It doesn't matter how many times I drive to Leicester, I always end up running through the streets.
A few months ago when I went to the Phoenix arts centre it happened, when I drove to see my team play Leicester City, it was the same and, today, for the second time I missed the first minute of Love U...Mr Kalakaar.
Mind you, I'm defending myself a little bit on this one.
The Piccadilly Bollywood cinema must be one of the only ones in Britain not to take a credit card.
Worse still, the cashier didn't even know where there was a cashpoint.
I went into two shops before finally discovering a nearby Barclays only for there to be a queue of five people who obviously wanted to do their banking for the whole year.
Anyway, I finally darted back to the Piccadilly and spent the first 20 minutes of the movie, sweating and huffing and puffing.
Thus, what I needed was an easy unchallenging movie. Come on, this is a Bollywood romance. I could have written the script while I was in the queue for the hole in the wall.
If I know anything about Hindi films, they will almost certainly contain one of the following:
1. A handsome young man and beautiful young woman from contrasting backgrounds falling in love.
2. The relationship being kept away from the father of the one who is wealthier.
3. The dad finding out and being entirely unreasoanble.
4. Family and friends persuading the dad to change his tune.
5. Everything ending happily ever after.
I really don't think it's a spoiler if I say Love U...Mr K contains all five elements.
Amrita Rao (yet another model turned Bollywood actress) is the heiress in question and Tusshar Kapoor as the poor cartoonist with the wonderful personality.
It's a solid if unspectacular directoral debut from S Manasvi who plays it safe throughout.
There is an interesting twist in the plot which I shall not give away but adds a bit of darkness and helps it, at least, claim a modicum of originality.
But overall, this was more of a big effort to tick off a movie than one I'll remember much in the weeks to come. It gets 5.5/10
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