Mere Baap Pehle Aap

I’ve seen some pretty bad films recently but Mere Baap Pehle Aap has to be up there amongst one of the worst. I fancied watching a comedy and flicked through a load of dvd’s I had bought the last time I went on holiday. Mere Baap had a strong comic cast of Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav and Archana Puran Singh so I thought I’d give it a whirl. Boy do I wish I hadn’t bothered!

Have you heard me use the phrase “the story was wafer thin” before? Well this film is the bench mark for this film. The story line is so thin even Posh Spice would be jealous! In fact you could say the film has two very short (and boring) stories sloppily put together to make a feature length crap-fest. Part one of the story follows Akshay Khanna as he tries to discover the identity of the girl that has been stalking him for the past few days, Rose played by that annoying girl from Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. Eventually the two meet and become lovers. The second half of the film then shifts gears, the two lovers now try and hook up Paresh with his long lost lover from years gone by.

Why someone of Paresh Rawal’s calibre would do a film like this, is beyond me. On the other hand, Akshaye deserves to be in a shit film like this, because apart from his turns in Humraaz, Race and Dil Chaata Hain (none of which were single hero films) he’s not really done a lot. Even the highly over-rated Taal didn’t do much to make me like this guy. Akshaye Khanna is rubbish and so is this film. Avoid this one like the plague!

1 out of 5