Reception

R. Paul Dhillon of the Vancouver, British Columbia arts and entertainment Web site Straight.com (co-star Neeru Bajwa

Neeru Bajwa

Neeru Bajwa is an Indian model turned actress who first started with roles in Indian soaps on Star Plus and Zee TV and now appears in Bollywood films. The real name of Neeru Bajwa is Arshvir Bajwa. She is engaged to television actor Amit Sadh.-Early life:...

 is Vancouver-raised), bemoaned "a lame plot and largely clichéd characters", and called it "another half-baked NRIs-in-the-Punjab tale", using the abbreviation for non-resident Indian, while he did praise "Ghuggi, who’s become Punjabi cinema's version of Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

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", for "a very nuanced and controlled performance, right down to the accent and mannerisms of Indo-British lads". Frank Lovece

Frank Lovece

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 of Film Journal International

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concurred, saying the "unexceptional romantic comedy won't turn any U.S. cineastes into Punjwood

Punjwood

Punjabi cinema is the Punjabi language film industry in the states of Punjab in India and Pakistan. This article deals with Punjabi cinema in India.The first Punjabi film was released in Lahore, provincial capital of the Pakistani Punjab...

 aficionados, and lacks the production values and star power Indian-American audiences have come to expect. ... The movie has modest charms ... but they're often drowned out by a bombastically melodramatic score, and lots of sitting-around-talking scenes with go-nowhere dialogue". Singah, he wrote, "shoots with dull, flattened lighting far removed from Bollywood's typical crystalline sheen". Maitland McDonagh of MissFlickChick.com took a middle ground, calling the film "overlong, painfully cliched but occasionally surprisingly sly and clever".

Commercial Success

Despite these negative reviews it seems to have done very well at the box office and seems to have gone down well with fans

External links

• Munde U.K. De Trailers
• "Cast of 'Munde UK De' comes calling", The Tribune (India), May 1, 2009
• Southern, Nathan. All Movie Guide Overview: Munde UK de