India, Nov. 13 -- Can merely casting talented actors save a weak film? Not really. And Parivarik ManuRanjan is proof.

Directed by Varun V Sharma, the film revolves around Ranjan Dubey (Pankaj Tripathi), an unmarried government official who has spent most of his life working hard to get his three sisters married, leaving little room to think about his own happiness. His uneventful existence takes an unexpected turn when an advertisement he puts out for a house help brings Helen (Aditi Rao Hydari) into his home. She is efficient at her job, but her presence soon becomes the subject of neighbourhood gossip.

After all, in a small town, a single man and a woman living under the same roof are enough to set tongues wagging. Both insist there i...