This is a pleasant enough, diverting comedy. At the beginning it seems as if it could be a tasteless culture shock film, but over time this aspect reduces and a touching story of relationships emerges. It centres on the relationship between a hapless 'loser in love' brother and his Lothario brother, who has just left the Muslim girl across the street pregnant, but keen to continue his life with his wife. It emerges into a heart-warming story between the cowing relationship between the luckless brother and the Muslim girl, and his attempts to ingrate himself into the family. Overall, not a bad way to spend an hour and a half, the story is fairly light and frothy but nevertheless enjoyable.
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