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Did Nagesh Kukunoor entrust the direction of Bombay to Bangkok to a particularly inept assistant? Or maybe to a spot boy?

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Bombay to Bangkok
Direction: Nagesh kunoor
Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Lena Christensen
Rating: *½
Did Nagesh Kukunoor entrust the direction of Bombay to Bangkok to a particularly inept assistant? Or maybe to a spot boy? Or could it simply be the corrupting influence of big money that has made him do multiple projects at the same time leading to mayhem?

Whatever… Bombay to Bangkok takes Nagesh right back to his very forgettable Bollywood Calling and Rockford days. The fact that he sees fit to use the Aashayein song from Iqbal at one point, only makes his fall from grace more poignant.

For a film supposed to be a rom-com there is no rom(ance) and precious little com(edy). The only comedy that happens is through one of the lesser characters, a don’s son, who meets a psychiatrist and doffing his hat to Mr Freud, blames all his repressed problems on his father.

The protagonist Shankar Singh (Shreyas Talpade) has a role that is thankless. The cook turned thief-on-the-run is clumsily written and though the film has its share of emotional and thrilling moments it never rises above the mundane.

His love interest, masseur-cum-voluntary medical assistant Jasmine (Lena Christensen) is equally half-baked, leading to many moments of intense tedium.

Even the location provides no solace considering that every second Hindi film is now shot in Bangkok.

Romcoms are usually about the journey, the ending being a foregone conclusion. But in Bombay to Bangkok even the journey, whether it is Shankar’s quest, the don’s son’s recovery tactics or the road scenes, is monochromatic with no underlying nuances, no moments of mirth and no situations to empathise with.

Add to that an unattractive leading lady and an actor who tries too hard but can do nothing with the uninspiring material given to him, and you have a product that is, at best, an average watch.

Sad to say but Kukunoor seems to have lost his noor. Here he is plain cuckoo.

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