Too much "GARAM MASALA" Spoils the Broth!

If you guys are thinking that i am talking about a recipe here , then no, i am not. I am talking about this supposedly hilarious movie named "Garam Masala". After watching this movie my faith in movie reviews has been shattered...
"A movie by the famous Priyadarshan" was more than sufficient for me to rent it. I remembered the time i saw another of his creation ,"Hera Pheri". And i thought a few laughs would not hurt. To influence my decision were the rave reviews about the movie and the fact that it had run housefull in India as well as in the US(i don't know what is happening to peoples' taste these days). And i thought to myself , despite warnings from some friends, how bad could it be....

Well, it was not just a little bad but the most painful movie watching experience i ever had!! The storyline was just plain dumb, the actors were blabbering the first thing that came to their mind( i would actually add here that no one really put their mind to work in this movie). Take for instance this scene; heroine walks into flat where hero's friend is sitting with his back to the heroine. Heroine mistakes him to be her hero and hugs him. Friend takes advantage of the situation and pulls her. When heroine realizes her mistake she screams but friend just does not let go. Finally, she pulls herself away from him and asks why he was doing this inspite of her screaming to let go. The dialogue that follows is genious!!! Friend says , " mujhe lagaa ki tum Mac (hero) ho". God Bless the heroine if she sounds like a male and yet is an airhostess in the movie.
The best actor ever, Presh Rawal , is not given any justice to his role. All he does in the movie is cook for 3 different females and throw all the food in the trash. And do they not know the concept of refrigerating the food ?? Another funny thing in the movie... people are shouting on top of thier voices in the living room but people in the bedroom cannot hear them. And thus our hero manages to hide 3 females in the same apartment at the same time. And mind you, no one is whispering.
The most annoying part, our hero has a fiancee, who is a doctor( a fact underlined thanks to the stethescope she was carrying all throughout the movie), and yet he has not one , not two , but THREE airhostesses as girlfriends!!! And the fiancee has nothing to say at the end when she comes to know of our hero's actions. So here i was, at the end of 2.5 hrs , numb with this comedy(?) ,feeling stupid for having wasted my money over nothing, and watching it till the end just hoping that it would get better at some point( my hubby having abondoned the movie halfway through). This movie sure gave me indigestion and next time i will definitely avoid a movie with too much "Garam Masala" in it!