'Housefull 3' review: A lazily written, flat ensemble film, But an Entertainer!!
One of the formulate most often visited by Bollywood comedies is the business of assigning a distinctive quirk to major characters in a story. The writers of Housefull 3 are clearly very enthusiastic about this device since they use it rather generously in their film. And so: Sandy suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, which results in the emergence of his violence-prone, self-destructive alter ego Sundi every time someone utters the word “Indian”. Teddy is congenitally confused by words, for instance saying “ tawaif ” for “wife”. Gangster Urja Nagre (Jackie Shroff) has a penchant for coining acronyms at the drop of a hat, such as ATM for “ Ab tu marega ” and WTF for “Wednesday Thursday Friday”. And the film’s three leading ladies apparently speak such poor English that they fill their Hindi speech with literal translations of popular English phrases. Not counting the insensitivity towards a serious mental disorder, the rest are ruses th...