Admirable film.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

the only thing that kept me awake was cute actress . The plot is little for the hours devoted in showcasing it . some scenes are awkward to watch with family. Yami gautam looks wonderful in all scenes . Characters behave exaggeratedly . no laughing moment other than those shown in its advertisement . nothing seems logical . emotions do not explain the outcome . Some TV serials are far more interesting than this , at least they end sooner. the turn of events is unexplained . Movie is low budget as things happen inside closed spaces .Some scenes are interesting but their presentation does not bring out the inner sarcasm .

One sentence to wrap up the whole film is " A genuine forceful effort to make people laugh (Only possible on Gun Point)". Ali Zafar's 4th Movie (2nd disaster in sequence) is out and finally the fans are disappointed again. The whole plot from start till the end was beyond apprehension. One feels tortured and painful while watching this so called comedy flick. The idea to shoot the movie in one night, one dress and one go is poorly conceived, weakly written, immaturely directed and childishly portrayed. The characters appear in a haphazard manner. The cast was quite limited. The scope remained narrow, dialogs highly unimpressive and acting substandard. The father of the heroine (Yami) is missing, brother fighting with Pakistani neighbor (without any good reason), sister is acting weird (crushing on Ali and at the same loving her husband and the mother is making a joke of her husband while he is missing. Ali Zafar should quit movies immediately and concentrate on his music. Acting is probably out of his league. Yami Gupta was not seen as fresh as she was (I mean it is an achievement to shoot the complete movie in only one dress without any definite reason). Kirron Kher was OK but Anupam Kher was not seen at all in the movie (invisible character) The idea of India Pakistan tussle among a love couple surely would have achieved a great success and a nice movie if conceived and directed with some sense. Such ventures only add frustration to the audience and adds another disappointment to the flop charts numbers in the Bollywood. I do not recommend this movie to watch even when you don't have anything to watch. A failure with two thumbs down !!!

Because it chiefly talks about the poor international relationship between Pakistan & India. It makes fun of it; in every sequence, the lead couple debate as to why India & Pakistan is better in their own way. The comedy genre was lost somewhere in the middle.Ali Zafar should just stop appearing in films; he is a good musician, why not stay as is? Yami Gautami's second stint in Bollywood is below average. But this is not where the film goes wrong. The lead actresses's family is a weird lot, having a prejudice for everything not Punjabi.When thespians like Kirron & Anupam Kher act so badly, portraying characters that are not only half-baked but also illogical, you should get a fair idea where the film is moving. Then you have another hot- doll, which seems to be one the makers' daughter: flashing her figure all over the frame, flirting with her on-screen sister's fiancé simultaneously taking care of her over-smart child.The father of the family is missing. Instead of being serious and and trying to find him, you have the wife making fun of her spouse's habits, the daughter drunk-dancing on top of a table, the son getting in a fight with Pakistanis and then befriending them, etc..No script, poor direction, spontaneous dialogs, useless songs, no chemistry, poor editing and a very bad screenplay. The whole premise is so far from logic, I would've barfed if I would have stayed a minute longer in the theater. Who makes such movies? And I hear the producers of A Wednesday & Special Chabbis came together for this one. Well, terrible. Few humorous scenes made me chuckle 2-3 times, but that's it.BOTTOM LINE: Never have I seen such an idiotic movie with no single factor to consider that after it got over, I looked at my partner and our expressions matched perfectly: that of disgust.

Picture this. The daughter of a family has a secret boyfriend whom she's about to introduce to the family. No big deal, right? But what if she is an Indian and he's a Pakistani? Picking on this pert premise screenwriter Neeraj Pandey does a special 69 on cross-border politics. Borderline tensions are defused to the point until we see just the ludicrous futility of cultural bickering. It's a delicious idea to build a plot around. Pandey derives inspiration from a Spanish film "Seres Queridos", in which the conflict between the Palestinian boy and his girlfriend's Jewish family was served in a feisty feast of farcical episodes, all meant to draw humour from the dysfunctional family's dysfunctionalism. In the Hindi adaptation Total Siyapaa, the Pakistani boy is utterly and delectably lost in his girlfriend's Punjabi home in London. Director Eeshwar Niwas, who had earlier adapted the ransom caper "Ruthless People" in a reasonably watchable film "Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega", uses London's nightscape as a beguiling backdrop to the Punjabi family's bickering. Ironically, the plot loses its liberal air once out on the streets. Anupam Kher's tryst with a British hooker is sadly unanchored. It's one evening in the family's history. The script brings out the eccentric characters and their whimsical ways with the kind of pleasure that a housewife experiences while serving up her husband's favourite dishes although she may not be too good at the cooking. A lot of the humour simply sags in soggy lumps. There is a distinctly 'European' flavour and fervour to the unravelling of the comic mode in the dysfunctional family's life. Ali Zafar as the bewildered Pakistani boyfriend and Kirron Kher as his scattered mother-in-law- to-be project a prowling predatoriness to their scenes together. They are a delight to watch when thrown together. I really wish there was more of Kirron Kher and Ali Zafar in the plot. The meat of the matter lies in the mater's time on screen with her to be 'damaad' (son-in-law). Yami Gautam as the giggly prim girlfriend is a sketchily written mediocre character with no dips and curves. I New-find Sara Khan as Yami's sister comes across as a far more seductive character. The role is tantalising and Sara plays with guts and vivacity the near-divorced single mother with a restless foot under the dining table. And for my money, Sara's tabletop dance with the distinctly diffident Ali is the film's highlight. Sadly by the time Sara's sexy jig comes along, the plot meanders in search of a combustive climax. The strenuous effort to Indianise a Spanish comedy begins to take its toll on the narrative when the dysfunctional family runs out of tricks to rivet us to their wackiness. The film comes to an inglorious halt with one of the character's stumbling home in a dazed condition, much in the same condition as the plot. But there is a lot that goes in its favour. The elegantly done-up cosy and eccentric atmosphere of a London home, for one. David Meadows' cinematography looks at London as home rather than a tourist destination. Sanjoy Chowdhury's background score reminds us that no matter how hard the characters scream, the music needn't get aggressive in support. The cast, as mentioned, largely does well for itself with Ali Zafar, Kirron Kher and Sara Khan leading the pack. Is it enough for two individuals from clashing cultures and countries to be in love? Love can be quite a bitch. "Total Siyapaa" is total madness. An audacious comedy that dares to poke fun at a border issue, the film is stylised and is attentively staged.