Seriously Comic. Review on Five Best Hindi Comedy Movies

I am back after a long time. The absence was due to the birth of my second daughter in Feb, and now I am the proud father of two lovely baby girls. Anyway here goes my review.

There are movies which make you laugh, there are movies which make you cry. Some movies make you cry because they genuinely touch your feelings and some movies make you cry out of despair. But there is a special category of movies which make you laugh even when you are not supposed to.

I mean these movies are not comedy movies as per se but they are shot in such a way, that you laugh even during the serious scenes in the movie. Now Bollywood is famous for producing innumerable such ?Comedies? and so here are my favorite ?Comedies?.

1. Prem Agaan Feroze Khan is famous for his stylish action thrillers like Qurbani, Jaanbaz, Apradh, but after watching this movie I came away convinced that he is pretty good at making romantic comedies also.

The movie is actually a love story between a rich girl and poor boy( very original na), but Feroze Khan comes up with so many wonderfully comic sequences that you are left laughing through the entire movie. I mean see the heroine has this fetish for jumping off high cliffs, so comic isnt it, and she tells the hero that she wants to jump with him off a cliff. Wish they did that the movie would have come to an end sooner. The hero?s dad is an Army officer so he utters comic dialogues like ?Tum apna pyaar to camouflage kyon karna chahte ho beta?.

And oh yes the most comic scene the villain has a son who looks like a sadak chap guy. Now he lives in Australia and when the heroine?s dad along with the villain. Oh you see the heroine?s dad and villian are best friends, again another stroke of comic genius by Feroze Khan here. Anyway this guy falls off his horse while riding and you have four gori blonde babes rushing to his side and telling ? Rajesh, Rajesh, Oh Rajesh? in an indecipherable accent.

Now this jerk is supposed to be marrying the heroine, but the heroine?s papa is so proud that his would be son in law is such a flirt. Can you find any scene more comic than this?

1. Prem PujariOh a timeless comic classic by the master of comedy Dev Anand. This movie was the beginning of a series of comic classics that would be directed by Dev Saab like ?Awwal Number?, ?Hum Naujawan?, ?Love At Times Square? to name a few. Now Dev saab wanted to make this movie about a pacifist, but such a serious issue couldn?t have him with songs. So what did he do , he added a love story to it.

Now only a love story, no Dev Saab thought let me add an espionage angle to it also, so that I can shoot lovely gori mems in Europe. So what is the movie is it a pacifist movie, a love story or a spy story? I was pretty much confused about it, but since most of the scenes were so comic, I was convinced that it must be a comedy. This scene is enough to make you feel it?s a comedy. The hero is sitting with a hapless dog, and showering some shayari about peace and brotherhood on the border. Anyway a soldier from the enemy camp, fires and the dog dies( I am sure it would have found it much more merciful than to listen to Dev Saab?s ramblings).

So Dev Saab, in an attempt of anger shouts at the man why he fired at the poor dog. And then the soldiers this side of the border start firing. And then Dev saab in his sing song style intones ?Vo Yahan Se Maarega, Vo Wahan se Maarega, kab tak chalega yeh?.

The sentry guard understandably miffed shouts ?Court martial him?. What could have been a serious and poignant scene, turns inadvertently into a comic scene thanks to Dev Saab?s brilliant mis direction and hamming.

1. Mohabattein I did like Aditya Chopra?s DDLJ, which was cute and sweet. But when he decided to stuff 4 love stories in one package, it become a 3.5 hour comedy called Mohabbatein. Everything is comic about Mohabattein. See the hero is a music teacher who romances a ghost, and wherever we have the Frakenstein like principal frowning, we have the hero coming to rescue. And the antics of the 3 pairs of lovers are so comic, that even when they say ?I love You? to each other, you end up chuckling. But the most comic parts must go to the romantic pair of Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma and her cartoon of a boyfriend called Deepak( who seems to move around with an equally cartoonish gang).

See Kim Sharma moves around in the movie with her boyfriend dressed around in literally nothing. One fine day her boy friend pushes her into the pool in a mood of playfulness, all of a sudden she becomes so shy, and covers herself and starts to cry. Then her true love Jugal comes in covers her with his jacket and leads her out, while her boyfriend looks on with a ?What the ?..?? expression. Now that?s what I call classic comedy.

1. MardManmohan Desai has this knack of making really campy stuff. No issues with that, but trouble begins when he tries to pretend its really serious. It happened in Coolie with all that Ma Beta, religion stuff, but Mard deserves the award for the ?Best Comedy Movie Made on The Freedom Struggle? award. With dialogues like ?Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota? it beats all other contenders hollow. I mean can anything be more comic than Dara ?Cowboy? Singh stopping a plane by throwing a lasso around it.

Well maybe Dubya should take some hints from that. Or Amitabh Bachan wearing a costume which seems neither Indian nor Western. Oh yes the hero like Phantom has a dog and horse, and they in fact pull out his tonga from drowning also. And for the Britisher you have Bollywood?s resident baddie Bob Christo as a Firang.

1. MahaveeraWell the 80?s were a decade for some real comic movies. But the movies directed by Raj Kumar Kohli would take the entire bakery for this. Now consider this all time comedy classic. Raj ?Jaani ? Kumar is in a double role, that itself is the biggest comic draw. I mean two Raaj Kumars. So one Raj Kumar is a cop, and one Raj Kumar is a Don. Dimple Kapadia and Raj Babbar are brother and sister, Raj Babbar is a cop while Dimple becomes a Daku.

Shatrughan Sinha and Dharam Paaji are brothers again, but Dharam Paaji is a cop and Shotgun Bhai is a daaku again. So we have 3 Deewars in this movie with Dharam vs Shatru, Raj vs Dimple, and the comic piece de resistance Raj vs Jaani. I mean imagine if listening to one Raaj Kumar is comedy, what would you say about listening to two Raaj Kumars verbally sparring each other, super comedy I guess. And of course since Shatru and Dimple are in same daku gang, they fall in love, and now Dharam Paaji and Raj Babbar have to choose between sibling feeling and *vardi ki izzat.

So, ok I give up, the plot is getting to complicated for me too, all I can say this is a comedy of errors of the first kind. Happy Viewing.