The humour is more that slapstick - it is a slap on your intelligence, and you cannot help but wonder what the writers were thinking of when they named the holy man's sexy (!!!) assistants Hard Drive and Pen Drive. The dialogues bring to mind the movies of the 1990s, specifically the ones in which Shakti Kapoor used to lisp and spout complete rubbish. One is never quite sure where the screenplay is leading you, because predictable it is not - it borders on the ridiculous, and could have been a great ride, if only the writing were more intelligent. To justify the loudness in characters and plot points, the setting is a Punjabi environment, of course (since Punjabis are naturally loud and make no sense, as far as the makers are concerned - or maybe they just thought that would be the only community that would not complain). Why else would they feel the need to introduce OTT characters like Phussy and Sexy Daas (Sanjay Mishra)? The makers insist it is a romantic comedy, but the writers may more likely have been aiming to make it a satire on a romance. That is all there is to the story, really. Lucky immediately finds solace in the arms of Kammo, and he is not certain where his life is going, till he discovers that Lakshmi may not, in fact, be dead. Lucky is stuck in a limbo, and does not react till an accident leads him to believe that Lakshmi has perished. So he is content being married to somebody else - the very friendly and simple Lakshmi (Kulraj Randhawa), the exact opposite of his girlfriend (thus making it very clear that hot women like Kammo cannot be the girl next door, obviously). He is in love with the hot Kammo (Shraddha Das), but for reasons best known to himself cannot garner the courage to marry her. In Lucky Kabootar, a young (?) man named Lucky (Eijaz Khan) has a problem. We may embrace it and not complain, or we may reject it, and have no cause to complain anyway.

It is a free country, after all, and if one wants to give in to his or her inner child by imposing on us a disastrous audio-visual, it is that person's prerogative. So what is wrong with the movie? Nothing much, really, except that it makes absolutely no sense to watch it. One such genre is the plotless-OTT-wannabe-comedy-definite-flop-with-failed-and-inexpensive-actors-pretending-to-recreate-realism genre - the category that Lucky Kabootar falls in. This is a result of the very high levels of optimism that exist in the Hindi film industry ?' if you have money and a few contacts, you can make a movie, and create your own genre. Ndian cinema does not lack in genres, and the variety in sub-genres can blow your mind.

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