Article Updated 05 December, 2005 02:22:00 PM IST   Home Delivery By Prema K. ©2005 Bollyvista.com   In retrospect, director Sujoy Ghosh's 'Jhankar Beats' seems like a flash in the pan success. Mind you, this is no attempt at comparison but 'Home Delivery' does not deliver what it promises. It is a boring first half with a marginally better second half. Now that's not saying much! What exactly is the film about? We are still trying to decipher that! This is no mass appeal film but it will fail to appeal to even the classes or the youth. Sunny (Viveik Oberoi) is a young writer who has established himself as an agony uncle, 'Gyan Guru'. He writes a column for the 'Times of Hindustan'. Sunny is also writing the script for director Karan Johar's next film. But unfortunately this film has no script although it boasts of three script writers. It's Diwali eve and Sunny is extremely busy. Besides evading his boss (Juhi Chawla) and a dinner party at home, he has to meet Karan Johar for a story narration as well as make 'gajar ka halwa' for South Indian superstar Maya (Mahima Chaudhary), the new lust factor in his life. Yeah, we forgot! There is a weird looking P3P (Arif Zakaria) who hounds her. Sunny also has to get his fiancée Jenny (Ayesha Takia) out of the way because Maya and he have a date at his house. Of course, Sunny poses as a bachelor boy, the 'single ready to mingle' sort to her! Suddenly he realizes that there is no food in the house. So he orders his favourite food, Pizza. Michael (Boman Irani) is the delivery man. Now the film starts getting a little interesting. A bit on Michael. He has the knack of working in every place for not more than two days but he is determined to stay on at the Pizza parlour for longer. He is very simple and childlike. Besides delivering the pizza, and making 'gajar ka halwa' for Sunny, he also teaches Sunny a few things about life. Does all this hold your attention? Obviously not! The biggest flaw of the film is that there are far too many characters who have no relevance to the plot. To top it all, there are Bollywood actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh who make 10 second appearances in the film (we wonder why!). The screenplay is bad. It does not move the story ahead at all. Bad dialogues too. Besides, the film looks more like a play with almost everything happening in Sunny's house. There are very few scenes elsewhere. You end up feeling nothing at all for anyone except Michael who touches a chord somewhere deep within. He's the only real memorable character in the film. Vishal-Shekhar's music is lackluster. The rest is better left unsaid. Now for the performances. Viveik Oberoi goes slightly over the top in a few places. Ayesha Takia is okay and is quite natural in some scenes. But she has to do something about her wardrobe. It needs major revamping. We wonder what prompted Mahima Chaudhary to play Maya. Juhi Chawla and Arif Zakaria are wasted. No hopes for this film at the box-office! * (One star) *poor; **average; ***good; ****very good; *****excellent   close   Print this Article http://www.bollyvista.com   http://www.bollyvista.com/article/a/29/5921