Mar 27, 2006 11:19 AM
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(Updated Mar 27, 2006 11:20 AM)
Priyadarshan never disappoints! After giving the viewers the funny movie Garam Masala this time he is back with Malamaal Weekly, which is also a hilarious movie!
The Main Characters of the Movie:
Lilaram (Paresh Rawal): He is a lottery ticket seller in the village. He shows to the village that he is the only literate villager who can speak English (only some words). But he is quite intelligent and has the ability to think fast.
Balwant aka Ballu (Om Puri): The village milkman who mixes water in milk and fools the villagers. The villagers think that he is as brave as lion but from inside he is quite a chicken!
Sukhmani aka Sukhi (Rima Sen): Ballu’s only daughter who is around 24 years of age. She is unmarried and looks after her house.
Kanhaiya (Ritesh Deshmukh): He is around 21 years of age and looks after Balwant’s house the full day. But he gets abused and insulted in return! Kanhaiya and Sukhmani are secretly in love with each other.
Karamkali (Sudha Chandran): The Thakurani of the village. The villagers has given their all to Karamkali during the drought due to which they live a life of bonded slavery. She even charges each and everyone for taking water from the village well!
Bajbahadur aka Baje (Rajpal Yadav): He is the brother and the only relative of Karamkali. He wanders throughout the village during the day with the ‘village mavaalis’ and is of no use! He also loves Sukhmani and Baje and Kanhaiya are the biggest foes of each other!
Chokheylal (Asrani): He is the father of Kanhaiya. He is an elephant trainer but his elephant is mortgaged to Karamkali.
Joseph (Shakti Kapoor): He works under the father in the village church. He helps Lilaram and other villagers in their plan. But he always sides with the person who has the money!
Jayesh Agarwal (Arbaaz Khan): He is the lottery inspector of the ‘Malamaal Weekly’ lottery. He is an urban simpleton and gets dust allergy each time he visits a village.
The story of the movie: Malamaal Weekly is a story about the village Lahauli. Lahauli is struck by a drought. The lives of the villagers become more miserable beause of Karamkali, the Thakurani. Lilaram earns his livelihood by selling the Malamaal Weekly Lottery Tickets. The villagers take the tickets from Lilaram hoping that one day they would win the lottery. One day, while watching TV at a tea stall, Lilaram comes to know one of the tickets he had sold has won the 1st pize of Rs. 1 crore. Now nobody in the village knew about this! Now Lilaram wanted this ticket. He makes a plan. He throws a party in his home. To enter the party one has to bring the lottery ticket as the invite! Now at the end of the party, Lilaram realizes that he had sold 105 tickets but only 104 people had came to the party! Then he relaises that Anthony, the village drunkard who had taken the ticket has not turned up at the party. So Lilaram pays a visit to his home. There he finds that Anthony had already came to knew that he had won a ticket. He became so happy with this news that he died with the ticket in his hand. From here starts a roller-coaster fun ride. As the story moves, undesirable twists take place in the story! So will Lilaram get the prize? Will the life of the villagers change?
As you can see, all the favorite stars of Priyadarshan are present in the movie-Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Asrani, Rajpal Yadav and Shakti Kapoor!
Paresh Rawal does a very good acting and from the starting till the end he will not dissapoint you. Om Puri was fantastic this time! Really! It was his one of the finest performances!
Ritesh Deshmukh was nice this time. He did total justice to his role. He really looked and acted like a village youth! Rima Sen who was last seen in Jaal and Aan acts nicely this time. After this movie she may get some more roles.
Sudha Chandran was okay and at times she overacted. Rajpal looked like a maniac in his new hairstyle. This time he really disappoints!
Asrani give a nice performace and did a total justice to his role. Shakti Kapoor was nice this time as compared to the performances of his previous movies. Keep it up! Arbaaz Khan was mindblowing and acted perfectly. Others were also good.
Uttank Vora’s music was okay. There were only 2 songs in the movie. There were no songs in the second half!! It was better because if there would had been more songs, then it would had reduced the pace of the movie. ‘Yeh Ajooba’ is a great song with great lyrics and music.
Sameer Arya’s cinematography was nice. Audiography and other things were normal. Dialogues were witty! Priyadarshan has thought a very nice and unusual story this time! His direction or rather filming (as he says) was superb.
There were some shortcomings in the movie. The second half of the movie became a bit emotional which bored the viewers as they expect a laugh-a-minute riot from Priyadarshan. The climax was excellent and hilarious and if you had liked the climax of Hungama and Hulchul, you will surely like the climax of this story too!
On the whole, Malamaal Weekly is funny and great and will surely entertain you. It is one of the finest movies of Priyadarshan. You should definitely not miss this!!
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