I haven't ever really had the reason to think about it, but I suspect I could be called pretty biased in favour of movies with the word “fish” in the title. (Yes, yes, bring on the Bengali jibes.)
Be it the eternally cool Rumble Fish, the fake-Facebooking documentary Catfish, Andrea Arnold’s evocative Fishtank, Tim Burton’s marvellously magical Big Fish and, head and shoulders above them all, one of the finest comedies in all of English language cinema, John Cleese’s flawlessly plotted and deliciously cast A Fish Called Wanda.
The reason I reflected on this odd fondness for films of a piscine bent was Gurmmeet Singh’s What The Fish, an abysmal effort and a complete blot on the fishy escutcheon.
There is a solitary gag -- that of a fish who is never fed, with disastrous results -- and this is repeated over and over and over again, ad nauseum.
As ideas go, that one smells particularly unhygienic.
Dimple Kapadia, in possibly the most forgettable role of her career, shows up as a cantankerous aunt, and while one must feel bad for her being in a film this mediocre, I’d like to assume she only shot her scenes -- there are but a couple, really --
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PIX: Poonam Pandey, Rakhi Sawant strip for What The Fish!
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