
Southall Police are baffled by four successive homicides of East Indians, and request Detective Raj Murthy to mingle with the local community and find out who is behind the murders. Raj does so and meets with his childhood girlfriend, Roopi Sethi, who lives with her widowed mother and brother, Jazz. Both continue to meet and an unsuspecting Raj will be taken by surprise when his superiors consider Roopi as a suspect in these homicides as she knew all the deceased victims. Bef... (Full plot summary below)
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Southall Police are baffled by four successive homicides of East Indians, and request Detective Raj Murthy to mingle with the local community and find out who is behind the murders. Raj does so and meets with his childhood girlfriend, Roopi Sethi, who lives with her widowed mother and brother, Jazz. Both continue to meet and an unsuspecting Raj will be taken by surprise when his superiors consider Roopi as a suspect in these homicides as she knew all the deceased victims. Before they could take any further steps, a fifth homicide occurs - that of Mrs. Goldstein. Again this victim is also known to Roopi, but in order to arrest her, they must find evidence and also a motive.
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| Boxoffice MagazineWade MajorA kind of Ealing Comedy throwback that is arguably her best film since Beckham. |
| New York TimesAndy WebsterMay be a busy trifle, but it has its good-natured charms and agreeable gross-outs. |
| VarietyJustin ChangIt's a Wonderful Afterlife is a movie to make Frank Capra roll over in his grave from indigestion. |
| EmpireDamon WiseWith jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick, this black comedy farce shouldn't work. Somehow, though, it does. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfThe feature doesn?t strive hard enough to remain delightfully insane. Instead, Chadha would rather play with broken hearts than entrails. A shame. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineThis film is so scattershot that it's more exhausting than endearing. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasWhile her latest, It's a Wonderful Afterlife, is affectionate and energetic, its comic premise seems too silly, and at times, too tedious, to hope for much cross-cultural appeal, despite a fine, committed cast. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneA magical realist comedy about the idealization of state-sanctioned heterosexual coupledom. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerDisappointing comedy that fails to find the right tone and is let down by a messy script and a lack of decent laughs, though it does have at least one great moment. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeIt is still probably best appreciated by 12-year-olds, many of whom will love the toilet humour and bursts of extreme silliness that will distract and annoy older viewers. |