Malamaal Weekly by Priyadarshan

Category: Hindi

Yes, the day has come that I even watch a lot of hindi films, the truth is this movie is genuinely funny. Set in rural India where a village affected by years of poverty and poor crops. After giving it all up to a cruel LandLady (!) a lottery ticket seems to be their claim to riches. The only catch? The winner of the contest, a member of their village ends up dead. How they deal with this while also slowly having their humanity removed due to the greed of money forms the crux of the story.

Paresh Rawal, puts in another performance that reminds us all of Hera Pheri, while Om Puri is pretty stellar. The rest of the cast includes the regulars like Shakti Kapoor, Ritesh Deshmukh, Asrani and a host of others.

Recommendation level: 2/5 - The movie is definitely funny and a must check out, even though it's a little too long in places with crappy sub plots it's still over all funny than the average comedy you see these days which is littered with crass humour. The only problem with the movie is, it doesn't stand out and while I write this review I can't remember any funny moments aside from Baje's hair.