'Patiala House': A regrettable film!
Rating: 1.5/5 Patiala House is anticipated as a comeback film for Akshay Kumar, but dejectedly, Khiladi Kumar’s saga of providing tasteless films continues. Instead of worshipping cricket which could have been the heart of this film, Patiala House worships melodrama, a melodrama which is inherently excruciating.
Patiala house is the villa where everyone’s living their life but no one’s living their dreams. Everybody wants to do something unique, but they are not able to do so, as the eldest & most obedient son of the family, Parghat Singh Kahlo (played by Akshay) is not accompanying them by living his very own dream of playing Cricket for England as a pace-bowler. Being an Indian, to play in England team is against the will of family’s leading person, Parghat's father (played by Rishi Kapoor). So it is Parghat's story of how he wins faith of his self-esteemed father.
He is a good chef & a champion action hero but he doesn’t possess any bowling skills. Director shows the Akshay’s ignorance about bowling by employing hazy & unimpressive special effects which show us how in a cake-walk manner, ball directly crashes stumps. Sadly, that’s the weakest point of this movie. Akshay never lives his character; it felt like he was forced to live it. Those who live their characters are Anushka Sharma & Rishi Kapoor, but poor storyline & tattered dialogues restrict them to blossom.
Film tries to radiant father-son relationship, orthodox mentality, individual’s dream & willingness to break-free, with cricket at its background theme. But sorrowfully unlike Udaan, film never succeeds to make its audience cheer for its protagonist. Cricket-matches seemed thoroughly predictable & fake, irrespective of major cricketers like Andrew Symonds & Nasser Hussain participating in it.
Instead of stepping into Patiala House for a bucketful of monotony, witness street cricket in your locality, at least it will have some thrill & joy unlike this one.
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