With a capital T.

Up until the last year or so, the only Pakistani movie I had seen was the notorious "Zinda Laash," which is still the only vampire movie I know of that uses 'dracula' as a common noun. (As in, "He has become a dracula!") This may have affected my opinions about Pakistani cinema.

To be fair, though, since the late 70s, Lollywood has been looked at as a sort of poor cousin of Bollywood, making the same sorts of movies, only cheaper and more violent. Happily, things have changed, and the Pakistani film industry is enjoying a sort of Renaissance at the moment, which leads me to Teefa In Trouble.

Teefa (Ali Zafar) is an enforcer for the Butt crime family, and no, that is not a typo. Teefa's presented as a charming rogue; he's devoted to his mother, and tries hard not to kill anybody, but he has a real talent for beating people up, and is determined to make the most of it. naturally, when Butt's old friend, legitimate businessman and Polish resident Bonzo (also not a typo) decides to marry his daughter Anya (Maya Ali) to the son of a business partner rather than Butt's son Billu, Teefa is put on a plane to Poland with orders to kidnap the bride and bring her back to Lahore. Anya, however, has her own plans, and has already made arrangements to be "kidnapped" so she can spend some time with handsome bar singer Andy (Tom Coulston), so when Teefa arrives she's more than happy to go along with them.

And that's where the titular trouble comes in - Bonzo has friends in the Polish government, so Teefa is running from the police while falling in love with Anya and battling his own conscience, and you can probably already guess where this is going. It's standard romantic comedy stuff, but it's well written and punctuated with engaging action scenes and fights that range from funny to surprisingly brutal. And not a single dracula to be found.