Bhool Chuk Maaf

Picture this: you are at a stand-up comedy show, you are having fun, the comic is killing it. For his final act, he has set up an elaborate joke and is coming up to the punchline, when - poof - he disappears in a puff of smoke, and in his stead, holding the mic, is your high school teacher who begins delivering a dry civics lesson.

This scenario, more or less, sums up the discombobulating experience of watching Bhool Chuk Maaf, a supposed-to-be comedy that sours into a painful lecture on morality, before ending in a fourth-wall-breaking dialogue by the protagonist reminding us - h....