Comedy Couple

Nachiket Samant’s 115-minute film on Zee5 is based on a story by Bikas Ranjan Mishra and a screenplay by a bunch of writers. Comedy Couple is as contrived as a fake personal anecdote told on the stage to raise laughs. As Zoya comes to terms with Deep’s tendency to dissemble, and as he grapples with his parents (who conveniently drop in for a visit), the film goes from being a potentially interesting study of comedians co-creating material to a dull romcom about manufactured differences.