Remember that pesky kid in school who was a complete idiot, a dork, a real annoyer? He always said the wrong thing at the right time. Tattled on you to the teacher when he saw you pulling out the parchi to maro a lil bit of nakal. Acted dreadfully pious and wore such tacky clothes. Oiled hair. The girls always thought he was sincere and sweet and branded him a Good Guy. The guys liked to take him in a corner and bully him. Everything he did would turn out so wrong. He had the most annoying laugh heard on the planet earth. Well, that guy is Bharat Bhushan, i.e. Vinay Pathak.
Remember the class bully who was so mean. He stole your girlfriend from you. Well, she wasn’t your girlfriend, but a girl who liked talking to you. You were about to propose when he nicked her right from under your nose. He liked making fun of people, was brash and arrogant. He played dirty. He liked getting his hands on the class dork for a spot of fun. He was rich, had the latest gadgets, thanks to baap ka paisa. Ok, here is Ranjeet Thadani or Rajat Kapoor.
Remember how you were? At times you could bond with the pesky kid, at times you could enjoy the mean jokes played by the bully. The bully stole your girlfriend but still you bailed him out sometimes. You were middle of the road, a looker-on. Well that’s Anant Ghoshal for you, Milind Soman.
That pretty principled talented good girl from school. Always kind, sweet and great looking? That’s Sarika or Sheetal Thadani.
The school slut? That’s Suman Rao(Bhairavi Goswami) for you.
That dorkier toothy guy Bharat Bhushan hung out with? Asif Merchant – Ranvir Shorey.
Put all these guys together. Add a couple of decades after high school. Add all the fun you had in the last 2 or 3 years of school and condense them into one evening of uproarious fun when the annoyer was in full swing, saying wrong things at the right time, putting his pious finger in everything, fouling things up so bad that people around him got murderous, on the same evening that the mean bully of school decided to act up. Oh boy, this is one evening you wont forget in a long long time.
Rajat Kapoor and Vinay Pathak share a chemistry that is perfect. As some of the best scenes are between them you don’t know whether to look at Vinay – he is so brilliant, or at Rajat who is such a perfect foil for him. The rest of them are carry the story further and keep popping in and out of the story.
The screenplay is taut and springy. You are not allowed to get bored. Just some time to catch your breath after a bout of helpless laughter. No slapstick here, no dirty gags, no locker room humour. Here is a pure comedy.
SOOO NJOY………