Munnabhai is a happy man. He lives with his gang in the bylanes of a ‘dhobi ghat’ in Mumbai; takes pride in being a ’social worker’ (they actually settle ‘financial disputes’ through ‘dadagiri’); and enjoys his booze, babes, brawls followed by a good night’s sleep. Not much bothers Munna.
Except his parents’ annual visit from the village. Munna’s father, Hari Prasad Sharma, an upright, moralistic man believes that his son is actually a doctor running a charity hospital. Every year, when his parents arrive, Munna and his gang bathe, shave, don white coats and stethoscopes and pretend to be diligent doctors.
This year, however, the clever charade falls apart. Hari Prasad Sharma’s runs into an old friend, Dr. Asthana, who has a daughter called Suman. The two decide that their children, both doctors, would make a perfect match. Munna tries hard to save the situation, but his father discovers the truth. And all hell breaks loose.
Hari Prasad Sharma, now broken by the truth, removes his white spotless ‘pagadi’ and cries. Munnabhai then takes a decision that would change many lives : he decides to become a doctor.
Munnabhai MBBS is a hilarious and heart warming story of a local goon’s journey into the medical world - a place he neither belongs to nor believes in. It is a classic story of a right man in a wrong place.
Country : India
Language: Hindi
Year of Release: 2003
Subtitles: English
Actors
- Arshad Warsi
- Jimmy Shergil
- Sanjay Dutt
- Sunil Dutt*
Actresses
- Gracy Singh
Singers
- Anu Malik
- Shaan
- Shreya Ghosal
- sunidhi chauhan
- Vinod Rathod
IMDB Link : www.imdb.com/title/tt0374887/
Phir Hera Pheri - A laugh riot all the way Faridoon Shahryar, IndiaGlitz [Saturday, June 10, 2006]
I managed to grab a front row seat (Minutes before the house full board was flashed by a proud usher at the ticket window) an hour prior to the second show of ‘Phir Hera Pheri’ in a premium multiplex in Mumbai. And going by the rocking public response to this laugh riot, I am quite sure the house full board will be a permanent fixture in the days ahead. It is good news for ‘Krrish’ producer-director Rakesh Roshan. For, ‘Phir Hera Pheri’ breaks the jinx that sequels never work in India. It’s a ‘paisa vasool’ film that will give you far too many gags to cherish-n-enjoy.Welcome once again to the mercurial world of the awesome-tri-some Baburao Ganpat Rao Apte (Paresh Rawal), Raju (Akshay Kumar) and Shyam (Suniel Shetty). The three incorrigible partners, who just can’t live-or-live-without-each-other. Taking a cue from Priyadarshan’s original version, the story moves forward on the bumpy terrain. The riches that the trio had acquired, courtesy the benevolence of Devi Prasad (Whose granddaughter they had rescued from the dreaded Kabira) is ‘invested’ in a chit fund scheme on the insistence of idea-man Raju who also cons a local thug Pappu (Rajpal Yadav) to pump in some of his own money so that it could get doubled in twenty five days. The simple looking Anuradha (Bipasha Basu), the manager of the chit fund scheme dupes them of their money and they are left with no option other than selling their bungalow to get back to the stinking Mumbai ‘chawl’.
Thereafter, their life is a roller coaster ride from one mishap to another. Pappu gets after Raju while Raju finds out that Anuradha is a bar dancer. He also develops affection for his new landlord’s daughter Anjali (Rimi Sen) who turns out to be Pappu’s sister. Pappu on his part is being harassed by his boss (Sharath Saxena) and his brother (Ravi Kisan) both of whom have an incredulous lisping disorder. For repaying their debt, the three musketeers rob their neighbour Munna (Johny Lever), a local thug with a big haul of expensive drugs. What follows is one dog catching hold of another one’s tail. And the tale-of-laughter marches forward. Non-stop!
‘Phir Hera Pheri’ is a winner all the way. But it’s not without its bloopers. In Mumbai city even a 1BHK at Carter Road, Bandra costs more than Rs 70 lakhs, then how can a plush swanky bungalow with a huge swimming pool can be sold at merely Rs 50 lakh while three antique guns are showed to be worth more than Rs 5 crores. Bipasha Basu’s dubbed voice defies reason as to why should her deep bassy voice be replaced by a squeaky one. The screen time given to both her and Rimi is pathetically small while Suniel Shetty’s jaded performance screams the fact that, Anna must concentrate only on character or supporting roles from here on as his time as a lead hero is up. A couple of songs are unnecessarily added to accommodate foreign locations. And producer Feroze Nadiadwala’s fixation for bikini clad bimbettes shaking their bum or two defiantly continues.
After the bad news comes the good one. Except for a few blemishes, ‘Phir Hera Pheri’ relaxes you completely. In fact, it showers more laughter than what you may have asked for. The circus climax reminds you of the Ramlila episode in Kundan Shah’s ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaron’ for its sheer farcical comic element. In spite of a huge star cast, one man who emerges like a breath of fresh air is Akshay Kumar. He does the incredible by outsmarting even the irrepressible Paresh Rawal. His Rs 1000 rupee note antics bring the house down with guffaws-galore. It’s a delight seeing him honing his craft and at the same it’s very clear that he is having a great time doing what he is doing.
Rawal is expectedly good. The scene where he takes a bath by emptying buckets from a swimming pool tells volumes about the confidence of this gigantic actor. Johny Lever is getting back into form. His dalliance with the guerrilla in a cage is fabulous. Sunil Pal (the winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge) as Jonhy’s side-kick is completely wasted. The man who promised a lot fails to deliver and except for a small dialogue he does nothing in a role that any Tom-Dick-Or-Harry could have walked away with. Rajpal Yadav is a bit of a disappointment as one has come to expect too much from him. Superstar of Bhojpuri films Ravi Kisan as the bumbling-lisping don delivers the punches in style.
Director-dialogue writer Neeraj Vohra, in his second film after ‘Khiladi 420’, is in full form. The punch lines carry a lot of humorous weight. The never ending gags keep the public in splits from start to finish. And to maintain the tempo is not an easy task by any measure. Himesh Reshammiya’s thumping music is a big plus point though a few of the numbers would have sounded better on the audio album rather than stretching the film needlessly. The end leaves a definite scope for a sequel. And it would be a huge compliment if one says….Here’s looking forward to ‘Hera Pheri’ once again.
The wait was worth it. More than three years after Koi Mil Gaya , the Roshans return with the movie’s sequel, ‘Krrish’, a thoroughly entertaining film with Hrithik Roshan as its breath and soul.
Trust me, there is no other ‘super’ star who can pull off the role of a superhero as convincingly as Hrithik has done. The actor has the right mix of brawns, youthful exuberance, grit and emotional vulnerability required for the role. He can be romantic, and he can be stern. He can yield, and he can be unforgiving. By large, ‘Krrish’ remains a Hrithik Roshan movie. But that is not to undermine the performances by Priyanka Chopra, Rekha and Naseeruddin Shah.
legacy of Rohit – the imbecilic youth who transforms into a superhero and a genius after meeting an alien in ‘Koi Mil Gaya’ – has passed on to his son Krishna, who lives with his grandmother (Rekha) after the death of his parents. Young Krishna’s prodigious abilities, his physical strength and mental intelligence astounds his teachers and other children of his age. But his grandmother doesn’t want the world to know about Krishna’s superpowers. So she takes him to a nondescript village in the mountains where Krishna grows in the lap of nature into a strong, handsome, brawny young man (Hrithik).
He runs faster than his horse, jumps long distances in a single leap and climbs the mountains like a spider moving through its web. Only few are aware of Krishna’s qualities. These qualities make him special. But they also make him a sort of outcast among normal people.
Then, love enters Krishna’s life. It literally falls from the open skies into his lap as he rescues a wide-eyed, city-bred girl (Priyanka) from her faulty parachute landing atop a tree.
Their first meeting, as they keep sliding down branch after branch, with the girl in Krishna’s arms, has been shot very beautifully.
It turns out that the girl is Priya and she is a part of a group of adventure seekers from Singapore.
A few pranks follow between Krishna and Priya and her campmates. The campers also get to see Krishna’s super-abilities. While Krishna shows Priya around his scenic village, he falls in love with her. But she returns to Singapore after a mere ten-day stay.
Then she calls him to Singapore on a false pretext, pretending her love for him. In truth she wants to save her job by showing Krishna’s skills on the TV channel she works for.
The gullible Krishna is eager to go to Singapore. But his dadi (Rekha) doesn’t want to send him into the world. She fears that the clever world will use Krishna the way it used and destroyed his father Rohit.
Anyway, Krishna goes to Singapore with the promise that he will conceal his qualities from the world. In the concrete jungle full of high-rises and skyscrapers, Krishna meets both good and bad people. But, can he conceal his super powers? Is he clever enough not to be used by people for their advantage? And will he be able to stop a megalomaniac scientist from making a computer that sees the future? In all the action and drama that follows, Krishna finds more than love. He finds someone whom he had presumed dead.
Right from the opening reels to its conclusion ‘Krrish’ keeps you riveted to the screen. With the exception of a few songs, the movie flows smoothly without dragging even for a moment. There are good hilarious moments in the first half. Even the movie’s supposed villain, Dr. Siddhant Arya (Naseeruddin Shah), is not without a comic knack.
But it is the action and stunts that stands out throughout the movie. Krrish’s giant leaps, his upward somersaults in the air, his skidding through the trees in the forest and his speedy movements (faster than a bullet) reminds me of the action from films like ‘Crouching Tiger’, ‘House of Flying Daggers’ and ‘Matrix’.
‘Krrish’, the movie, fuses these stunts with romance, comedy and fights in a very digestible dose. And the credit for this goes to Rakesh Roshan, the movie’s writer, producer and director. Roshan senior has made a quality product – a film that lays foundation for other films of similar genre. Although some stunts could be depicted graphically more realistically, but that would require a very huge budget.
‘Krrish’, quite an expensive movie by Indian standards, heralds the ‘superhero’ genre creditably.
Besides Hrithik’s superb performance in the film, Priyanka Chopra holds her ground and breezes through her role with the act that doesn’t demand serious histrionics. Rekha still has a natural charm in her beauty. She provides emotional moments in the film.
Naseeruddin Shah is eloquent as usual, not just in his dialogues but also his facial expressions. I wish he had a longer role in the film.
All said, ‘Krrish’ is definitely worth a watch, if not more. The film is a wholesome entertainer that will appeal particularly to teenagers and kids.
When your objective is clear from the onset, and when you don’t veer from that objective (save on a limited 2-3 occasions) the results are usually quite successful and the same holds true for Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal. His objective is to make people laugh, to entertain, and overall to create an enjoyable experience; his objective is not to create landmark cinema or an award winning affair; he does not try to create a typical “masala� affair by incorporating a little bit of everything and leaving the audience with nothing; he wants to make you laugh, and that he does quite successfully.
The film really does not have a strong screenplay or story to boost of; however what it does have are very well etched characters who move from one hilarious scene to another, scenes which are often not even linked or required, but scenes which are absolutely rib-tickling. The story of the film can be summed up in a sentence or two, but as mentioned earlier, here the intention is just to make the viewer laugh; sometimes through witty one liners, sometimes through smart aleck under the breathe retorts and sometimes just though plain, slapstick comedy, without resorting to an inkling of vulgarity. This film is a case in point that even though a comedy does not require a strong story line, if the characters are well defined and the scenes well written, and if the actors bring life to the characters and deliver the lines with the required timing and chemistry which is the basic requirement of a comedy, the film can work as is proven by Golmaal.
Golmaal is about 4 friends who have nothing better to do in life other then con people in order to ensure that they have enough money in their pockets to enjoy life on a day to day basis. When they get kicked out of Laxman (Sharma Joshi’s) hostel the foursome of Gopal (Ajay Devagan) the gang leader much to the dismay of the others, Madhav (Arshad Warsi in a superb performance), Laxman, the relatively more well behaved and highly ethical of the lot and Lucky (Tushar Kapoor) the one who can not speak and yet has some of the best lines, in the process of evading a money lender, they land up at the bungalow of a blind elderly couple (Paresh Rawal and Sushmita Mukherjee) and pose as their only grandson from America. However, their well planned execution goes astray and instead of 1 of them being the grandson while the remaining 3 are to be silent occupants, the grandson Sameer enters as a combination of Laxman and Gopal, wherein Laxman is the body and Gopal is the voice.
There are numerous scenes which will not only have the viewer reeling with laughter, but scenes which will remain with them even after leaving the theatre. Madhav’s take on Rani Mukherji in Black is an absolute laugh riot and is one scene which the viewer will definitely remember. The black and white to colour song picturized mainly on Paresh Rawal and Sushmita Mukherjee, is enjoyable due to its treatment as well as the fact that it takes a dig at the films of yesteryears, otherwise the song actually acts as more of a hindrance.
Ajay Devgan seems out of place in an attempt to create a “cool-dude� persona although he excels in his scenes with Arshad Warsi, where their timing and chemistry is clearly impeccable and they both play off each other very well. Ajay’s old man act in front of the dean is also a treat to watch and will for sure be remembered as one of the most memorable scenes of the film. However if there is any one actor who steals the show it is Arshad Warsi; his timing, facial expressions, reactions and dialogue delivery are perfect to the tee. Sharman Joshi as the “bechara� of the group excels and his role as the voice of Lucky will evoke strong laughter from the audience. The surprise package of the lot is Tushar Kapoor, who technically has no dialogues in the film (since he is mute) and hence he uses his body language and expressions to make-up for the lack of dialogues and he truly does make up for it. Rimi Sen is apt for the role, but how one wishes she would have had a slightly more substantial role. Paresh Rawal and Sushmita Mukerjee are perfect for the role of the old couple and they truly make the black and white song enjoyable.
The only flaw in the film lies in the fact that a few scenes slip out of the comedy genre and create a serious atmosphere, which inevitable puts a speed breaker in the laugh riot and one can sense that the audiences are just waiting for those scenes to end. Also one can not help but feel a sense of dejavu in the climax as it seems to be too similar to the climax of Hulchul. In spite of these flaws, the film is a must see for all those who love comedies and want to see a film which will have them leave the theatre with just a smile on their face and not a single thought on their mind.
Movie Name : Golmaal Tagline : Fun Unlimited Year of Release : 2006 Banner : Shri Ashtavinayak Cine Visions Producer : Dhilin Mehta Director : Rohit Shetty Cast : Ajay Devgan, Tusshar Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Rimi Sen, Paresh Rawal, Sharman Joshi Genre : Comedy Release Date : 14 July 2006