Feb 04, 2005 11:37 AM
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Laloo Prasad Yadav who makes an appearance at the beginning and end, should sue the makers of this film for defamation.
To have your name associated with such bilgy burlesque is to bring your stock down irreversibly. You feel sorry for all the actors in the film who are made to parade in puffed-up postures of perverse parody situated in Cape Town.
Once there, the characters run around circles looking for a handful of diamonds while the farcical film?s makers run around looking for the script that they probably failed to pack while leaving for their binge of bilge in the exotic locations.(Cape Town should collectively sue for being used as a prop in this scatological travesty).
To say Padmashri..... is insufferable is to state the obvious. More important is the motivation behind it. What could have prompted Manjrekar who once made two meaningful films Vaastav and Astitwa and also directed a very watchable and funny Govinda-comedy Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rahta Hai, to scrape the bottom of the farcical barrel and emerge with an intended comedy that?s as funny as molar surgery?
Molar surgery reminds me of the funny film about the dentist The Nine Whole Yards, from which Manjrekar has borrowed a whole subplot about a bullied man(Manjrekar) his wife(Kunika) and an interfering mother-in-law(Kunika). The same idea was borrowed by two other Hindi comedies Awaara Paagal Deewana and Masti, with much more amusing results.
Padmshri... isn?t the least bit amusing. It?s exasperating in its vulgar overtures. Manjrekar who plays a shrieking stripping farting lawyer also dubs for various incidental characters, including a chauffeur to a man who drops dead in the second reel.
Lucky actor. At least he?s spared the ordeal of going through the mindless motions of mirth that the rest of the vast cast insists on indulging in.
Manjrekar is specially offensive with his flatulent jokes and repeated scatological humour. He even makes the otherwise-dignified Suniel Shetty indulge in vapid ?fire obscenity.
It?s sad to see Shetty making homosexual passes at Johnny Lever, or simply making funny faces into the camera in the vain hope of raising a few laughs. In fact the entire cast can be seen indulging in what can at best be described as roadside raillery masquerading as a rumbustious caper. The dialogues try hard to be funny but end up sounding like impromptu jokes invented by bored Class 5 students.
The players in this unbearable farce ought to know there?s a huge difference between having fun and being funny.
