YES! THAT’S RIGHT!! Amazing, eh! Well if you are able to leave your brain out, then it’s positively yes, I knew about movie’s bakwaas story, I knew movie was a hopeless, and that’s why for the exact reason my time is passed easily, and I kind of enjoy the movie. This review is about a movie named JOKER made by another JOKER of this industry Shirish Kunder. No wonder why Akshay Kumar backed up at the last moment from the films publicity. This guy’s a crack, how did Farah lives with him, but as everybody use to say “LOVE IS BLIND”. Anyways this movie is made under the banner of Farah Khan’s ‘Three’s Company’ and co-produced by Akshay Kumar himself, marks 2nd movie of Shirish as director after Salmaan-starrer Jaaneman. TMK was the earlier movie which saw the trio of Akshay-Farah-Shirish, but it was partly saved by the direction of Farah.
Here’s the story – A man who is working on a machine which will contact alien (just like Rakesh Roshan did in Koi Mil Gaya), his name is Agastya (Akshay Kumar), and he’s Mohan Bhargava of Swades, and comes back to his village alongwith his girl-friend Diva (Sonakshi Sinha), the village name is PAGLAPUR, which was once the town consisting the biggest mental hospital, and now only mental live there. But because of them, nobody visited or enters that spooky village. This team of mad guys included Agastya squinted dad played by Darshan Jariwala, Agastya’s brother Babban (Shreyas Talpade, I am still wondering what he was doing in the movie with his out-of-mind blabbering, abba-jabba kind!, this time it goes like golkot man ka bhusi), Vindu Dara Singh (he become a natural choice), Kachua (Pitobash, waste of wonderful actor), teacher (Asrani), self-claimed Rajaji (Sanjay Mishra), Lord Falkland’s grandson (). Now there stand a bigger problem that this deserted village is facing shortage of water, for this When Agastya went to the CMs of Mukhya Pradesh, Uttam Pradesh or Prajasthan states, he came to know that their village is not in the map of India, so nobody can help them, then he decided to create a lore of alien coming, so that the village attracts media and attention from all over the world just like ‘Peepli Live’ did.
Plot, as I already said, bakwaas, but I still hope something should be there just like TMK. I enjoyed movie, and I liked the movie being a short one (just 1 hr 50 min), that was enough of watching a nonsense! I thought that maybe after making TMK, Shirish will not take another dig at unusual madness, but he did it again, and make it a worse attempt. This movie is a kind of parody stuff, and both wife and husband are interested in making parody movies only. In foreign there is this prevalent concept of mixing 3-4 original film and making a parody film out of them, and generally all those parody movies attracts viewers, like ‘Scary Movie’, they also shows nonsense, but still they do it the brainy way. This movie should be called the Indian Scary Movie for it scared the hell out of viewers (They thought ‘what the hell is going on’), had it been treated better and given some more respect by director himself, who knows, maybe it could become a hit, but khair chhodo! Still movie passes your time if you went there with blank mind and expression, they tried to put comedy tracks, but it was very few. Some dialogues come good (only some!) like when they discuss about Joker’s role in the game of card. Plus I liked the photography, it was foolish to think about the setup they staged, and clothes they wear or the things they do, but still the picturisation looks good to me, think of a village which have a spooky looking houses, and some scenes of the film is shot in gray light, which comes as good. Background score fitted well and everytime gave the movie a feel of fantasy and scary at same time. The songs were also not so good, but fitted well to the plot and enjoyed them too. The song which I liked is ‘I Want Just you’ an item number acted by Chitrangada singh, and sung by Sunidhi Chauhan. Lyrics by Shirish are idiotic, but music by Gaurav Dagaonkar was good. Other songs include ‘Jugnu’, ‘Sing Raja, and ‘Yeh Joker’. Now if we talk about casting and acting department I must say that this movie wasted a lot of talent of Bollywood cinema like Asrani, Pitobash and many more. Now what exactly was Shreyas doing in the movie, I think as of now he don’t have any work, and in a dire need of money, that’s why these kind of roles he is getting. I think this movie will certainly get most nominations for ‘The Golden Kela Award’, and Shreyas will certainly get nominated for the famous ‘BAWRA HO GAYA HAI KE’ award category. Minishha Lamba was also there, why, I don’t know but no problem, she got nothing to do.
Well, you can easily avoid this crap of a movie but with minimal or no expectation, you can actually enjoy the idiotic movie. Just think that you are yourself a mad guy from mad-pur village! If you’re able to handle TMK, you can handle this one, and if not thinking then wow! That could be one of the best decisions of your life. I heard somewhere that Shirish commented that this movie is intended for kids, well, what do you think Shirish, today’s kids are more intelligent than you! My take 2/5. Hope Farah can instill some brain-matter in Shirish’s mind.
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Jai Raam ji ki :)