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Title: Struggles to reach average
Review: 5 Stars? Really? So this is up there with 'The Godfather' and 'Citizen Kane'? Look, I get that this is supposed to be a lighthearted romantic comedy but it was utterly predictable and dull, with a cliched "fish out of water" plot right out of Scriptwriting 101. Sample scene: man tells his boss there is no way he is traveling to India. Want to guess what the next scene will be? The whole film is like this, moving from one predictable plot point to another with obvious jokes so blunt that they could be punctuated with a rimshot on the soundtrack. Josh Hamilton in the lead role doesn't help much as he is too bland to conjure any believable chemistry with Asif Basra.Yes, a lot of the events in the film are the types of things an expat would experience traveling and working in India. But a film needs more than veracity to achieve greatness -- and this film is not great - or even good.
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