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Friday, April 26, 2024
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BOLLYWOOD ALL THE BEST
EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: **
1/2
Veer (Fardeen Khan), A singer in greed of extracting extra
pocket money from his step-brother Dharam (Sanjay Dutt), A business- honcho from
London, tries to lie about his single status and puts it forth as `Happily
Married` with Vidya (Mugdha Godse), Who he is in love with. His friend Prem
(Ajay Devgun), A concept car expert, lends a helping hand in this falsely
embossed projection. Prem is happily married to Jhanvi (Bipasha Basu) , who
takes care of his Ancestors` out dated `CHOPRA GYMNASIUM`. Veer and Prem land up
in debts as they had opted for a short - cut to earn easy money. Watch the fun unfold as both get into a bigger soup when
dharam pays a sudden visit to their place. Time does not give a chance and
circumstances create such situations that Jhanvi is mistaken as Vidya and Vidya
as Jhanvi.. Soon the two start juggling between prolonging the debt payment to a
local don, Tobu (Johny Lever), and convincing plus pacifying Dharam about the
false status. The outcome is a rib-tickling comic situation where veer and
prem handle the unexpected incoming characters arriving at their place and
coping with acquaintances while they boast and cover up with lies in this
hilarious comedy of errors.
In his first really decent and meaty role since "Munnabhai", Dutt gets
into the satirical groove effortlessly and fluently playing a visiting Bade
Bhaiyya from abroad whom his kid brother Fardeen Khan (tolerably befuddled) must
fool into believing he`s married and decent.
The guys in Rohit Shetty`s comedies are anything but decent. Rascals and rogues
of the first order, Devgn and Khan are splendidly supported by a sparkling cast
of comic actors ranging from Asrani to Johnny Lever to the wonderful Ashwini
Kalsekar (remember how cheesy and charming she was in Rohit Shetty`s "Gol
Maal Returns?") to Sanjay Mishra (as a zonked out wannabe householder who
says `Just chill` as though his tongue had just been through a sugarcane-juice
machine).
The screenplay (Robin Bhatt) juices the material for all it`s worth. The
constant flow of cheesy-breezy dialogues is littered with high-school humour but
blessedly no vulgarity. This is one comedy you could take your mom to see
without once walloping a wince into the wanton soup.
The burlesque is fast-paced though surprisingly restrained and has room galore
for PJs. The one-liners are so silly and graffiti-like in their basic humour,
you can`t but titter at the trivia wrapped in gloss that makes welcome room for
Pritam`s pacy music without getting in the way of the one-liners.
So ok. This one doesn`t leave you... er blue in the face. The comedy is purely
situational and the style purely `Rohit Shetty`. That means a bit of slapstick,
a bit of that rapidly-moving tongue in the cheek, and a lot of Ajay Devgn.
And if you add Sanjay Dutt to the bubby buncy comic brew... man, you`ve got a
show that`s on the road from the word go. This time the setting, if you must
know, is Goa.
Shetty doesn`t use the touristic spot as a character. You suspect he places his
colony of characters in the Goan location so they could all be camera-framed
into a streamlined stampede.
There are only three female characters in the show, the rest are all guys
playing conmen, goons, gangsters, wheeler dealers, warriors and worriers all of
whom display an exemplary comic strength.
Sanjay Dutt gets it right after a long time. He has a lot of fun doing his part
and he lets us share his enjoyment. Ajay Devgn`s comic timing has gotten rapidly
dead-on under Shetty`s tutelage. He gives Dutt tit for tat, and then some more.
Not all the material is uniformly amusing. Towards the finishing line you do
begin to wonder how much longer it would take this wonky wacky world of wispy
and reparable wickedness to set itself right.MORE reviews
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