<p>Toilet: Ek Prem Katha<br />Hindi (U) <br />Cast: Akshay Kumar, Bhumi Pednekar.<br />Director: Shree Narayan Singh<br /><br />This one was bound to raise a stink. And Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar do an earnest job in educating half of India where to do their morning squats. <br /><br />The hitch is that the movie does a bad job in linking bowel movements with bureaucracy. <br /><br />So, while the first half sparkles with subtle lessons of a socio-cultural awakening, the second half just makes a song and dance about the government’s commode mission. <br />And what begins as a toilet tale ends up as a paean to the prime minister.<br /><br />A feisty college topper mouthing women’s lib, Bhumi Pednekar goes mute after marriage and hides under ghoonghat when ‘traditions’ stare at her. <br /><br />And it doesn’t help that toilet is an alien concept to hubby dear and father-in-law. It takes Pednekar a number of ‘lota parties’ and stealthy morning ablutions to kick up a stink about defecating in open.<br /><br />A dozen songs pop up amid the shortlived honeymoon and the fights over where to dump that intestine sewage. And the sanitation crusade loses steam midway. <br /></p>
<p>Toilet: Ek Prem Katha<br />Hindi (U) <br />Cast: Akshay Kumar, Bhumi Pednekar.<br />Director: Shree Narayan Singh<br /><br />This one was bound to raise a stink. And Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar do an earnest job in educating half of India where to do their morning squats. <br /><br />The hitch is that the movie does a bad job in linking bowel movements with bureaucracy. <br /><br />So, while the first half sparkles with subtle lessons of a socio-cultural awakening, the second half just makes a song and dance about the government’s commode mission. <br />And what begins as a toilet tale ends up as a paean to the prime minister.<br /><br />A feisty college topper mouthing women’s lib, Bhumi Pednekar goes mute after marriage and hides under ghoonghat when ‘traditions’ stare at her. <br /><br />And it doesn’t help that toilet is an alien concept to hubby dear and father-in-law. It takes Pednekar a number of ‘lota parties’ and stealthy morning ablutions to kick up a stink about defecating in open.<br /><br />A dozen songs pop up amid the shortlived honeymoon and the fights over where to dump that intestine sewage. And the sanitation crusade loses steam midway. <br /></p>