3 precious hours of your life that you will never get back

Rating: 1/10 (28 October 2014)

I used to be a solid SRK fan until couple of years back but some of his recent movies like Chennai Express and now HNY has made me realize that he cannot be an actor/entertainer anymore. His big lifestyle demands colossal money spinners with unabashed budgets. This means , most of the time no-brain movies which makes absolutely no sense at all and are sometimes downright insulting. Happy New Year is one such movie. Although I did not expect a cult classic from Farah Khan when I went to the theater, I surely did not expect the low standards that the movie stooped into. Its such a low brow, poorly scripted tedious torture of a movie that you would just want to step out and get some fresh air. The clichéd tiring jokes which you might have seen a million times are run through this movie again to evoke laughs. The movie makes fun of epileptic people even going so low as to invent a signature dance move based on Boman Irani's character which is epileptic. There is no respect to women and every thought in this movie is parochial and stereotyped. From calling North Korean dance team 'Chilli Chicken' to a Bar dancer's poor English or the quaint Parsi accent , everything is unapologetically made fun of . People like Sajid and Farah should stick to what they are good at whatever it is and refrain from making movies. I regret wasting 3 torturous hours of my otherwise happy and fun Diwali 2014.