Second Hand Husband

This movie brings out mixed emotions in me. On the one hand, I do like the fact that Bollywood is tackling non-traditional storylines, in this case: a man and a woman want to get married, but things are complicated by the fact that he is in the process of divorcing his current wife and have to deal with the sorts of issues that come with that.

The problem is that this is a hard subject to make work as a romantic comedy (which is what I presume this movie was). Not to say it isn't possible, but it's hard to make it work. And this movie did not make it work.

The acting was stiff, which is par for the course for this type of film. In addition, neither the roles nor the dialogue were any good. I went into the movie theater coming off a bout of stomach flu, and I'm glad my system was empty, or I think I would have retched in the middle of the movie.

My only consolation was that I went for the first showing, so I only wasted about $6.50 for a matinee ticket as opposed to the usual $15.

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