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EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: *
Shakal Pe Mat Ja is a Gaasmandu film!!!! If you don`t understand
what it means, well this is the lingo of today`s generation that is often used
in this film, meaning All Gas.
A light-hearted comedy, the film is literally a one-day show in terms of the
time span of the story and as well as its exhibition.
The prologue begins with an absurd amateurish scene of the 55th World Terrorist
Awards taking place in some god-forsaken prison, where the prize for the best
terrorist is given to a bearded Rohan Govardhan Malhotra. This leaves you
assured that you are watching a slipshod attempt at exposing the slice of life
in a terror-fixated society.
It all happens one fine day in Delhi when Ankit (Shubh Mukherjee), his younger
brother Dhruv (Pratik) and friends Rohan and Bulai are out to shoot a
documentary on terrorism.
In order to capture a brilliant shot of a low flying commercial plane, the
foursome land up at the periphery of Delhi international airport. After the
shot, they are accosted by the police and arrested as suspects. They are brought
before the inept airport security cop, Raghuveer Yadav.
With Bulai and Rohan having unconventional looks, the handycam having shots of
sensitive areas of Delhi combined with the idiom - looks can be
deceptive the four are grilled.
For further interrogation, the Anti-Terrorist Squad is roped in. Vijay Dinanath
Chauhan (Saurabh Shukla), the ATS officer, and his assistant (Joy Sengupta),
play perfect buffoons as investigating officer and his man Friday.
The story takes a twist, when an actual terrorist, O-mama (Zakir Hussain) with
his terror network, Al- Baqueda, plans to blow up a plane. With characters like
Wasabi, Riyazbhai, Rafiq and Ameena - a set of amateur jihadis added by
deceptive goof-ups, mistaken identities and madness created by comedy of errors,
the film reaches its climax when the four guys by default bust the terrorists`
plot.
The music and background score by Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, Nitin Kumar and
Yo Yo Singh is too loud and disappointing.
Shaurabh Shukla, Raghubir Yadav, Mustaq Khan, Joy Sengupta, Aamana Sharif and
Zakir Husain try to elevate the film, but alas!
Subh Mukherjee as the actor-writer-director seems to be a bundle of talent that
needs channelising. Some of the scenes are well handled. In short, the film is
good in parts.
With no pedigreed casting, hackneyed scenes and dialogues inspired from recent
films, the film lacks the novelty factor that one looks in for first time
filmmakers` projects. The treatment is so mediocre that it seems like a
well-made college project.
SPMJ is a story of 4 young boys who get caught up as suspects at the Delhi International Airport, on a High Alert Day. They get caught while capturing an American airlines aircraft landing on their camera, which they claim to have shot for a documentary that they are making
With their explanation and situation not being fruitful. They are brought into the interrogation room of the international airport into the Interogation room of the International Airport to be questioned by the CISF