It’s an easily watchable film with much to smile about. Pity it could’ve been so much more fun.

‘Ladies vs Ricky Bahl’ proves that old adage : newness has a habit of wearing off.

A very predictable con-versus-con film can be made enjoyable, but it needs to be breezy and engaging. We need to want to take sides and we need to care about the twists, and by the time Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl winds down in extremely simplistic fashion, we just don’t care anymore. If this were a better-made film, we might have been justifiably outraged by the lame sexism meted out at the climax, but for now yawning seems reaction enough.

The film loses out on the great chemistry we saw between him and Anushka in Band Baaja Baaraat, especially towards the end.

This movie will find its audience with the teenagers.