Movie Review : Money Hai To Honey Hai

Money Hai To Honey Hai (comedy)

Cast: Govinda, Aftab Shivdasani, Hansika Motwani, Manoj Bajpai

Direction: Ganesh Acharya

Critics rating:  

HARD to understand why Govinda needs to be so desperate? After all, he is the uncrowned king of comedy in Indian cinema, having created a staunch fan following of his own. Naturally then, the fans and the aam janta cringe when he dons the greasepaint in senseless films like this. Surely, he needs to be more choosy now after having successfully accomplished a second comeback with David Dhawan's Partner . Here, as a pampered rich singleton, he's neither fit nor funny.



It's a silly story, from start to finish, with a cranky old millionaire (Prem Chopra) selecting six losers as his legal heirs, before hitting the bucket. The odd assortment of thakela folks includes an out-of-work model (Upen Patel), a film-crazy starlet (Hansika Motwani), a bleeding-heart fashion designer (Celina Jaitley), a bumbling copywriter (Aftab Shivdasani) and a rustic entrepreneur (Manoj Bajpai). Not forgetting fat and unfit runaway son, Govinda who tries to become the manager of the vela bunch. Add to this a lusty Archana Puran Singh and a scheming villain and you have a comedy that doesn't make you laugh. It makes you cry with the sheer inanity of the proceedings.



It's disturbing to see actors like Govinda and Manoj Bajpai plunging to such depths. Not justified. Neither for money, nor for honey.