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It is hard to believe that this extremely underwhelming version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream comes from the writer of Dumb Laga Ke Haisha. The characters are half-baked, the performances are silly, and it feels like a waste of a good cast. The original plot of the play requires considerable ingenuity to be rendered well in a modern context. Unfortunately, Sharat hasn't shown any. Not surprised that despite the well-known cast, this film is unheard of. Skip ahead to the writer's later works if you haven't watched this yet.

The plot was threadbare, implausible, and downright lazy- no clues, red herrings, detection, deduction. Not even the usual "here's what happened". Because there was nothing to explain. The casting was atrocious- the woman who was supposed to remind Monk of his angelic wife looked old, unkempt, haggard and definitely not love-at- first-sight material. The thought of Monk being in love with her was impossible to digest. The mother looked more put-together and groomed than her daughter. Her perfectly combed hair wasn't disturbed even in the lukewarm reconciliation scene. And the director was too bored to figure that a woman who had landed two days ago in a city was not likely to have an apartment, much less window boxes filled with her favourite flowers.