That advice in the title is just keeping in line with the current stock market craze! And if you have sat through ’Shaadi Se Pehle’ you will rush straight to your broker or better still call him from the hall itself and place your order. If you don’t have any shares, you can always go short!
But that is going away from the movie... and what are GOOD actors like Akshaye Khanna (remember him in ’Dil Chahta Hai’?) and Rajpal Yadav doing in a godforsaken film like this? Was this actually written by Sanjay Chhel? What was Satish Kaushik thinking when he was directing this film? Is Subhash Ghai not aware that the common man is now more exposed to comedy due to shows like ’Great Indian Laughter Challenge’ and ’Great Indian Comedy Show’. I think the worst of the contestants would have managed better laughs than this film does!!!
The main problem with the film is that is always ’trying too hard’ to make you laugh. And it does succeed... I think exactly 10 times... with Boman Irani’s two appearances accounting for 20% of the laughs. And to think that Suniel Shetty accounts another 20%) - one where he and his goons are pointing guns at Akshaye and he asks Askhay if he loves his sister saying ’I hope you are not answering under pressure’ - the other where after Boman’s advice to sleep for six hours, he changes his intro line...
The other 60% of the laughs - I am putting it in %ages so that at least the number appears to be large! - are spread out through the film.
The film begins (who is responsible for Akshaye Khanna’s look in the film - if they thought it adds to the comedy they were sadly wrong) with Akshaye speaking into camera sitting behind some romantic DVDs and novels (are ’Traffic’ and ’End of Days’ romantic movies?). It appears that he is about to break up his engagement to Ayesha Takia (horrendous loud costumes - she should fire her designer for this film - but then they should fire everyone associated with this film)
It turns out that he is under the mistaken assumption that he is suffering from cancer and has a year to live. So he decides to make Ayesha break off from him by acting like brash, rude, womanizing drunk. Could have been funny... with this cast and with better writing it could have... but Satish Kaushik decides to take the ’loud’ route and the film ends up PATHETIC (as my office colleague put it).
By the time Mallika Sherawat appears with some eye-candy it is too late as you are already numbed... then comes Suniel Shetty and don’t miss Gulshan Grover (with the most awful villain’s lines in the history of Indian cinema - Luca’s not good something something...!)
By the time things end, you scamper for the exit... and hope that Pankaj Parasher’s ’Banaras’ revives you...
Sorry can’t go on any more... the memories are painful... but one must mention the over-hamming (must be a first) by Akshaye and Rajpal Yadav. And Anupam Kher, Aftab Shivdasani (the 3rd angle of the triangle) and assorted actors who all ham through the unfunny proceedings... oh and the music by Himesh Reshamiyaa is eminently unhummable...
The only good part of the evening was that I did not have to pay for the tickets! But I did lose 3 hours of my life...