Crossover Love Story of Cliches
Namaste Wahala
Solid: Ruslaan Mumtaz, Ini Dima-Okojie, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Joke Silva, Sujata Sehgal, Ibrahim Suleiman, Hamisha Daryani Ahuja
Course: Hamisha Daryani Ahuja
We aren’t in a Bollywood film, Indian boy tells Nigerian lady. For his or her sake you would like they have been, their love story could be much more thrilling.
Namaste Wahala harks again to the best way Bollywood would not make love tales anymore. You have got a boy and a woman in love. You have got a fuming father or mother on both facet who doesn’t approve of the match. Throw in some ‘thanda naach-gaana’, drained rom-com, zero chemistry plus random melodrama, and what you get is 106 minutes of poorly cooked masala potboiler that is too amateurish to regale.
For the file, the movie is an Indo-Nigerian try. So, the Bollywood-Nollywood crossover mush is of course pitched as a USP. All of it leads to a large number.
Author-director Hamisha Daryani Ahuja casts Bollywood actor Ruslaan Mumtaz as Raj, an funding banker in Lagos, Nigeria. He bumps into social employee Didi (Nollywood actress Ini Dima-Okojie) on the seaside throughout an early morning jog, and it’s love at first sight for each.
One love music later, it’s time for Didi to introduce Raj to her dad and mom. In fact, Didi’s father (Richard Mofe-Damijo) has a pleasant Nigerian boy (Ibrahim Suleiman) tucked away for her in his workplace. He’s about to unleash the classic Amrish Puri model of rage as Raj goes for the great outdated ‘paye lagoo’ drill.
Didi has related destiny in retailer when Raj’s very Punjabi mamma (Sujata Segal) comes calling. She is a fullblown Kirron Kher parody, grumbling over how skinny Raj has change into dwelling alone, asserting that she’ll feed him “good butter rooster” so he’ll change into “good and fats” once more. Her retort, as Didi tries to fall comically at her toes on their first assembly, is meant so as to add to the comedy — she asks Raj if Didi can put together chhole bhature.
At occasions, a nasty formulation movie turns into inadvertently humorous for the very cliches it tries to hawk. The issue with Namaste Wahala is even cliche-ridden unhealthy formulation movies within the Bollywood rom-com style went previous expiry date fairly a while in the past.
For the sake of authenticity, writer-director Ahuja maintains a mixture of English, Hindi and native Nigerian lingo. You sense an absence of coherence within the general temper the dialogues attempt to set up, simply because the screen-writing (Diche Enuwa and Temitope Bolade-Akinbode) struggles to craft participating storytelling. This, in flip, impacts the performances because the forged strives to recover from poorly-penned roles.
Namaste Wahala broadly interprets to ‘Good day bother’. For the sake of an fascinating watch, we want we might spot a speck of bother someplace on this story.
Score: 2/5
