Let me be frank. I thought I would go watch Humdum and call it Humbug.

After watching it, I thought Humdum has dum.

The tagline, 'the first ever game show in a film,' starts with a pathetic joke.

The first couple chosen to play after much form sorting and interviewing are Sidhant De (Romit Raaj) and Rrutu Joshi (Anjana Sukhani). The two have their reasons to want to earn the Rs 10 crores prize money. The rules of the game are simple. To win the booty, all the young couple have to do is not fall in love.

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The couple, obviously, fall head over heels in love.

But if they choose love over money, they get to live together but may get beaten up by some goons whom they owe money to. And if they choose money, they cannot meet each other for 20 years!

The movie is less than three hours, which is good, as it does not lose pace. But one wished they did not insert songs for every single emotion.

The look of Kushan Nandy's second film after 88 Antop Hill is very young and fresh.

Humdum has its genuinely hilarious moments. Tanvi Azmi and Benjamin Gilani are wasted as Rrutu's mother and Sidhant's father. The newcomers have come up with decent performances.

But it is a watch-once-only flick.