Sellers is in Hollywood, playing the part of a really bad actor. After causing disaster on the set, he is fired, and through an unfortunate incident, accidently invited to the film producer's house for an A list Hollywood party. At the party, he causes havoc and mayhem, and his lovable character is a fish out of water, showing up the Hollywood celebs for the grandiose, pompous self-indulgent people that they are.

Hurundi will make you laugh so much, you will hurt from getting stitches. As an Indian, we all have relatives living in Europe and the USA who just do one or two things which seem strange to anyone who isn't an Indian (I only found this out after marrying a Scot), however, Hurundi does all of these things. He is a painful reminder to Indians how ridiculous we can all be, and he is an even more painful reminder to non-Indians of how ridiculous the rest of the world can be.

If you love Goodness Gracious Me, watch it, you'll love it! I guarantee it!


Genius!   May 28, 2004
 26 out of 27 found this review helpful

Some may find his portrayal of an Indian offensive. Some may say it's not politically correct.

I am an Indian (UK born though). Speaking from an Indians point of view , and having shared viewing of this movie with family and people of other ethnic backgrounds I can honestly say this has to be the best amalgamation of typical Indian traits I have ever had the pleasure of watching.

I have met so many people with parts of the quirks and ingrained politeness that Sellers so accurately put together. I watch the movie and at least one person watching with me can say that is so like someone they know. It really is genius!

Watch this movie. If you're Indian I would recommend it even more. Take it as it's meant - fun!

Fave bits: the scene when he is too polite to excuse himself to go to the bathroom while a pretty lady sings for the crowd.
The bird cage bit and how he manages to bungle things up and still manages to....well that would be telling now!

Enjoy


Peter Sellers at his hysterical best   May 5, 2004
 18 out of 18 found this review helpful

Peter Sellers greatest, and (possibly) least known comedy is coming - June 7th
It's previously only been available to those that have multi-region DVD's - so for us luddites the wait is over !

Peter Sellers plays an Indian actor, who finds himself at a top movie producers Hollywood party - enjoy the ensuing mayhem.

There are so many reasons why I love this film:

It's classic Blake Edwards 60's comedy slapstick

It's Peter playing the bumbling Indian actor that make's this film such a classic - he does the innocent fool so well!

So many superbly timed jokes - the bird seed scene is among my favourite

A fantastic script

It's my single most sought after DVD

If you haven't seen this film before, & you enjoy the Pink Panther series - Slapsick comedy - get this on pre-order.


Birdie Num Num   February 10, 2004
 12 out of 13 found this review helpful

After seeing this film, you will repeat the above words time and time again!

Its one of the best comedies Ive ever seen, absolutely brilliant. Even my niece and nephew seeing the film when just 9 & 7 years old, loved it.

Num Num - Birdie Num Num!


Nicely copacetic and wonderfully manic!   November 17, 2002
 16 out of 17 found this review helpful

After two (highly successful) appearances as bumbling Inspector Clouseau, Italian director Vittorio De Sica ('Joe' in THE MILLIONAIRESS) wanted to have a go at utilizing Peter Sellers' characters and manic accents. In his AFTER THE FOX (1966) criminal mastermind Aldo Vanucci (Sellers) escapes from gaol to save his film-starlet sister's honour (then, his soon wife-to-be Britt Ekland) and con an entire coastal village, police and all, into 'featuring' in the film he is shooting as cover for landing the loot - the 'film' is even called The Gold Of Cairo. De Sica was not averse to parodying mankind's often-misplaced reverence of film people, and its delight in 'starring' in a feature film ... losing all sense of proportion in the process! Or of sending-up the arty emptiness perceived of Italian cinema (the exultant film-critic during the trial!). One can easily be forgiven for assuming this was a Blake Edwards film, however, so the real success of De Sica's film was Victor Mature as a fading beefcake star, sending-up his own image.

But Blake Edwards wanted Sellers back. For who better to wreck both an expensive film set (the fort!) and a lavish Hollywood society party than Peter Sellers as the Bengali actor Hrundi V Bakshi (reprising his accent that enraptured Sophia Loren in THE MILLIONAIRESS) ...?!!

The result is a - to many, however - long-winded, one-joke idea in the two-reeler style of silent film comedy, with Sellers' hapless character accidentally invited to an overly-lavish Hollywood producer's party (oh the sheer over-the-top opulence of it all: interior watercourses, split-levels, extensive P/A systems, Russian dance troupe ...) with seriously-overdressed wealthy people and nicely-underdressed budding starlets. Slowly, inadvertently but surely, Hrundi V Bakshi proceeds to dismantle the party's structural integrity in a series of Buster Keaton-like and Jacques Tatiesque (Monsieur Hulot's swing-door!) set-piece sketches.

Nevertheless, there are many hilarious moments. Who, at some time or other, hasn't uttered those deliciously-accented phrases, "Num-num ... Birdie num-nums ..." and "Howdy par-ten-er ...?!!"

"Sir, your wife has fallen in the water ..."
"... Save her jewels ..."

The toilet-paper unrolling. The lavatory flooding. The band playing on as they are engulfed by the foam. And Steve Franken as Levinson, the put-upon and increasingly inebriated waiter who eventually finds love from a kindred soul beneath the bubbles and foam ...

Excellent stuff!