Mere Dad Ki Maruti: Go for this joyride

Mere Dad Ki Maruti
Starring: Ram Kapoor, Saqib Saleem, Rhea Chakraborty, Prabal Panjabi, Ravi Kishan
Rated: 6/10
Ram Kapoor is not the main character of this film. But then, neither is anyone else. Yet, this sitcom has a Punjabi charm all its own. There are one-liners aplenty, most of them managing to make you laugh; there is a situation that is more bizarre than bizarre can — that too makes you laugh; there is a girl who takes the cake in bimbettism and there is a boy who, fortunately has a friend with one funny bone too many.
For those who chant Bade Achhey Lagte Hain for Kapoor, well, he does better than most small screen stars who are made to sleep through the movie, giggling nervously at their big screen presence. More often than not, these stars, all good actors in their own right, get sidelined by film directors who ignore their portfolio of work and use them in their movies merely to cash in on their small screen popularity.
In Mere Dad Ki Maruti, Kapoor is given a balanced job to do — a character actor without whom the film would be slimmer than usual (pun unintended).
Another matter though that he screams through his role of a Punjabi gargoil who wants to give a Maruti to his daughter as her wedding gift but has no qualms mixing cheap liquor with branded rum, rum, rum, rum, run oh whiskey.
The film does well on two main counts — one, it is a well-timeframed slapstick comedy, all laughs being compressed into an hour and 40 minutes; two, the Punjabiyat has been hilariously captured and every character makes some or the other contribution to the situation the family is in.
Rhea as Jasleen (read Jazlin) is a tickler. The bebe babe is an apt portrayal of what you can call a queen of bimboism — “Are you love me?” she asks her beau. Don’t know about him, but we certainly did. See it for her and all who follow.
Source: The Sunday Pioneer, 17 March 2013

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