To call it slapstick would be an insult to the audience’s sensibilities because the jokes are stale and the situations humourless.
The real outrage here is how can someone make a story with Santa-Banta, the epitome of two-liners, such a lacklustre affair?

This is a film that has no saving graces at all: not worth wasting time or money on, even if you happen to be a diehard Boman Irani fan.

Statutory warning : If you watch this film, the joke is on you.

There’s a reason this review is this short. This is strictly avoidable fare!

Recovering from the mind-numbing assault of Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 and Mastizaade was hard enough, now audiences have to deal with yet another deadly blow in Santa Banta.

Santa Banta is a complete waste of time. Unless you want to go to a theater and fall asleep, avoid this one!

For what is touted as a comedy movie, this one is outrageously unfunny. In fact, I don’t remember a single second when I even as much as half smiled through this painful ordeal.

The comic world of Santa Banta Pvt Ltd is suffused in an exasperating chaos. You want to be amused. You wait for punchlines. There is not one gag here that would evoke even a mild laughter in the audience. But if you appreciate some very accomplished comic actors trying to make sense of a plot that couldn’t have made sense even to those who wrote it, this is your film.

Capitalising on the iconic Sikh characters that caustic columnist and writer Khushwant Singh celebrated in his joke books, this is a cinematic blot that debunks that famous detergent slogan ‘daag ache hain’.