada parrot and a monkey that slaps
Kaveree Bamzai
New Delhi, April 30, 2010

Housefull
Director: Sajid Khan
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta
Rating: 2/5

A monkey who slaps. A parrot named is Prada. A tiger, also named Prada. This is Sajid Khan's strange universe where gay jokes abound, wife swapping makes for humour, and innuendo is rife. Where the language is coarse and the humour in-your-face. Where Gucci bags, Cartier watches and Victoria Secret underwear pepper the conversation. And where characters slip as easily from London to Puglia, from casinos to nightclubs in the blink of eye. Where girls inherit 500 million pounds and boys happily spend it.

And where yes, Riteish Deshmukh has to do at least one scene where he pretends to be gay (actually this film has more than one).

For director Sajid Khan, an otherwise intelligent individual, three women rising out of the water wearing itsy bitsy bikinis may be ultimate heaven, but there's only so much the physical can do for you. What can you say for a movie where Arjun Rampal is the most distinguished cast member, making former superstar Akhsay Kumar look like an approximation of the monkey he slaps? Not much except wonder how Akshay Kumar is planning his career. Is it his intent to antagonize each and every right thinking member of the audience? Insult blacks (there's a black baby he is supposed to have adopted)? Laugh at gay men? Joke about every nationality other than Indian?

Yes, he looks good (though I have to say that his teeth urgently require some work). But as loser Arush who's been down on his luck since the day he was born, he brings neither freshness nor excitement to a role he can do in his sleep-and unfortunately here does.

The girls, Deepika Padukone as Sandy (not Sa-a-a-ndee, she tells Arush again and again), Lara Dutta (who wears all the bikinis left over from the Blue shoot) and Jiah Khan (who transforms from Bharatiya nari to Western wow in minutes), are easy on the eye but get underfoot of the boys who clearly have a thing going for each other. Deshmukh is beginning to look increasingly androgynous on screen. Is that deliberate or accidental? Rampal keeps a stiff upper lip through the proceedings, as well he should, considering he's playing a major in India's "military intelligence" about to receive a medal for bravery from the Queen (of England, that is). And considering he's now a National Award winning actor.

Boman Irani and Lillete Dubey have a possible relationship going which Sajid Khan refuses to elaborate upon. More fool him. The two, as Mr Patel and Ms Sulekha Bano, bring the house down. Malaika Arora Khan has a speaking part as Akshay's two minute girlfriend, which is a pity, because she reveals bad teeth while speaking (which is a relief, given that every other part of her body is perfect).
There are some fun lines in it, such as sharam, laaj, ya gehna, in teeno mein se kuch nahin pehna.; and yes, Khan did get the fake Queen to say Jai Maharashtra, but there are a few things that really need to be done:

1. Lara Dutta needs to stop wearing lingerie, passing it off as a dress.

2. Akshay Kumar needs to learn how to read and then learn how to read scripts, not merely proposals.

3. Deepika Padukone needs to stop channeling her inner Hema Malini. She needs to come to life and start acting. Flashing one's dimples is not enough.

4. Riteish Deshmukh has to stop pretending to be gay. People might take him seriously.

5. Sajid Khan has to try to make films which at least match his spontaneous witticisms.

6. Sajid Nadiadwala has to stop trying to shoot every film in exotic locations, varying from Macau to Puglia, hoping that it will be enough to distract viewers.

7. Malaika Arora Khan has to desist from doing speaking parts.

8. Bollywood has to stop making fun of Africans. The continent will rise in revolt.

9. Chunky Pandey has to stop doing faux accents, even if it is Italian.

10. Randhir Kapoor doesn't have to appear with a glass in every scene just because he is, you know, a Kapoor from a "khata-peeta ghar".

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Edited by Calvin_Klein - 13 years ago

The gay & racist jokes are lame and it's for every movie - that's not funny at all...It may lead to unecessary diplomatic tensions (especially the racist jokes)..... I def won't watch the movie...

I wanted to watch this movie only for comedy. But most of the people are saying even comedy is repeated and boring. Not going to waste my time! now waiting for kites.

It's not making fun of the gays. In the movie, Boman keeps thinking that aki and reitsh are gay because he saw them coming out of bathroom together which was the funniest scenes to me.

I'm against racial discrimination. In the movie there wasn't any of racial bashing.
Lara's character in the movie plays a girl who her father won't even visit her or even call her back. She loves her dad and wants her dad to be part of her life. He wanted her to be marry a rich guy but she refused that guy he chose for her. Lara calls her dad and tells him lies of her getting married to a rich guy and have a huge house. But he don't call her back. So Sandy(deepika's character) tells her that she should tell her dad that she has a baby and he'll come running to her. Which was the case, he went there. He wanted to see his grand baby. Sandy was holding a baby and boman was saying "Let me see my grand baby" he saw the baby was black. He thought she gave birth to the child, he didn't know that she adopted a child. But it was funny when Aki did the african dance...lol I have so many friends who are from Africa and they love Aki
Edited by Terenaina - 13 years ago

i watched the movie and i gaev to say id ont like comedy  moviess..

As it is I was not going to watch this movie, thought I will catch it on DVD.

Given that they have pulled crude racist jokes I'm now going to boycott the movie on DVD as well.

Sorry there are no excuses for racist jokes.

When Indians can stand up for the attacks on Indian students in Australia why is that the majority of them seem to enjoy jokes on people who have a darker skin tone than us?

Disgusting!!!

PS- I request other members who feel as much disgusted as me to tweet Sajid and tell him that such jokes are just not funny.

watched Housefull yesterday.Blooper:Boman Irani conveniently forgets he has a grandson,after RamRahulRohanRaj,the African baby(who Boman thinks is his "pota") is handed over to his mother.didnt he ever wonder why his pota doesnt make a reappearance?