Movie Review: Hello Darling – Cheap and Disinteresting

Posted by admin on Aug 28th, 2010 | 0 comments

Hello Darling is a sad attempt at comedy. In a garb to show women power, there is plenty of skin show, obscenity galore and a lot of not-so-funny jokes on bodily functions. The uninspired chick flick is a remake of the Hollywood satire ‘Nine to Five’ but this one is not even 25 percent as good as the original one. In fact, there was a Tamil movie called ‘Magalir Mattum’ made in 1994 which was far better. This should definitely jar your brain cells but if you insist, here goes the lame story

Story of Hello Darling: There are three women, with different personalities (read get-ups). Candy(Celina Jailtey) is a tart-type personal assistant, Mansi(Gul Panag) is the corporate lady with middle class values and Satvati (Isha Koppikar) is a new bite: all three are angry with their lecherous, lying, egoistical, sexist boss Hardik(Javed Jaffery). The trio decides to hatch a plan to teach Hardik a lesson, take over the company and show women power to the world. While doing all this, they take a lot of stupid decisions which are an excuse for the poor acting of the three girls in the film. Not that the so-called actions are interesting anyway. Thrown in for a bad measure is the romantic sub-plot with Chunkey Pandey, the rock-star. Boy!

What works for Hello Darling: Gul Panag is passably good in some scenes but in others she has the ‘what I am doing in this one’ expression plastered on her face.

What does not work for Hello Darling: Almost everything! The cast seems to have a collective malaise called bad acting. The music by Pritam is disappointing. As far as the script and dialogues are concerned, the lesser said, the better.

Conclusion: Stay away from Hello Darling and if you fancy skin show, watch some B-grade movie that stands up to the challenge.

Rating: * Poor