Mere Husband Ki Biwi movie review: Arjun Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar film is a collection of flat scenes and tropes

This is the kind of film that tells you why Bollywood is where it is. You take your stars, and then stuff the film with a supporting cast which works as a buffering collection of one-liners. The guy who does a fair job of delivering punchlines is an actual stand-up comic (Harsh Gujral), who plays the hero’s BFF. He’s called ‘Lajpat Nagar ka langoor’: bro, the film is set in Delhi. Shakti Kapoor’s background sound is his trademark Aaaooo. One of the plot points involves a bump-on-the-head and amnesia. I’m going to stop here, but you get the point.

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Even after staring at empty theatres despite starry presence because the canny public has smelled a rat, no one seems to understand that constructing flicks like they used to in the ’80s and ’90s will not do. It hasn’t done, especially in the last few years.

Finally, in the last few minutes, the film justifies its title. But who’s going to sit through the rest of it? Only your long-suffering film critic.

Mere Husband Ki Biwi movie cast: Arjun Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar, Rakul Preet Singh, Harsh Gujral, Kanwaljit, Dino Morea, Shakti Kapoor, Aditya Seal

Mere Husband Ki Biwi movie director: Mudassar Aziz

Mere Husband Ki Biwi movie rating: 1.5 stars