Mar 14, 2006 11:40 AM
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(Updated Mar 14, 2006 11:40 AM)
Malamaal Weekly (2006)
Directed by - Priyadarshan
Writing credits – Priyadarshan
Genre - Comedy / Romance
Om Puri .... Ballu
Paresh Rawal .... Lilaram
Reema Sen .... Sukhmani
Rajpal Yadav .... Baj Bahadur
Asrani .... Chokhey
Arbaaz Khan .... Lottery Inspector
Sudha Chandran
Rasika Joshi
Sona Nair
Ravindranath
Ritesh Deshmukh .... Kanhaiya
Shakti Kapoor .... Joseph
The movie starts with a good story line and plot. The story is about a small village were a dead man wins a lottery while the whole village under debt comes to know about it. This plot develops as the entire village tries to fool the lottery inspector into believing that the dead man who won the lottery is alive.
The DOWN SIDE – and a big one mind you… this plot just drags itself to the point that you start to not care about what the end of the movie would be. The other down point is that the songs and comedy is not upto the mark (usually expected from a Priadarshan movie).
The UP SIDE – a brilliant cast, good acting and a few laughs here and there.
VERDICT – a total waste of 3 hrs. After a point of time, the movie just drags you to the point that at the end of the movie you get the feeling that it was barely watchable.
