A fine evening this Wednesday, I planned to go for a movie & out of the recent releases (this time around Wednesday was the D Day for releases which was supposed to be a Diwali gift to audiences by the film fraternity), Garam Masala was the obvious choice. But I was skeptical of getting tickets for current show in the Multiplexes close to my place, I decided to go to R-World in Gandhinagar, where I usually get tickets even at the last moment, which is around 10 Kms away from my city. But thanks to the week long festive off in Gujarat there were people queuing on the ticket counters, I also tried my luck, but Garam Masala was houseful on day 1.
Going back home all the way 10 Kms without watching the movie I wanted to was disappointing. So I took tickets of another comedy – Multi starrer Shadi No – 1
Directed by – David Dhawan
Cast – Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, bla …. Bla…. Bla … <MULTISTARRER :)>
– 3 husbands – Fardeen, Zayed, 3rd guy (never seen him before , oh ya have seen him in Style some time back) don’t have a sexually active married lives coz they are jobless & their wives <Ayesha Takia> (religiously active in the movie), <Esha Deol> (filmi career centric), & <Soha Ali Khan> (Divorce lawyer) respectively are too busy with their own lives and passions.
These deprived husbands decide to commit suicide & incidentally they meet <Satish Shah>, who is also trying to commit suicide and saved by these 3 guys who then offers them a job. Satish Shah is the father of 3 girls (<Riya Sen, Sophie and Anjali Chabbaria>) and these girls who are living abroad have become so modernized that they don’t believe in the concept of arranged marriage. Satish Shah lures these guys to pretend to fall in love with his daughters & subsequently break their hearts so that their idea of love marriage is deluded.
The plan works on track when these guys meet the girls in a foreign set up, win their hearts (without any efforts though as if the gals were waiting for them only :)) , but then they refuse to break their hearts as planned. Since they were looking for some heat & spice in their lives, & they were getting that from the girls, they decided to continue the heat between themselves & to take care it happens smoothly their strategy was Gharwali ghar pe aur bahawali bahar.
Things take a big turn when <Sanjay Dutt> a.k.a lucky bhaiya does an entry. He plays a spoil sport in the fun these guys are having & one day the secret is also revealed to the wives, the gals too come to know that the guys whom they were planning to marry are already married.
But in the end when the gals leave the guys and go away the guys realize their mistake & go back to their wives who forgive their erring husbands.
<Music – Anu Malik>
The songs of the movie never caught my attention in the promos on TV& they were not able to impress me even on the big screen. I’d say the music was average, the songs were there just to be there, not really entertaining.
<Performances> – Sanjay Dutt didn’t have a scope to do anything in the movie but whatever he did he justified that. His Punjabi accent and his habit of giving Missals in the movie was a bit too much at times but he added some funny bones to the movie here and there. He is an actor of mettle and he has proved that time and again but here he was just under-utilised.
The 3 guys were average again. I’ve always like Fardeen (he is good looking & so is Zayed). But besides looking good on the screen, they really were not able to impress me by their acting. The 3rd guy infact had a better chance for dialogue delivery, may be because the director gave him better dialogues than the rest, and there was a scene in which Sanjay dutt makes him bald, he looks too funny there.
The 3 wives again were not able to impress, there was no scope for it. The 3 gals did nothing besides wearing skimpy clothes & dancing around with the guys.
Poor Rajpal Yadav who plays Esha’s god father in the movie industry was not give any chance to display is comic talent (a review within this review - I simply love this actor, guys go watch Mein meri patni aur woh if you haven’t , Rajpal is simply superb in that)
<The movie over all> – Ok ok, time pass popcorn, light movie, no brains required to watch it.
<Final word>– David Dhawan has given us many good comedies, but something like this was not expected of him. Yes it was supposed to be a comedy movie but comedy seemed to over-imposing itself on the audiences. The story was ok but the way it developed itself and grew was not really up to the mark.
Go watch it if you really have to but do it at your own risk!!
Sush.