It's a Wonderful Afterlife Movie Review

It's a Wonderful Afterlife (Hindi)

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4.5/10
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4.0/10

My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Shaun of the Dead meet in this charming comedy romp about an Indian Punjabi mother taking her obsession with marriage into frighteningly funny territory. Mrs Sethi, a widow, can't bear the thought of her only daughter being alone and unhappy. Okay, she's a little plump and opinionated… but she would make a great wife for some lucky man, if only she were given a chance. When Mrs Sethi can no longer stomach the rudeness of families who refuse her daughter, she takes matters into her own hands with the only way she knows... Suddenly a police hunt begins for a serial murderer who cooks a killer curry. Mrs Sethi doesn't feel too guilty until the spirits of her victims come back to haunt her as they are unable to be reincarnated until their murderer dies. Mrs Sethi has no problem killing herself – she'll get to see her dead husband again – but how can she go before her beloved daughter is married? The spirits realize that helping Mrs Sethi’s daughter find a suitable husband before the police catch her is their only chance for a wonderful afterlife! It's a big bloody wedding and a comic feast which takes the phrase 'I could murder a curry' to hysterical new heights. It’s A Wonderful Afterlife is a keenly anticipated "killer romantic comedy" from Gurinder Chadha, the international award winning director of box office hits like Bhaji On The Beach, Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice

My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Shaun of the Dead meet in this charming comedy romp about an Indian Punjabi mother taking... Show More

Perhaps, beneath all the gags, this is an empowerment tale too. Perhaps Bend It Like Beckham wasn’t all that much an aberration

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The New Indian Express

The writing isn’t sparkling enough and after a while, the ghosts with their incessant chatter and peeling skin start to grate on your nerves

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NDTV

In the end, it's a little too sentimental for an out-and-out comedy, but makes for time-pass viewing on a lazy weekend

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IBN

You cringe in helplessness, to realise, this is just a sad B-movie, merely testing bounds of insanity, secretly hoping for a cult status

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Hindustan Times

Cheerless story about a bunch of white-faced, badly made-up ghosts, a despairing mother and an equally despairing daughter

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Indian Express

What was supposed to be a funny satire ends up being a cheesy sequence with the spoof falling flat. Finally the emotional climax is the most clichéd and convenient end the film could have opted for

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IndiaTimes

The humour is sparse and the comedy bordering on the uncanny

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Times of India