Amritsar born Akshay Kumar preferred his motherland Punjab to London for the premiere of his home production film Patiala House narrating a story related to sports. The famed Punjabi hospitality flowed, when actors Akshay Kumar and Anushka Sharma landed at a local multiplex to attend a special screening of their new film “Patiala House”. Akshay, who has done around 120 movies, claimed that Patiala House was his best movie as he had done all that he wanted to do as an artiste.
‘This movie is about Punjabis love for sports and I hope that like my earlier movies, it would also create a new record at the box office,’ said Akshay, who came from Dubai for the premiere of this movie. Akshay, who had decided it long back to hold a special screening of the movie in Patiala, said, ‘People often talk about Patiala peg.
Patiala House is the best work director Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar have done recently. It is an old-fashioned Hindi movie with big drama, solid dialogue-baazi and moments that are genuinely moving and rousing.
Akshay as Gattu, a forlorn man who has watched his dreams die, is effectively restrained and refreshingly sincere. But all of this is servicing a story that is so silly and strained that it’s hard to get swept up in the histrionics.
Each one has ambitions to be something suitably different – chef, filmmaker, rapper – but each one stays quiet until the fiery Simran, played by a hyper Anushka Sharma, prods Gattu and eventually the family into rebellion.
Advani who co-wrote the screenplay with Anvita Dutt, works hard to invest plausibility and emotional heft into the tale. But the plot just gets more and more far-fetched.
THREE STARS to Patiala House.
