Prabhu Deva is an ambassador of masala popcorn entertainment and his latest Hindi film, Tutak Tutak Tutiya is a staple offering from that genre. This film directed by Tamil filmmaker AL Vijay features Prabhu Deva pulling off comedy and his characteristic dancing with effortlessness. His corny Hindi pronunciations only add to his on-screen goofball charisma. The Om Shanti Om vibe of this film makes it a lightweight, flaky but perfectly entertaining affair.

Tutak Tutak Tutiya is a typical potboiler worth its ticket price. It is a comic love story with a ghost involved. It is the story of Krishna (Prabhudheva), a guy beyond his prime, who dreams of marrying a "modern girl" but lands up tying the knot with Devi, a "village belle", against his wishes and how his disgust gradually turns to love. This may also be an oft-witnessed premise, but the unpretentious and novel treatment of the plot is what makes the film stand apart. The writing is fresh and the narrative is stimulating with realistic performances.

It's not everyone's cup of tea to seriously turn ghost into laughter. Satish Kaushik's GANG OF GHOSTS (2014) tried to be funny but failed. Vijay's TUTAK TUTAK TUTIYA possess fair bit of spooky sense of snarky fun and happily weds itself with the rom com feel though its illogical and lacks any wisdom or cinematic layers or depth for that matter to provide fodders for the thinking, serious and concern audience.

Hailing from Coimbatore, Krishna reaches Mumbai with a single dream - to marry a 'modern' girl who speaks "English without grammar mistakes" so that his future kids too can speak the language. Circumstances in his family force him to marry a village girl. But when the 'village girl' dons avatar of a 'modern girl' - wears short dresses and speaks fluent English, he does not quite like it.

Krishna (Prabhu Deva), a city bachelor, wishes to get married to a modern, English speaking girl but ends up with village belle Devi (Tamannaah). The newlyweds return to Mumbai and rent out a house as Krishna is too ashamed to introduce his desi wife to his friends. Turns out the house is haunted by the ghost of its previous owner Ruby, an ambitious starlet. She possesses Devi to fulfill her impending dream of becoming a popular actress. Krishna's predicament forms the story.

The film tells the story of a South Indian man named Krishna (Prabhudheva), who lives in Mumbai and wants to marry a modern girl, a girl who can speak perfect English without any errors. Director Vijay makes this evident from the first scene itself. Due to circumstances he is forced to marry a village girl called Devi (Tamannaah). They together shift to a flat in Mumbai. Krishna is ashamed of her and tries to shoo her back to the village.

Touted as a 'horror-comedy' writer-director Vijay's Tutak Tutak Tutiya will remind you of Priyadarshan's Bhool Bhulaiya and while there's plenty of lowbrow humour in the film there's barely any horror. Only one special-effects-driven scene on a movable set displays anything supernatural, otherwise the merit of Tutak Tutak Tutiya is entirely on Tammannah's shoulders to show off her acting chops as she coolly straddles two characters.

Kishan (Prabhudeva) is a 34 year old sales guy whose only dream is to marry a 'modern' girl. Hailing from a village in Coimbatore, due to a family emergency when Kishan is called upon back home, his family gets him married to a village belle. Devi (Tamannah) is the 'sanskari' girl who doesn't ask questions in spite of her husband being embarrassed of her. Things get fishy when the couple move into a new house where a previous tenant has committed suicide.

Both the actor and director seem to have forgotten that crucial fact in this multi-lingual 'horror comedy' (out in Tamil as Devi and Telugu as Abhinetri today, with the same faces). In far too much of the running time in Tutak Tutak Tutiya, Prabhu Deva gets only the odd dance number to show his moves, and made to 'act' instead.