Good Boy Bad Boy' Runtime: 114min 57sec - Written & Directed by: Ashwini Choudhary

Plot Outline
Rajan Malhotra (Tusshar Kapoor) is a proverbial bookworm, forever lost in studies and completely oblivious to the frolicking of a college dude. He hails from a well-to-do background and his parents are constantly worried due to his somber nature and his lack of interest in any extra-curricular activities.

Raju Malhotra (Emraan Hashmi) has absolutely no time for studies as playing notorious pranks on others takes up most of his time on a daily basis. His father constantly ridicules him for his wayward ways.

As fate would have it, the identity cards of Rajan and Raju get swapped during a new partitioning of the students is in process. The idea is to split them into a hierarchy of academic achievement into different tiers, and so the games begin ...

Overall Impressions
The games begin.. or do they? The film is supposed to be a comedy and so some of the belief should be suspended, fine, but treating the viewer as a total idiot can be a little much. Quite a lot of the ongoings just don't add up, like how none of the other students seem to twig, even near the end when the parents get to see how well their sons are doing, calling them by another name without the parents noticing, I mean really?

The fact that both students do their best at talent that isn't their forte' and manage it, can be forgiven, that (I guess) was the point of the film. To prevail through difficult tasks and strengthening weaker skills, but are you convinced this is what happened? Not really.

From the writing perspective, it's all a bit of a mish-mash. The music doesn't have all that much to add to the enterprise either. Fortunately the performances hold up a notch above these flaws making it watchable.

Emraan has a natural flair for comedy which appears well for pretty much all of his scenes and though he seems to have cropped up out of nowhere in the acting world, he is actually quite good. Tusshar too is pretty good, in fact I only really watched this film because of him. He's an under-rated actor that just doesn't seem to be getting the right roles to shine. Paresh Rawal as the Principal is competant as always. The women get little scope to do anything here I'm afraid.

So overall, do the performances make up for an otherwise terrible film? Ha, not even close, as I said earlier, it makes it watchable, not good.