All Is Well

All is not well with the world that Umesh Shukla takes us into this weekend. The title, presumably inspired (or maybe not) by the song from 3 Idiots, is catchy enough to make you sit up and take notice. However, the film is a comic caper that elicits only yawns, and that makes its title misleading. And even Rishi Kapoor, who can make the dullest screenplay a masterpiece, fails this time.

Inder Bhalla (Abhishek Bachchan) is an aspiring artiste, who has lived in Thailand for years in an effort to make it big. He is grouchy and unpleasant, mostly because he is actually a failure. ....