Jul 19, 2006 06:11 PM
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Well, nobody can say we Indians don’t have a good sense of humour! Though we went to see the first night, late night show, I had not gone with much expecations; just to see a light movie. It turned out to be much better than I had expected. It’s a total “laugh your ass off” type of movie.
The plot is very simple as it should be for a comedy movie. 4 guys, all small time scam artists, more like college guys turned bad. Running from a creditor they find a house where only an old, blind couple lives alone waiting for their grandson to return from US. They get in under the guise of their grandson Samir and start living there.
The story moves pretty fast and the situations are really rib-tickling, bellyaching funny. The two things I loved most in this movie are dialogues and direction. Dialogues have been written in a real-life, simple language style with pretty good allusions and similes.
Direction is also pretty tight, slapstick comedy has been kept less, with situational comedy in the fore.
Star cast is good. I would have preferred someone other than Ajay Devgan in the lead but nobody can say that he is a bad actor. Supported by good dialogues and tight direction, he has done a great job.
Arshad Warsi is another story altogether. Ever since I saw his work in Munna Bhai MBBS, I have been a fan of this versatile actor. There is no movie, there is no role, where he cannot make you laugh. He is simply amazing or “mind-blowing” which seems to be his favorite catch-phrase. In this movie, though he is in second lead, he is still responsible to make you laugh a lot.
Sharman Joshi is okay, I think, young but not bad performance. Tushar Kapoor is speech-challenged in this movie and he has delivered a good performance. Some of his babbling scenes, do actually make you laugh really hard.
I think the real meter to gauge a comedy movie is the breathless scenes. How many times did you have difficulty in breathing because you were laughing too hard? This movie is very good in this regard. At one point in the movie, I was laughing so damn hard, my sides ached, I could not breathe, and tears rolled out of my eyes. Now that’s the kind of movie I would pay 130Rs. per ticket for!
Music, not bad as modern music goes. While I did not like the title song too much, I did like a couple of songs, one was “Mere dil mein aa ja soni” and the other one is a song picturised in half-Sehgal-black-and-white style and half in modern-blaring-orchestra-technicolor style. The black and white part of it is superb, musically. The words are something like, “Kyon aas-pass phirte ho bhanwron ki tarah”. There are not too many songs, 3 in all if I remember correctly, and that helps keep the movie moving alone at a good pace.
Paresh Rawal has only the serious stuff to deliver the comedy in his share is not too much. Sushmita Mukherjee does a good job as the grandma, no comedy in her share too.
In the choice of the heroine also, the director did not consult me. Rimi sen has a good body but to generate enough sex appeal to carry on a full movie, she has a long way to go. In the movie she is just a typical modern girl, always ready to take offence at a moment’s notice and always willing to go for the winner. Fortunately, she doesn’t get a lot of footage in the movie. Again, Devgan doesn’t look good wooing or persuing a young girl like Rimi but… whatever.
All in all, a great movie. Well worth the price of admission and a good entertainment.
One small tip – don’t buy too much to eat. You’ll be needing your mouth mostly for the guffaws and you don’t wanna see that Coke come out of your nose.
Cheers.
Oh, btw, I am going to watch it again. At least once. Maybe this weekend.
