Hulchul

Comedy is serious business, said Jerry Lewis before he did his famous back flip and landed on a much-worn ass. And it is too. It helps if you have the right lines, the right actors and just the right measure of insanity (two large scoops, hold the dribble). It helps if the audience is ready and willing to bust a gut. It helps if you've set a happy precedent. But more than anything else it helps at the end of a long-winded joke, to remember the friggin' punchline.

By the second half of the film Hulchul has no clue what it was trying to accomplish. It starts off with the noblest o....