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Looks like Aamir being compared with Tom Hanks went into Aamir' head. Let's face it, he is no Tom Hanks ffs. While Forrest Gump is all out patriotic and lovely, LSC is nothing like the original movie. It is a below-average remake that attempts to make money by pretending to portray patriotism, which it spectacularly fails at. Also, Aamir is still in PK mode in this movie with his creepy bulbous-eyes, stupid-face look. He misrepresents people with special needs, which is as good as insulting them. I would anyday go for "a box of chocolates" over this unsavory "gol gappa".

It seems like 'Decoupled' was made for Chetan Bhagat' fan base (no offense). Never thought I'd say this about something Manu Joseph wrote. I'm a fan of his writing, I love 'The Illicit Happiness of Other People', but the show is a major disappointment. Someone wrote on Goodreads that Manu Joseph became uncool after drinking some of that "Sanghi Kool-Aid", but that person will be forced eat their own words if they were to watch the show. 🙄 I'm not sure if Netflix tweaked it to suit their target audience and ruined the script in the process or the script itself was written horribly. My heart yearns for clean comedy from Indian writers (something like the Seinfeld brand of observational comedy) free from excessive innuendos, expletives, discourtesy, etc., but this show distances itself (perhaps purposely) from such clean comedy. May be that's why it got approved by Netflix, because incivility passes off as "comedy" these days. 😏😒