Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost (2003) User Reviews

What idiot wrote the script for this movie?

[AishFan · 2/10 · 7 September 2003]

I thought this movie was absolutely terrible. The whole story revolves around a TV that is brought to some Godforsaken village and is making hooligans out of the people. Ok, I thought it was rather pathetic how the TV is the protagonist of the film. Lara Dutta is just ruining her career, which went off to a decent start with Andaaz, by choosing to act in a film like this. Abhishek just lost a lot of his credibility that he regained with lots of effort in Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon. Hopefully, he'll win it back in Kuch Naa Kaho. Anyone who watches this movie will feel like their intelligence is being insulted. The Saiyaan song is the only good part of the movie.

Big disappointment!!!

[The8thone00 · 4/10 · 9 September 2003]

There were lot of expectations from this film and all went down the drain as every moment of the movie I saw. Expectations reaches sky high because Apoorva Lakhia, assistant director of Lagaan an epic movie would atleast make a good effort for his debut film as a director. This was not true, film was a complete waste of time of its viewers. There was no story, Abhishek was shaky on most of the sequences, he still needs to work on his acting. It wasn't abhishek or Lakhia who ruined the movie. In the whole movie had a weak topic tell a story on supported by a weak screenplay. 80 to 70 percent of the movie was about villagers sitting in front of a tv set and acting like a primates. This is not believable for me because i live in 2003 in a culture where technology is very advanced. Lakhia really tried to give it a lagaan look and even in its songs he tried to give it a Lagaan kind of feel but the maker terribly failed in all aspects of making a film good. I wouldn't say that film wouldn't be better if somebody else was directing or if Vivek Oberoi or Hrithik Roshan was playing abhishek's part because in reality the fault lies in the subject, the story. A 25 minute story subject was dragged and dragged for 3 hours and even as a viewer one can tell that the story teller himself is running oout of stuff to show. In all I thought this was Abhishek's turning point, but it was a big disappointment, in the story as well as in abhishek's acting, even though he shares some expressions with his dad but his dad atleast makes it believable and enjoyable. My only recommendation for this movie is Please don't watch it!!!

It was funny but I can understand how people would find it demeaning!

[Sherazade · 8/10 · 26 March 2006]

Abhishek Bachchan plays a very modern Indian guy who after making it big in the city returns to his village to care for his ailing grandfather as well as to return to his roots. Along the way he meets a very sexy supposed wild river maiden (played by Lara Dutta) with whom he is instantly smitten and wants to find out more about. The main story is about him falling for Lara's character and finding out later that she is the younger sister of the man who doesn't want him back in town. This main story is then plastered against tons of common skits associated with people who live in rural areas, such as seeing a telly for the first time and reacting to the shows that come up on the telly. Of course, a film like this will not be complete without somebody doing something wrong to Abhi's grandfather to spark such a range in him that it seems to have been left over by his father Amitabh Bachchan's earlier turn in films like Mard, Amar Akbar Anthony and Sholay just to mention a few. It was good entertainment and let's just leave it as that.

Good comedy.

[ikbalali-70805 · 9/10 · 26 August 2022]

It's not an epic, all time blockbuster type, but I'm sure it will entertain you enough.

Just a comedy movie, don't expect much from it. Abhishek has done good job, side characters are great.