🎬 Thamma (2025)

There’s a concept in Jim Collins' Book: Good to Great called Level 5 Leadership which states - Get the right people first and put them in the correct places later. Although this applies to large corporates who mass recruit, it hasn’t been different to all these Universes taking birth recently, and MHCU or the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe (Yes, that is a thing) is also no different. 

Every movie in the universe is just an attempt at roping in A-listers after A-listers into half-baked movies to use them later when they’d actually need them to pull in audiences and deliver. The movies themselves are nothing more than what could be told entirely by a cut-scene in most movies. Like Thamma is.

With Stree, Bhediya, Munjya and now Thamma being the movies in the universe, and a bunch more in the fray to join soon including the recently announcesd Anneet Padda starres Shakti Shalini releasing this december and ending with the ‘Mahayudh’ movies that will come in 2028.

Coming to the movie itself, the plot makes just as much sense as any other movie in the universe does. The story is so fragile and pointless that there is literally no scope for anyone to do anything during the whole plot that revolves around around these mystical creatures called Betals or, A.K.A. Vampires who are people who have died but ressurected and are good? or bad? or none? The backstory they’ve been given is that they are ascendants of Goddess Kali who created them to drink the blood of the demon Raktha Beejasur who had the boon of regenarating infintely as soon as a drop of blood hits the floor, hence Betals would drink the blood preventing him from coming to life again and so goes the story.

Like you’d expect for any other vampire movie plot, this is more or less the same with the genders reversed. The punchlines are just Gen-Z reel references that are a hit and miss, even for someone as versatile as Nawazuddin Siddiqui who’s sadly reduced to being a character who’s neither scary enough to be feared nor funny enough to be laughed at.

Ayushman is also all over the place trying his best to scavenge whatever is left of the storyline and making sense of it.

Rashmika, well, is typical Rashmika. I hate to be sexist but I’m confused about what is getting worse with every movie, her costume or the stagnation in her acting.

None of the MHCU movies are complete without an item track, so they added two this time - for your cringing pleasure and a 3rd one at the end for good measure in case you had any cringe left in you till then.

None of the MHCU movies are also complete without a special cameo, so there’s one in here as well that provides some entertainment for a while but that’s about it.

The only hope from this is that it adds something to whatever movies there are yet to come and adds some backdrop to what happens later in the timeline for these movies in the universe. We can only hope that the torture from this movie will at least add some value then.

This one was never meant to be a hit, it’s not even designed to be a hit. It’s just a piece of a puzzle or at least that’s what they want us to believe.