Nov 28, 2005 02:05 AM
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(Updated Nov 28, 2005 03:47 AM)
Namaste everyone! I’m going to cut out my usual introduction, coz otherwise this revu is going to be way tooo long. I'd like to dedicate this revu to aLi, coz he's such a big Akshay Kumar fan and he's just finished writing 50 revus! So here it is: a garma garam revu, hot off the tavaa! :P
Story…(don’t read if you don’t want to know it)!
As aap sabh clever logo ko pata hai, comedies usually have crazy OTT stories, which leave us wondering whether they can even be called stories. But that is the whole fun of watching a funny movie…not knowing what lies around the corner!
The story begins with the song Adaa, telling you exactly what the two protagonists are about – Mac (Akshay Kumar) and Sam (John Abraham) are prancing around taking photos of semi-dressed girls and falling over each other like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. They are a pair of pretty dumb photographers…not even knowing the “f” of photography! :P They work for a magazine called Garam Masala (which dumb sort of person employed them in the first place?). So does a pretty secretary called Maggie (Neha Dhupia). Both of them invite her on a date, even though Akshay is engaged to a very seedhi-saadhi girl called Anjali (Rimmi Sen). Both their wallets get stolen, and they disappear, leaving poor Maggie to pay (hopefully she wasn’t literally poor)!
Next thing that happened is Sam takes someone elses photographs to enter in a competition…he wins (duh) and everyone knows he cheated, but they don’t really care coz Garam Masala gets so much publicity, etc, etc. Sam khush, Maggie khush, everyone khush. Apart from Mac of course, who gets so jealous of Sam stealing his limelight. So while Sam is on his prize all-expenses paid trip to America, Mac vows to take revenge. He starts by getting three airhostesses “engaged” to him, met through a money-hungry editor. They all look very pretty, and obviously don’t know that their fiancée is three-timing (actually four-timing, but Anjali is nowhere to be seen for quite a while). He obtains a posh flat by pretending to work as a caretaker in it, and gets a few posh cars from an alcoholic driver (Rajpal Yadav). Enter Uncle Mambo (Paresh Rawal), a cook who helps Mac with all three girlfriends. Amusing and chaotic times follow especially when Sam returns home!
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I’d just like to say that Priyadarshan is a master of the game, where films like this are concerned! His fills each and every scene with some sort of energy, even if it is grief (which also comes across as amusing). He always tries to get the best out of his actors, and I think 95% of the time he does. Watching a Priyadarshan movie is a treat, coz you are bound to find something extremely funny and memorable in it!
Storyline on the whole was a little far-fetched and unimaginable, but then again if it were’s the fun in being predictable? ;) Overall the scene changes were smooth and made sense. But I would liked to have seen a less abrupt ending…I ended up wondering whatever happened to Maggie, and how she should have met Sam again!
Its impossible to write down all the hilarious scenes in this review, impossible to capture that comic timing and chaotic atmosphere in words. But some of my favourite lines were definitely “Tune kyaa shaving cream lagayaa yaa Chavanprash?” and the whole bomb/Bombay/terrorist fiasco towards the end. And of Paresh Rawal’s scenes were really good!
Acting…
Akshay Kumar::: Rumour has it that John has been moping around these days coz they cut out too many of his scenes to make room for more of Akshay’s! But kyaa kahu? He stole the show! One of the most essential things to make comedy successful is the comic timing…and Akshay definitely has that ability. Aur wah, uske kyaa adaaein hai! I always admire that laid-back and chilled attitude he has…man, he can even make three-timing look like child’s play (“par mujhe nahi pata tha ki bachche aajkal itne bade ho gaye!” lol!). And you even think he has it all sorted, until things start falling apart and he starts banging his head on the wall. Yet even such an act of madness looks classy on him! :P I think its safe to make the conclusion that any comic flick with Akshay in it is sure to make you at least chuckle once (if not practically die of laughter) :D Hey I share the same initials as him too!
John Abraham!!!::: One of the main reasons I went to watch the film was after seeing John in the promos! What a filmfest for eye-candy lovers – John taking photos, shirtless, golden-tanned on a golden beach; John decked out in retro gear by Rocky S, amusingly trying to start up a the motorbike (looking like he’s imitating the “Aakhen Khuli ho ya ho Bandh” dance step); John with the cutest smile on his face, yet plotting evil against his so-called friend; John dancing around in a red T-shirt, waving his arms like a drowning cat and singing sooo sweetly sourly! I could go on, but I’ll stop before this turns out into a review about him!
This movie was definitely a golden opportunity for John to try out a new kind of acting. Well he hasn’t been offered the most light-hearted roles for a while…he’s been playing a psycho, a broken hearted doctor, an illusion, a poor bullied guy, and a bank-robbery mastermind (although I thought he was brill, esp in the last one I mentioned)! Honestly speaking, I think John could have done better in this...you could tell he was getting conscious in some parts!
Paresh Rawal::: Another character who is totally amazing at comedy! I couldn’t imagine anyone doing all his roles as well he does! Especially such tailor-made roles like those of Hera Pheri, Hungama and Awaara Paagal Deewana, to mention a few. He plays a moody cook, with an “attitude problem”. Although he does a lot more than just cook…work includes changing photos to match the woman whose come, coming up with a lot of cover-ups, and frequently chucking all the food made with so much effort into the bin!
Rajpal Yadav::: An alcoholic driver. Now where are the morals about drink-driving in this movie? He was amusing, but nowhere as funny as when Chota Chetan was after him in Hungama! His role could have been improved…
The Girls::: Too many of them, each with too little a role! Firstly there’s Neha Dhupia who, despite being ditched by the two guys and left to pay the whole bill, remains in a good mood! But she dissolves into thin air and there is no mention of her afterwards. Then there’s Rimmi Sen, playing a sati-savitri doctor who is engaged to Akshay. Her role is too predicable, and its too seen before, but she did it well. Phir there are the three airhostesses AKA flights (the way they are talked about is hilarious!). I don’t know their names, but they all looked so similar that I couldn’t remember their names even if I tried! And even if they were portrayed as clingy, suffocating, over-inquisitive women in the movie, this is a wrong impression of women in reality! :P
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