Rating: 2/5

Cast: Kirron Kher, Farooque Sheikh, Tanushree Dutta, Ankur Khanna, Masumeh, Lilette Dubey, Sharon Prabhakar

Director: Shona Urvashi

Nitya (Tanushree Dutta) and mom Binita (Kirron Kher) leave Kolkatta to start a new life in Mumbai. Nitya is unable to cope with her parents' divorce. She gets a new lease of life when she befriends Ritesh (Ankur Khanna) who stays in the same building. He helps her get a job at a call centre. Binita befriends the kitty partying ladies of the building including Mrs. Brar (Shanon Prabhkar) and Mrs Jethmalani (Lillette Dubey). She also lands a nursery job courtesy broker Firoz Sethna (Farooque Sheikh) who also helps her understand and invest in the stock market. After some doubts, her friends follow suit. The romantic triangle between Nitya, Ritesh and Kirti (Mausumeh Masumeh) rests against the Sensex backdrop.


On the upside, the characters are colorful. There is an Urdu speaking Mrs Noorani who belittles her daughter-in-law, a South Indian lady whose husband finds hip-hop more interesting than her along with the quintessential Parsi broker Farooque Sheikh. The attention to detail and production design is perfect. Notice the old furniture, files and magazines in Sethna's office and the garish furniture in the Jethmalani household. Binita Sen's bare house metamorphoses into a swanky apartment as both mother and daughter start earning. It is fun to see the ladies switch from saas-bahu serials to the sensex and the spoof on TV soaps called Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Kanya Thi is excellent.

Nobody could have played Firoz Sethna better than Farooque Sheikh and it is a delight to see Sheikh and Kher together. Sheikh should definitely do more movies. The beautiful Lilette Dubey impresses as usual as the Sindhi wife who keeps correcting her husband's English. Sharon Prabhakar springs a pleasant surprise as the loud and talkative Mrs Brar (don't forget the R). Kirron Kher is adorable and lights up the screen. Masumeh plays the bold, charming and calculative opportunist Kirti exceedingly well. Tanushree is sweet as the simple Nitya and Khanna delivers a decent performance.


On the downside, SBS is slow and boring because you keep waiting for something to happen . The wedding scene in the beginning is reminiscent of Monsoon Wedding sans the zest and energy. The Kher-Sheikh angle should have been tied up. It gets repetitive and predictable, unlike the Sensex. The way the Sensex zooms up is also a bit hard to believe.

SBS could have been a fantastic comedy but it fails to deliver. Skip it unless you want to see Farooque Sheikh's excellent performance.