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      Mad Sad & Bad

      2009 1 hr. 30 min. Comedy List
      29% 14 Reviews Tomatometer 31% 50+ Ratings Audience Score Friends and siblings have their lives messed up by their own selfish needs. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member ...I did smile on occasions, but I also did recall getting a bit bored at the three quarter point in the film. I think I was glad it was only 90 mins long otherwise I would have struggled to maintain an interest. I thought Atul had his moments and perhaps bought to me the most to the film. All in all, a bit laboured with the occasional lighter moment. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member interesting observations of family, being Asian in England, and cheese Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member A cute but nasty little comedy about an extremely dysfunctional family in a little town in the UK. The family is indian, but could be just of any other cultural background. An older dissatisfied mother and her three adult children - two sons and a daughter. The film is always running on the edge of the absurd but isn't life always! The dialogue is biting, characters extremely human (everybody knows those types) and acting just as good as you can expect from a British production. And what is best, there were several "oh, no, they didn't" moments. Definitely worth watching!! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Some familiar faces in this one, but its a shame its a bit naff Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Mad Sad and Bad is a cute little movie,if you are Indian that is. Its an Indian film,not an Indian Indian but British Indian.Mad Sad and Bad are the three children of Usha ( Leena Dhingra ). Mad is her elder son Atul ( Nitin Ganatra ) a psychiatrist who 'advises' everybody and keeps insisting that hes not a sex maniac.Sad is his sister Rashmi ( Meera Syal ) a perpetually depressed woman who liver at home and rarely gets out.She is waiting for the right man to turn up 'a good Indian man' is what she wants. Bad is their brother Hardeep ( Zubin Varla ). He is a writer who writes 'shitcoms'.This according to his own admission.He is in the process of writing an opera which he hopes will be his magnum opus.In a nut shell,this is a dysfunctional Indian family.Would I see this film but for the Indian connection ? I think not.Watch it once. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member With family like this...who needs enemies?. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Wally Hammond Time Out A disconcerting fluctuation in tone - from sorrowful satire to cheesy sitcom - proves the film's fatal flaw. Rated: 2/5 Jul 31, 2009 Full Review Toby Young Times (UK) Like a BBC One sitcom written by someone who thinks he's Strindberg. Rated: 2/5 Jul 31, 2009 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Despite some nice ideas, and an impressive cast, Avie Luthra's family-ensemble movie doesn't entirely come together. Rated: 2/5 Jul 31, 2009 Full Review Cosmo Landesman Sunday Times (UK) Like a sitcom pilot that should never have seen the light of day. The characters are cardboard cutouts and the comedy lacks bite. Imagine the same script featuring white characters and you will see just how second-rate the screenplay is. Rated: 1/5 Aug 4, 2009 Full Review Philip French Observer (UK) has its moments, but the great Meera Syal and a gifted cast are not well served by an undeveloped script and some uncertain direction. Aug 4, 2009 Full Review Hannah Forbes Black Film4 All we learn from Mad, Sad & Bad is that, while a decent comedy can aspire to get away with all sorts of things, a lack of imagination shouldn't be one of them. Rated: 2/5 Jul 31, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Friends and siblings have their lives messed up by their own selfish needs.
      Director
      Avie Luthra
      Screenwriter
      Avie Luthra
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English