Tauba Tauba, a small budget Hindi movie, tells the tale of 15-year-old Sunny, a motherless child of a business tycoon, Mohan Shanbagh. Sunny is obsessed with sex, this is partially due to Sunny's environment. His sex-crazed principal, Mr. Gomes, goes around bedding all the teachers and at home his Casanova Father is involved in love games with secretary Sophia, who from time to time also teases Sunny with her sexuality. All these factors expose Sunny to sex at his young age, so when Sunny sees 25-year-old Payal, it's not long before he is smitten.
Plot
The Movie starts with 15-year-old Sunny is at school, singing with his friends and generally making an ass of himself. when he goes for his winter vacation to his house in Pune. There we are introduced to Rocky, his multimillionaire father's manager who owes Rs 1 million to "Sultan bhai" of Multan.When his father who himself is no slouch when it comes to chasing skirts goes to London on some business, he leaves his son some blank cheques in case there is an emergency.Rocky needs money, not only to pay off the debt, but also to make a movie with his model girlfriend Rubina.Payal also needs money to pay for her boyfriend's medical expenses. Rocky promises to pay her the money if she can trap his boss' son. Payal then moves into Sunny's neighbourhood to seduce him. Sunny, is treated to watch Payal in bikinis, in a very revealing dress soaping her car, in bubbles luxuriating in her bathtub and in other such enlightening poses. Soon, the two get introduced and Sunny gets the opportunity to rub her back and later, get her in the sack. After having 'sex' with him Payal plays dead. A panicky Sunny goes to Rocky and tells him what happened. Rocky then goes to the lovely neighbour's house, wraps a dummy in a sheet and tells Sunny to bury it. He also deftly clicks some snaps of Sunny burying the 'body'. Soon Sunny gets a courier from a blackmailer threatening to expose him if he doesn't cough up Rs 10 million. Sunny has no option but to use his father's blank cheques. But somewhere down the line, Payal gets guilt pangs and tells Sunny the truth. The rest of the movie is then about Sunny and Payal who wants to do pashchatap and recovering the money from Rocky.
The film was panned by critics upon release. Salil Kumar reviewing for Rediff, gave the film the film a negative review and said, '...it is doubtful if anyone would like to spend Rs 100 just to see a couple of women prancing around in colourful undies'. Guest reviewer for the BBC, Goher Iqbal Punn, also disliked the film and called it film avoidable fare and an ordinary piece of work. Nitika Desai of ApunkaChoice gave the film 2/5 stars and praised the story for balancing sexual exposure with comedy and thriller in the first and second halves respectively, but blamed the lack of substance in the story. It was however noted that those expecting to see lots of cleavages and bikini clad babes will not be disappointed. Kashif Ali of Full Hyderabad gave the film a rating of 1.0 and called it perverse suffering. Pankaj Shukla of Smashhits.com gave the film a negative review but praised Payal Rohatgi calling her a winner as both a sex bomb and an actress. Santabanta.com called the film - Eminently distasteful and not the least erotic or even titillating, 'Tauba Tauba' makes a mockery of the audience.
