Undercooked Bheja!. Review on Bheja Fry 2

Have you all by any chance read "Robinson Crusoe" story book in english classes in school. I may think yes you all have. Have you seen movies shot entirely on cruise with the confusion going around like "Jo Bole So Nihal", and then you must have wonder about the movie "Phir Herapheri" made as 2nd part of the famous "Hera Pheri". Well you're getting to my point, and let me start reviewing the latest flick "Bheja Fry 2" (earlier named as Bheja Fry Masala) by Sagar Bellary, the director of original Bheja Fry.

There's a sweet alomst-loving-cum-irritating guy Mr. Bharat Bhushan (Vinay Pathak), the upcoming singing sensation of India, who this time won a quiz show "Aao Guess Karein", just because of the fact that the viewer love him, and channelwalla headed by Kapoor (Rahul Vohra) needed TRPs. He won 25 lacs minus tax, and a 2day-3nights stay at Star Cruise. He has a friend, the honest income tax officer MT Shekharan (Suresh Menon) aka south indian, who is behind the business tycoon Mr. Ajit Talwar (Kay Kay Menon), who opens many fraud companies to show his expanding business. And then there's executive producer of the show cum newly developed love interest of Bharat Bhushan ji named Ranjini (Minishha Lamba), and then they all aboard the cruise to enjoy the parties and trip. Bharat try to adjust in the rich environment, while Shekaran is a tax officer in disguise. Now Ajit took Bharat as the disguised tax officer, and he tries to throw him in the sea, but he himself alongwith Bharat ended on a lonely island, where nobody lives, except a old crazy wildlife photographer Raghu Burman (Amol Gupte), and then after few misadventures movie come to an end.

Well, I must say, Sagar tried really too hard to provide highly expected part 2 of a hit movie, and in the process he forgot the basic theme of movie i.e. Bheja Fry of characters of movie, not the bheja fry of viewers. The part 1 was matter first, story 2nd, here Sagar went for story first and matter 2nd, hence the hotchpotch. Part 1 was inside house, so this must be outside on a cruise and an island just to freshen the audience. The problem with this movie is too much characters at one go, just like Neeraj Vora's mistake he did in Phir Herapheri. Introducing characters can never insure the box-office hit for a movie. And I missed all the characters of part 1. Here all the actors are great actors, hence they delievered what is expected of them, Vinay Pathak topped it with his idiotic image, but Kay Kay Menon doing a Rajat Kapoor and Suresh Menon doing a Ranvir Shorey was not good, it was better if Sagar uses the original characters. He can go the Munnabhai way, atleast he should retain major characters. I missed Milind Soman and the Nymphomaniac women too. But I must appreciate the factor that some of the scenes are really hilarious, when you cannot stop your laughter, those scenes numbered around 5-6, then around that screenplay (Sagar Bellary, Arpita Chatterjee) is built which was not up to the mark. They tried to mix fun in adventure, and that make the mockery of a comic movie. First the cruise, then the Robinson Crusoe act, so ideas vanished. And Bheja Frying was not that much. The picturisation was good, plus the locations, this scores a plus points, since their shoot looked like shooting on a lonely island, and a bombing scene was original, photography was natural. Some scenes lack direction and are out of place, one of the scene including Virendra Saxena coming alongwith a foreign girl to enjoy on beach is out of place, I don't know why the director put that scene, I didn't get the linking of it. Although the director tried to retain the original style of Bharat Bhushan here too, which provided some laugh. Suresh Menon was good in south-Indian lingo alongwith Kay Kay. 2nd Half put you down alongwith the climax part. Some of the scenes worth mentioning are-

1. Bharat Bhushan's introduction scene

   
   




2. His verbal spats with his South Indian friend MT Shekaran outside his home

   
   




3. Scenes on cruise with his interacting with high-class people

   
   




4. His verbal spat with his South Indian friend MT Shekaran on cruise

   
   




5. The interaction between Bharat Bhushan and Ajit Talwar on the lonely island

   
   




6. Their intro to crazy photographer Burman

   
   




7. Their stealing of phone from Burman's house

   
   




8. The Bombing of Burman's house

   
   

Well yes, movie is comic to a bit and in small sections (atleast not mindless as Phir Herapheri or Jo Bole So Nihaal was), and yes expectation can took a toll over it but trying harder didn't fetched good results atleast here. I was confused whether I would suggest this movie or not, after coming out of cinema-hall yesterday, but then I decided that yes, you can watch it, but don't waste money in theater, instead watch it on CD/DVDs. My Take 2.5/5.

GRuchirG.

(: in the process of growing-up :)