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Director
: Kundan Shah
Starring : Suniel Shetty,
Raveena Tandon, Shekhar Suman, Shakti Kapoor,
Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Makarand Deshpande |
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Kundan Shah goes the credit for directing "Jaane
Bhi Do Yaaron", one of the brightest situational
comedies in Indian cinema. In it the humour hinged with
heaving hilarity on a corpse, played by Satish Shah,
being shuttled from one place to another.
There's a lot of physical
activity in "Ek Se Badkhar Ek", much more
than in "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron". The characters
are either running helter-skelter, probably in search
of the scriptwriter, or they're busy rolling their eyes
and smacking their lips in a broad display of rollicking
fun and pleasure.
But are we, the stupefied
spectators, able to partake of Kundan Shah's film? No!
The film generates loads of sweat but no heat, and certainly
no warmth. It's all about let's-give-them-a-wacky-comedy-at-any-cost.
And never mind the mind.
The secret of creating
a successful situational comedy lies in its spontaneity.
Though the improvisational spirit among Shetty, Shekhar
Suman and Raveena Tandon is alive and kicking, the material
they're given to chew on is more perspiration than inspiration.
The satire on the uneasy
nexus between the police force and the underworld hinges
on a single line - the intellectually challenged Rahul
(Shetty) wants to be a don, cop Kanchan (Raveena) wants
to catch one. Their initial sequences together simulate
a squabbling synergy that quickly becomes a casualty
of comic overkill.
The sequence in the
claustrophobic wrestling bar where Kanchan downs a few
strong pegs and then has a wild and violent time had
the potential to be as free-spirited as Sridevi's titter-turn
in the gambling den in "Mr India". Kundan
Shah fritters away the titters in extravagant welters
of guffaws that drown every aesthetic element that could
possibly have been inherent in the comedy.
The best sequence is
the one where the kidnapped gangster Gulshan Grover
is hauled by two senior cops to prove his credentials
as the most powerful don in Mumbai. If only the director,
known for his penchant for muted statement, had kept
the noise decibel down!
Every character screams
the dialogues as though he or she were rehearsing for
the latest parliamentary session.
Alas, noise cannot compensate
for the absence of genuine comic aptitude. This is a
really screwed-up screwball comedy. Raveena has a ball
doing a Lucille Ball. Sadly for her, and for us, the
premise for an 80-minute satire is stretched to 180
minutes of excruciating nonsense about mistaken identity
and long-lost winks.
By the time Makarand
Deshpande, with his fine sense of the comic, makes an
appearance to play as many as three roles, we're as
lost to the plot as the plot is to the characters.
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