Critics rating : 0 Stars

Cast : Kader Khan, Om Puri, Sanjay Mishra, Raajpal Yadav, Razak Khan, Amita Nangia, Vijay Patkar, Chitrashi Rawat

Direction : Fauzia Arshi . 

Produced : Santosh Bhartiya, Fauzia Arshi 

Written : Santosh Bhartiya.

Genre : Comedy.

Most good films are a labour of love. You can see the attention to detail and feel a synchronised passion of creating a thing of pride in the crew. It reflects on screen. That is what creates magic on celluloid. And then you have this film.

How this nadir in story-telling got funded and made will remain a mystery. No behind-the-scenes telling of the means will justify the end result.

Harry (Amit J), Inder (Bunty Chopra) and Veeru (Danish Bhat) are the three no-good sons of the wealthy Ishwar Singh Chauhan (Kader Khan), whose fortune they squander away. Collectively, their initials come to HIV, which is a recurrent joke and probably the real reason the patriarch passes away in the beginning instead of their waywardness.

He bequeaths to them a haveli in hilly Husain Garh. The abode is imaginatively named ‘Thandi Haveli’. When the three eager inheritors arrive to either sell or settle, they find that it already has a resident owner. Mirza Kishan Singh Joseph (Om Puri) refuses to vacate.

Advocate Aashiq Ali (Sanjay Mishra) advises them on taking back the property. Harry and Veeru try to woo his daughters as a ploy, only to fall for them. Somewhere there is a parallel track of Inder being a lackey to gangster Teeli bhai (Razak Khan).

The plot goes nowhere and neither do the performances which seem extracted at gun point (and not to good effect). One could say that the jokes fall flat if said jokes existed. The scenes are the graveyard of subtlety.

There are enough factors to churn your mind in today’s world. Let this film not be one of the contributing factors. If you can get past the grammatically incorrect title, you will realise that it is more than just the name of the film. It is an honest state of mind – something that was the cast and crew’s and will become yours if you venture into the hall for this. The pre-emptive heading is waiting to be mocked, much like a less-than-brilliant child being named Sherlock at birth.