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![]() Yes, the director´s story-writing skills are a bit riotous. To try and explain the tale in a paragraph would be challenging for any human being, let alone Super Critic. Let us just say it is a soap opera-like mish-mash of plenty of movies we´ve seen before. You want two guys after the same gal, you´ve got it. You want mistaken identities, you´ve got it. You want rich girl loves poor boy, you´ve got it. You want deception and betrayal, you´ve got it. You even want Beverly Hillbillies, you´ve got it. Saabji aur membsaab, jo bhi chaahiye, you´ve got it. And luckily, once you finally sort out what´s going on, you´ll enjoy it more than all the Govinda and David Dhawan comedies we have been enduring of late. Our laughter, of course, is courtesy Neeraj Vohra´s often rib-tickling dialogue. Add to it the super-combo of Priyadarshan and Paresh Rawal together (a la Hera Pheri and tiny bits of Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar), and you´ve got a recipe for success. But there had to be something different and better for the duo´s third collaboration together, right? Exactly! So director-sab added Shoma Anand (aka the evil bahu from 1980s´ family flicks) as the... uhm... better half (!?!?!) of Mr. Rawal´s village based billionaire. Each time the constantly quibbling and pseudo intellectual Tiwari couple interact on-screen, you are guaranteed a laugh, or two, or ten. They´ve got great chemistry, and you can see each trying to outdo the other throughout the movie.
Compared to the Shoma and Paresh sub-plot, almost everything else is drab. Nadeem-Shravan´s soundtrack was poor enough to begin with, and not surprisingly, it results in the most unexciting videos I have ever seen in a Priyadarshan movie. (That´s a major shocker for a man who has displayed unwavering panache in his film song videos in the past. Remember the brilliant vibrance of Saat Rang Ke Sapne´s desert dances or the fairy tale-based Doli Sajaa Ke Rakhna ditties?) These dull songs come at unexpected intervals, and thankfully always end quickly. Camera-work and editing are decent, but by no means extraordinary. And the background score is muted and poor. But you or I won´t care. If you want to see a good masala mind-bender these lazy hazy days of summer, Hungama is a safe bet. Though not in the riotous league of comedy classics, you will enjoy it. For an industry that has not produced a full throttle laugh-riot in ages, at least this one is "fun". "Fun limited" though, not "unlimited".
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