Teen Thay Bhai Movie Reviews

The good news is that Bollywood is brimming over with fresh talent as more and more young film makers don the director's hat and try their skills at story telling. Their's is a young vision and a modern sensibility that tries to steer clear of formula and cliche. And even if it looks at formula, it dabbles with it differently, as was evident in Dabangg. Teen Thay Bhai may have been produced by Rakeysh Mehra but it has been directed by first-timer

In a flashback scene at one point, Happy Gill (Deepak Dobriyal) nervously hands his childhood sweetheart Gurleen (Ragini Khanna) a small brown paper bag from a medical store, the connotations are obvious and the anxiety on both characters' faces are evident. And yet what emerges is a toothbrush with a teddy bear shaped into it. It's the innocence of the scene that encapsulates the mood of the film. Teen They Bhai is a clean, honest attempt

The film however lacks consistency and some of the comic situations fail to evoke any humour. While the brothers try to co-exist peacefully in the ramschackled bungalow and almost end up killing each other, the drama holds your interest. But as it moves out into the wilderness, with blondes, dogs, drugs and cops, it loses track.

One of the three brothers in Teen Thay Bhai is a dentist. But at the end of the two-hour ordeal they unleash on you, you need an ENT specialist. The ‘E’ bit because they can’t stop shouting, the ‘T’ bit because you can’t stop cursing and the ‘N’ bit because Om Puri’s Paaji can’t stop farting. Designed on the famous comedy trio The Three Stooges, Teen Thay Bhai is a two-scene skit forcibly stretched to a full-length feature. The result: flatulence and lots of it

One might justifiably wonder, watching the flat and unfunny Teen Thay Bhai, exactly how three highly skilled performers can be coerced into a film this bad. Om Puri, Deepak Dobriyal and Shreyas Talpade are all well-heralded actors of demonstrable talent, their pedigree here nullified by weak lines, farts and a flimsy script. Did they not, you gasp, see just how bad it was? The tragic answer was that they probably did smell the stink. But so starved

Even at his most blink and miss, Om Puri can be a magnet. Teen Thay Bhai is unusual in that it gives this brilliant thesp a full-fledged lead role, which does something equally unusual: sets your teeth on edge. Puri plays the eldest of three brothers. He is perpetually bad-tempered, frown-lines to the fore. His favourite mode of communication is to yell, at the top of his voice, at those in the vicinity. His wife is fed up (because he has no money)

Loud and inert at the same time, Teen Thay Bhai is a film to be shunned simply because of how cruelly it treats three actors we should treasure.

Go only if you don’t mind broad humour which overstates its case at every snowflake. Also, if you like your men being called Happy, Chiksi, and Fancy.

The Three Stooges meet Bheja Fry in this wannabe indie comedy. There are several red flags that come up in the first 20 minutes of the film warning you of what's to follow. First -- a very bad voiceover introducing characters made to rhyme -- Chixcy, Fancy and Happy. Then there's a dead animal joke that's totally unnecessary. To add to the woes, an erratic screenplay that doesn't go anywhere and is as stuck as the central characters

Teen Thay Bhai is a film so bewildering and tonally inconsistent that as you watch, you can only wonder: what were these people smoking? The story, about three estranged brothers who are forced to spend time together because of their grandfather’s will, must have sounded good on paper. But the film careens wildly going from slapstick to stoner comedy to high emotion to a chest-waxing scene that echoes The 40 Year Old Virgin

If ‘Teen Thay Bhai’ was merely slapstick, you’d settle into it after a while. But the film never finds its tone. Apart from a few inspired moments of lunacy, this movie is schizophrenic to say the least, going from spoofy to bizarre to sentimental, and yet remaining consistently dull throughout.

Debutant director Mrighdeep Singh Lamba strains hard to make you laugh – Teen Thay Bhai includes everything from fart jokes to a purposefully loud Ram Leela – but I barely smiled. I’m going with one and a half star.

Hugely disappointing.

Three brothers hop on to bikes, hitching a ride on a highway in Himachal. The biker, who’s given a lift to Shreyas Talpade’s character, it turns out, is a gori (white) girl. It’s amazing! He can’t believe his luck. Right then, imitating the iconic kissing scene from the Alicia Silverstone Aerosmith video, he pulls himself forward, spreads his legs wide open before the biker’s seat, gawks at the woman’s breasts that read ‘Guess’, for her jacket’s brand name.

Have a few questions to ask…The first question is for Mr. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Pray, what prompted you to green-light the screenplay of TEEN THAY BHAI? Okay, I am sure, you got fascinated by a fascinating concept [what an idea, sirji], but didn't you realize that the screenplay was going nowhere, on paper itself? The second question is for the three actors - Deepak Dobriyal, Shreyas Talpade and Mr. Om Puri specifically, whom I hold in very high esteem

Brothers battling over ancestral property – has been a familiar fodder for masala movies since ages. But when Rakeysh Mehra produces a comedy on the same formula, you expect it to be a smart satire. Sadly what you get is a slapstick! So you have three brothers who can't stand the sight of each other but still have to coexist for a couple of days, every year to subsequently acquire their ancestral assets, as per their grandpa's will. The eldest brother

TEEN THAY BHAI doesn’t even have teen (three) genuinely funny scenes. Watch it if you want to test your ‘will’ power.

Review by Komal Natha: Business Rating: 0.5 star. What's Good: A couple of songs; a few comic scenes. What's Bad: ...