Never this year have the marks for a film swayed around so erratically in the last ten minutes of a movie.
For a little while I was going to give Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji a full two marks more than I'd expected because it had gone off in a completely unexpected and welcome direction.
Then in the very last seconds, kaboom...my hopes dissolved.
It sort of summed up my relationship with a movie of which I have been on the trail for most of the year.
I had lined up to see it in Bradford Cineworld back in February and even bought my ticket but the sub-titles were not working.
I've resolved the situation by getting the movie on Lovefilm only for our small telly to reject the disk and the DVD player on our bigger telly to stop working.
Also, my laptop refuses to play movies. Fortunately, my son is home from uni, so I borrowed his and am now completely au fait with Madhur Bhandarkar's movie.
Sadly, there is no Bollywood-style happy ending for my saga because the movie left me flat.
The premise is that a 38-year-old banker (Ajay Devgan) is living in his deceased parents' home during his divorce negotiations and lets out a couple of rooms to avoid loneliness.
In step gym trainer lothario (Emraan Hashmi) and a geeky marriage matchmaker who is desperate for love (Omi Vaidya).
Within a pretty short time the banker becomes transfixed by a beautiful 21-year-old co-worker (Shazahn Padamsee).
The geek is obsessed with a radio presenter (Shradha Das), who is so far out of his depth she might as well be 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Meanwhile, Romeo flits between relationships before settling on the married wife of a high-powered businessman.
All of the relationships are preposterously unlikely.
The banker thinks he is making great strides yet his target never even uses his first name, calling him 'sir' throughout.
From the start it is clear that the radio DJ is just a user and the geek will get hurt and that the Romeo's flightiness is going to be his undoing.
But while all three men were making fools of themselves I just didn't care.
I was really sick of Devgan's pained expression and could muster up little sympathy for his plight. Honestly, the sad nearly 40-something chasing a 21-year-old....
But even then I had more for him than for Vaidya, who I just wanted to slap some sense into and Hashmi, who I just wanted to slap, full stop.
Never was I on anyone's side and consequently the film, whose songs were as uninspirational as its script just fell away.
Was it comedy or drama? I've no idea and consequently am giving it 3.5. It would have been 5.5, though, if Bhandarkar had used the correct ending.
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