I am quite happy that the "middle-of-the-road" cinema is still alive. Rather tired of the hyped other stuff (signs that I am old?)- maybe due to an overdose of bad films in recent times. The plot is king here-a deftly arranged and directed one.
This film has shades of Gol Maal by Hrishikesh Mukherjee with switched identities-only, here the confusion is much more. Many people simultaneously loving a "girl" at the other end of a phone line is the basic plot. The dialogue is clever, and raises quite a few laughs.
Mostly depending on Ayushmaan (he has gone places, from Dum Laga Ke Haisha onwards till here) and Annu Kapoor, some of the other characters- like the poet-policeman (Vijay Raaz?), Dadi, and the Sardar friend, have done very well. Nushrat Bharucha is adequate in a male-dominated story. But then, Gol Maal was also male-dominated, with Utpal Dutt and Amol Palekar stealing the show.
Go watch it for fun. The music is bad, but inconsequential to the film. The lecture at the end was also unnecessary, I thought..got too may lectures in life, maybe?
This film has shades of Gol Maal by Hrishikesh Mukherjee with switched identities-only, here the confusion is much more. Many people simultaneously loving a "girl" at the other end of a phone line is the basic plot. The dialogue is clever, and raises quite a few laughs.
Mostly depending on Ayushmaan (he has gone places, from Dum Laga Ke Haisha onwards till here) and Annu Kapoor, some of the other characters- like the poet-policeman (Vijay Raaz?), Dadi, and the Sardar friend, have done very well. Nushrat Bharucha is adequate in a male-dominated story. But then, Gol Maal was also male-dominated, with Utpal Dutt and Amol Palekar stealing the show.
Go watch it for fun. The music is bad, but inconsequential to the film. The lecture at the end was also unnecessary, I thought..got too may lectures in life, maybe?
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