A decent spin
This is one of the better movies to come out of Bollywood this year.
Sure, these days it's all about (Huh!) 'Glamour', with John Abraham stripping off, Sunny Leone and Ameesha Patel getting plenty of 'exposure' and every charmless hoon with big tattooed arms learning how to scowl and point a gun, so 'Mere Dad Ki Maruti' seems a little 'humble'.
Sure, it's plot is a little thin - it's essentially a remake of "Ferrari Ki Sawaari", minus the endless emotional cues - but it has enough charm and interesting characters to get it over the line.
And it's lucky to have "Charm"; the two main leads, Saqib Saleem as Sameer, and Rhea Chakraborty as some sexy 'Jazzleen', have about as much charm as a brown paper bag. No, actually, I take that back, brown paper bags are innocuous and, at the worst, fade into the background.
Sameer and Jazzleen are about as likeable as expired fish smell, and whenever they are on screen talking about how cool and sexy they...
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