Mere Baap Pehle Aap

The movie is far too long, and with no real legs (plot) to stand on, it straddles your mind like a colossal headache. There should be a law to bar Genelia from 'acting'. The film is riddled with clichéd situations and the plot itself meanders from one dead end to another. Songs are passable at the best, irritating most of the times. Characters played by Rajpal Yadav, Shobana and Naseerudin are an insult to these talented actors.

Dialogues are not as bad as the rest of the movie. In fact, at times they carry the movie forward. Akshay does a decent enough job, mainly due to his histrionic skills and direction from Priyadarshan.

Only saving grace is Paresh Rawal. As the elderly dad and then as the 'young' lad, he brings out his range of skills.

Is (was) this the death of Priyadarshan's comedy?

It was not exactly the total failure of Priyadarshan, but at least a part of it. We went to see it because the parts of this movie which is usually shown as a trailer in different channels in TV are hilarious and are definitely the best parts of it. Otherways, it is one of those flicks which runs for long without any reason and without any strong storyline behind it too. The movie started very well, continued till 1 hr and couple of minutes with Priyadarshan's true sense of creating a great humor flick, but suddenly it tried to get down from track and making a mess of it before the long waited "Intermission".

In the second half, the story keeps on crawling with little space for humor in it, and that's where it fails. Certainly, then it felt like wasting too much for trivial things, not exactly related to the genre of the movie.

We've also expected Rajpal Yadav to be given some more minutes in the movie who is definitely the best comedian/actor of the lot. Akshaye Khanna was good at his role, Genelia D'Souza looked very cute, Paresh Rawal and Om Puri were on their own to save the movie. Finally, I would say my 120 bucks were worth for this show out of 200.

Lastly, as I said, this flick was a bit lengthy where more than once we expected it to finish early. But against all odds and failures, this movie did make us laugh 6 times out of every 10 times and hence my rating goes as 6/10.

if you are going in with preset mind of watching a Priyadarshan comedy then you might not appreciate the film. the performances are good. Om Puri stands out. Akshaye and Paresh are good and share a nice chemistry in father and son relationship. Jeneliya has looked cute and justice to her character( though there was not much for her to do)

if one goes for it with open mind without any presets then he/she would love the flick.

i would recommend do go for it at least once, as there are not many in Hindi cinema which shows father and son relationship and that too in this beautiful manner.

Priyadrashan + Paresh Rawal + Akshay Khanna..........u expect a gr8 time pass and some really funny lines as in the past movies like Hulchul, Hungama etc. But this time Priyan really fails to give a full time pass movie. Although there are some really funny moments (Om Puri as always at best), but those few moments does not make a watchable flick. Story is a typical boolywood masala one so i don't think , i need to write anything on that. About acting part, Akshay is dependable, Paresh goes overhead, Rajpal Yadav is a complete waste, Genzil D'silva, i was not expecting much from her so OK, Om Puri is best.

What I liked about this film is that the comedy is grounded and not over the top and what really worked was the sweet chemistry between Akshaye and Paresh as father son duo.