I admit it, I did not want to see 'Hari Puttar – A Comedy of Terrors', and I was dreading it. I asked if we really had to write a review of it at all, I demanded that MovieSum at the very least sponsor the cost of my popcorn if I had to sit through it. Dan agreed to buy me popcorn and I trudged off to see the movie, still grumbling slightly.
However I have to admit that the film was much better than I had expected it to be, at the very least it was not as much of a torture to sit through as some of the other movies I have been asked to watch this year.
A film made for children, 'Hari Puttar' tells the story of Harish Prasad AKA Hari (Zain Khan) a bright young boy who has recently shifted to England with his parents and older brother because of his scientist father's top secret work for the Indian military. Hari's life becomes difficult when his aunt, her husband DK (Jackie Shroff), their children and some other random British teenagers arrive at his house for a holiday. His bedroom is given to a group of girls; Hari is teased by his brother and the other boys and eventually banished to the upstairs attic for a minor mistake. The next morning the entire family is meant to leave for a holiday and in the chaos, Hari and his little cousin Tuk Tuk are forgotten at home. It is then that two bumbling crooks show up intending to steal his father's secret computer chip hidden at home.
This is where the film moves into 'Home Alone' , 'Home Alone 3' & ‘The Pacifier’ territory as Hari sets up traps for them and becomes a hero as his mother desperately tries to reach him. While the film's premise has definitely been borrowed from a combination of Hollywood's children's films, the production values are good and it is reasonably enjoyable to watch. The two young actors playing Hari and Tuk Tuk are cute and do reasonably well in their roles, the villains are ridiculous as they are meant to be, Jackie Shroff barely has any role at all and Sarika is well cast as the worried mother.
The only thing that had me really rolling my eyes was the not so subtle advertisements for a brand of biscuits throughout the movie. Apart from myself a few other older people the cinema was mainly filled with children, who seemed to enjoy it immensely from the laughter that I heard. While the film may lack in originality it is heartening to see something especially created for children.
Final Verdict:This one is strictly for the little ones, take them along and they'll have a ball!
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