It gets the odd chuckle but nothing more than that.

The new kids on the block are sincere and with a better story line surely the director will be able to give us a superior product next time.

A quirky, distasteful title alone does not make a film hit. Production houses like Balaji Motion pictures should have known that. This kind of putrefying titles might gain a bit of curiosity but without the content to match that expectation, there’s no chance of recompense.

There’s a lot of dramatic and comic potential in Punjabi Delhi and Bollywood has been using it to the hilt for a few years now. Band Baaja Baraat, Fukrey, Vicky Donor being just a few examples of how it needs to be done. Kuku Sharma Ki Jhand Ho Gayi, alas, is not one of those films.

Perhaps this film lacked scope from the beginning, but its shortcomings are definitely not a result of less effort. Also, credit to the producers for making sure that every viewer grins at least once-while having to name the film at the ticket window.

Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi has many rough edges, patches of amateurish staging and acting, misguided attempts at humour, and an ear-splitting and disposable Amar Mohile background score, but it is also good-natured, warm-hearted, and finely observed. Its characters seem right at home in the Subhash Nagar, west Delhi, location in which the movie plays out.

Siddharth Gupta and Amit Sial are the only ones you’d remember after you walk out of the theater. And maybe Pallavi Batra for the loud character she plays annoyingly and aptly. None of this enough to make Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Lag Gayi a watchable film.

KMKJHG makes for a decent home video watch. I could definitely check out the shots of Kuku cooking – chopping vegetables and making milkshake – clearly inspired by the opening montage of American TV series Dexter. Else this film holds no promise.

It’s a sweet film. Give it a chance.

KUKU MATHUR KI JHAND HO GAYI is a light entertainer that’s simple-n-sweet, charming and most importantly, entertaining for most parts.

Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi is a jhand film which is better avoided. With a lack of soul and a half baked storyline, the film is a bad mishmash of convoluted screenplay, dull writing and hasty execution. Though 109 minutes helps, the exasperation of having to watch the film surpasses the minuscule joy of it being a relatively short film. Sometimes devil gets the better of me and the concept of being thankless jumps out of the window. Something of the same order happened when I watched a jhand film. I am going with 2/5. Avoid a jhand movie because you aren’t a jhand.

The film ends up being a strictly average, and mostly bland, slice of Delhi life. There’s a great deal of Punajbbi Hindi, but that’s par for the course of this kind of template-y film. For variation, we get Bihari, from a guard and his ‘sari’-loving wife whom he has left behind in Darbhanga, and Kanpur Hindi, from Kuku’s ‘badmaash mama’. Sit.com territory, stretched out to accommodate a film.

Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi is a dull fare and cannot hope to do much at the ticket windows despite some good comedy. Its very low cost is probably its biggest plus point.

Funny situations and scenes with quirky characters provide clean humour but that can’t substitute for the lack of a good, engaging story.
Watch this one only if a ‘little birdie’ tells you to. We mean a ‘Kuku’, alright.