Ms Pulla--> I did not see this movie. But as soon as I read half of your review, I have realized that this movie is heavily inspired by WAKING NED DEVINE. Similary you did not realize that TAXI 9211 is a remake of CHANGING LANES before classifying TAXI as a creative movie.
Maalamaal Weekly is a bizarre enlivening of one of those Tinkle comic stories set in a bucolic background – buffaloes, picturesque poverty, turbaned men in clothes with vibrantly contrasting patches, elementary plots and recycled jokes. The comedy is woefully childish, something you learn within the first frame itself.
Yet the rustic characters, their crude, idiomatic talk, just their perfectly dirty clothes and langotis, the way they sit on their haunches and feed leaves to their goats – all that imagery keeps you hooked for a while. You can almost smell the ....