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House of fools?

Housefull (Hindi, 2012)
Now shouldn't it be full house, you may ask. Well, that is how people in India refer to a movie which had sold all tickets and all the cinema houses are full to the brim. This phrase have been around for ages that even those illiterate in English still fully understand the its meaning and is accepted in their society.
'House full 2' is a 2012 Hindi comedy which is remake of a Tamil movie which in turn is a remake of a Telegu movie about two brothers who claim to be the real son of their father! This feud even extends to their spouses and daughters. Trying to outdo each other, both brothers engage a common marriage broker to marry off their respective offspring to someone richer than the other. A prospective groom's father, insulted by one of the brothers, lands in intensive care after a heart attack. In the name of revenge, a conman is sent to woo one of the girls. Through a comedy of errors, 4 people end up claiming a billionaire's son and one lie leads to another and develops into a fiasco of mistaken identity as well as comedy.
It is an entertaining movie but by no standards ground breaking. It boasts of a star studded cast of Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Mithun Chakravaborthy, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Boman Irani, Ritesh Desmukh, Johnny Lever, Asin, Chunkey Pandey, Ranjith and others. Again another Indian movie where the only thing Indian about it is the spoken language, the high decibel melodrama and the melodic run around the park but this time in comfort of resort and beach of Sentosa in Singapore, I think. Gone are the 6-metre long sarees and so-called Indian modesty.
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