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Playing relentlessly to the gallery

ROUTINE STUFF: Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in Namastey London

Namastey London (Hindi)

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif

Director: Vipul Shah

HERE COMES a Hindi film in Punjabi, a film that is supposed to be laced with all elements of the culture of the land: we have the mandatory bhangra sequence, women in heaps of jewellery, men with muscles.

Then there is doodh, dahi and makhan. Add to that pre-marriage banter to go with Akshay Kumar's Punjab da puttar claims and you have a film that plays unabashedly, relentlessly to the gallery. The film reduces Punjabis to a homogenous community with little space for any extra strand. However, that is a thought, which won't even strike director Vipul Shah who would probably laugh all the way to the bank with this concoction of undying love and the unparalleled supremacy of Indian culture.

He has a heroine, Katrina Kaif replete with all the perceived ills of the girls born and brought up in the U.K. So, she drinks vodka, wears minis, dances in discotheques, quarrels with parents, and wants to run away from any mention of an arranged marriage with an Indian guy. Akshay Kumar is a Punjabi boy from India. He finds his match in the visiting NRI girl, Katrina, who has other priorities. How she realises his goodness, her mistakes and of the uplifting Indian culture that makes the storyline get momentum due to some witty, and corny one-liners.

Ziya Us Salam

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