Ayushmann Khurrana brings back the golden era of comedy with Pati Patni Aur Woh Do; says, “It’s a throwback to a time when storytelling was simple, clean, and genuinely funny”

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Actor Ayushmann Khurrana is gearing up for the release of his upcoming family entertainer, Pati Patni Aur Woh Do. The film promises to bring back the charm of classic situational comedy, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Hindi cinema. The film taps into a storytelling tradition that audiences have cherished for decades, a space where misunderstandings spiral into hilarious situations, every character adds a new layer to the narrative, and the humour feels organic, clean and timeless. Speaking about the film, Ayushmann said, “Pati Patni Aur Woh Do is a situational comedy in its purest, most classic form. The idea traces its roots back to the legacy of Sanjeev Kumar. I have been a big fan of his work. Humour from films of that era emerged from misunderstandings, timing, and character dynamics. I’ve always admired that style of storytelling, seen in timeless films like Padosan, Chupke Chupke, Angoor and Gol Maal. They are a laugh riot and I’m hoping Pati Patni Aur Woh Do will al...
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Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) review – lockdown memoir revives childhood bliss

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Olivier Assayas’ thinly disguised autobiographical study of a film-maker’s Edenic experience during Covid isolation is a civilised pleasure

Olivier Assayas’s new film is a flimsy but elegant autofictional sketch about his own experiences during the Covid lockdown, bubbling up with family members in his childhood home in la France profonde. It’s a movie which reminds us that for all the anxieties, this period of enforced inactivity was for grownups of a certain age and financial security not entirely unpleasant – a reminder of the endless, aimless summer days of childhood, an Edenic existence outside time which workaholic media professionals thought never to see again. A kind of miracle.

Vincent Macaigne plays dishevelled film-maker Etienne (very different, surely, from the stylish Assayas), who has come back to the handsome family home of his late parents, staying there with his girlfriend (Nine d’Urso) and communicating with his ex-wife and adored tween daughter on Zoom. He is going to be living there with his brother Paul (Micha Lescot) a music journalist and his new partner (Nora Hamzawi). Assayas uses what appears to be his actual home and in his opening autobiographical voiceover introduces us to the house and grounds - easily the best part of the film, actually - and in further personal sections dispenses with the fiction and talks about the “Assayas” family.

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