Hungama In Dubai - An agonising experience

Unfortunately, there is an audience out there for Hungama In Dubai (HID). It is comprised primarily of  those who had seen The Angrez and Hyderabad Nawabs, who wax nostalgic about the “Hyderabadi humor and lifestyle” and also those curious types who have heard of those two films and have obviously missed it. This isn’t a very good movie, but it has the virtue (?) of being faithful to its three leading actors so, if you’re their fan, the movie will be, at best, a fix, and, at worst, a curiosity.

The movie drives not so silly premise into the ground, primarily with a weak script and uneven direction. The appeal of the film is awfully limited…it’s about how two guys con DC Srivatsav into making a movie in Dubai, strip him of his riches, and from here the film seems to sidestep plot and instead focuses the next hour on putting song and dance and other formula stuff in positions designed to implement as much clichéd physical humor as possible. And not much more. Starved for a laugh, the film drags on until finally the predictable life lesson is taught. Hungama In Dubai is not a complete misfire, but it’s close.

The actors have no trouble essaying their roles but it’s pathetic to see a talented Srivatsava being reduced into puppet and the remaining two Masti Ali and Aziz act like artificial sweeteners in a diabetic chai. The fact that we are facing a dearth of just not good looking but heroines who can’t act for life, in Hyderabad is evident in this film. If babbling unintelligible lines and moving around in underwear, mimicking Rajesh Khanna and Shah Rukh Khan is humour then this movie doesn’t fall into that genre we call Comedy. Wait for a few weeks, you might as well rent it from a video store when you have nothing else to do.