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Vipul Amrutlal Shah is known for one of the most interesting crime capers to come out of Bollywood Aankhain (2002) and two hilarious and whacky rom-coms Namastey London (2007) and Action Replay (2010). Most of Shah’s films are hugely inspired from foreign movies but he has the art of satisfying his viewers at the end of the day. Shah is back with his new film Namaste London, with a fairly new cast in his camp including Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra. Both the leads were last seen in Arjun Kapoor’s debut film Ishaqzaade. Their chemistry was most talked about thing back in the days. Let’s see what Amrutlal Shah’s direction can bring out from these two performers.

Namaste England – Trailer

The story of Namaste London revolves around two love-birds Param and Jasmeet who easily get married but Jasmeet wants to pursue a career and doesn’t want to stay a housewife for the rest of her life. Jasmeet lives in a conservative family where women are considered as child producing machines (closely mentioned in the film). Jasmeet leaves for England, after marrying Param, but that’s just the beginning; what happens next is what Namaste England is all about. How a husband leaves India in search of his wife and what happens when he finds her in England is what this film offers to its viewers.

Performance wise, hands down Namaste England is the worst film of Arjun Kapoor. Arjun looks disinterested, fatigued and out of sync. It looks like Arjun is having a hard-time in coming out of his earlier characters of Ki & Ka and Half Girlfriend. Patineeti Chopra is awful; she goes overboard in many scenes. Performances of both the leads are unrealistic, over the top and unimpressive. Rest of the cast in the film either performs below average or bad.

Script by Suresh Nair and Ritesh Shah is below average and is in no way similar or close to Namastey London. There’s loads of romance in the film, unneeded drama, illegal journey of an Indian to England and element jealousy stuffed in the film but even then there isn’t anything that manages to keep a viewer entertained or engaged. It’s a letdown that once the same combo gave Namastey London which is nicely penned, had great dialogues with recall value but Namaste England not even a fraction close to that in terms of writing.

Direction by Amrutlal Shah is very weak. There are so many glitches in the screen play and the direction. Namaste England starts to get dragged even in its first half, viewers start to think if it’s turtle paced slow in the first half what will happen next. In the second half it goes totally out of hand with unrealistic storytelling, stuffed characters which are of no use. Overly dramatic and funny scenes which fall flat and don’t make any impact at all. Every scene gets more boring from the previous one.

Music of Namaste England is average; there aren’t any chart-busters in the film, so this proves that songs don’t have a repeat value. Although there are quite a few songs in the film but none is good enough to make a place in one’s playlist. Namastey London had some great songs, wonder why this installment has nothing of that caliber.

Namaste England Movie Review

On the whole, Namaste England is a total waste of time as it doesn’t offer entertainment; plus the performances in the film are also not inspiring at all, music is there but hardly moves its audience, lastly the story and screenplay is plain bad. Do yourself a favor, don’t greet Namaste England