The closest match for Comedy Couple in food is Navratan Korma.

You have a male lead who is a habitual liar, the lead pair is billed as India’s first and only standup comedy couple, there is potential for a culture clash: the man’s parents are as traditional as they come while the girl’s single mother paints nude models in Paris. Oh, there is also the familiar tale of a boy and girl in love thrown into the mix.

Except, there are too many cooks who seem to have handled this korma that when you are done watching Comedy Couple, it is hard not to think: maybe, a simple dal could have done the trick.

Comedy Couple follows the story of Deep Sharma (Saqib) and Zoya Batra (Shweta); the gags and jokes aren’t exactly unimaginative, but the benefit of hindsight does make one think if the standup act itself was irrelevant to the storyline. Deep and Zoya could well have been doctors or trapeze artists in the Great Bombay Circus, it wouldn’t have made a difference to the tried-and-tested formulaic storyline adopted by Nachiket.