Cert PG
132 mins
BBFC advice: Contains mild violence and mild bad language
At last! A Punjabi comedy which made me laugh.
In fact, I wasn't the only one. I have just read a review from India, stating: "Even if you lost interest in Punjabi films, owing to a dismal run of flops for quite some time, you sure won't be disappointed with this one".
This prompted me to smile because I have long thought it was my own lack of cultural insight which made me find Punjabi comedies so excruciating.
In all honesty, I held out little hope for Kshitij Chaudhary's movie having seen its cast comprised of the likes of Binnu Dhillon and Jaswinder Balla who have been virtually omnipresent in recent Punjabi pictures.
But here, given a much sharper script, both are able to shine.
Mr & Mrs 420 surrounds the farce of four friends (Dhillon, Babbal Rai, Yuvraj Hans and Jassi Gill) who head off for the city together but need somewhere to live.
However, a landlord (Bhalla) insists that he will only let rooms to married couples.
Thus, Dhillon, whose character is an aspiring actor, and Rai, put on the dresses and make-up and the farce begins.
This revolves around the landlord's love for a woman who is actually a man and the lads' love-lives which are complicated by the introduction of the fictional wives.
It is fair to say that audience members don't have to be nuclear scientists to follow the plot and it's a bit of a throwback to old-fashioned 1970s farces.
But it prompted me to laugh out loud several times and others in the audience at Wolverhampton Cineworld were guffawing so loudly I thought they might expire.
Laughs: four out loud and several chuckles
Jumps: none
Vomit: yes
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 6.5/10