Aiyyaa

A Bollywood meets Tamil cinema musical romp about a girl who falls in love with a hunky man after catching his scent.

Even if a screening is sold out, tickets are often available 30 minutes before the start of the film at the box office at each venue.

• Director-Screenwriter Sachin Kundalkar
• Producer Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga
• With Rani Rani Mukherjee, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Nirmiti Sawant
• India 2012
• 148 mins
• Production company Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt Ltd

Bollywood icon Rani Mukherji plays Marathi girl Meenaxi in this delightful Amelie-style comedy. Meenaxi lives with her eccentric family next to a smelly rubbish dump, lost in her dream-like Bollywood fantasy world. She gets a job at an art college where she meets a soul-mate, a buck-toothed Lady GaGa lookalike, and together they go man-hunting. That’s until Meenaxi catches the smell of her dream man, follows the scent and finds a hunky Tamil student (superstar Prithviraj), who she stalks; much to his annoyance. At the same time her barely sane parents are arranging her marriage to a good, sensible boy, who loves Marathi art cinema and rose-planting. As her dream hunk mysteriously disappears, Meenaxi is torn: should she settle for the rose garden? Director Sachin Kundalkar deftly delivers on-the-button gags, and ecstatic song and dance numbers. One not to miss!

Cary Sawhney