Apr 08, 2004 08:48 PM
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(Updated Apr 08, 2004 08:48 PM)
Remake of a Malayalam film, Ramoji Rao Speaking, Priyadarshan presents a comedy for all those who are tired of watching David Dhawan comedies. Herapheri is a clean-cut comedy, which effortlessly makes you laugh.
Babu Rao (Paresh Rawal) has two paying guests Raju (Akshay Kumar) and Shyam (Sunil Shetty) who live below poverty line (read unemployed). One day they get a call meant for a rich businessman Devi Prasad (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), that his granddaughter has been kidnapped. The goons (Gulshan Grover and team) demand 20 lakhs as ransom. This wrong call triggers a plan in Raju's mind about making a quick buck; so they call up the real Devi Prasad and ask for 40 lakhs.
After lots of complications, we have a happy ending. Priyadarshan has given a good film but as Hindi audiences are difficult to please he had to put in a love track of Tabu and Sunil, wherein they sing dream sequence songs. Tabu makes a guest appearance in the film and doesnt make a mark. The actress of Tabu's calibre is wasted.
And the funny part is that the lyricist, Sameer, went haywire with too many nonsensical words like chan chana noo, pon pon, tinak tinak, tunak tunak, and more. Perhaps he didn't have the right lyrics to fill in.
Paresh Rawal is brilliant in the film. Akshay Kumar is much better than Sunil Shetty and, Namrata in a song appearance appears hot.
The dialogues are really witty and full credit should be given to Neeraj Vora. The direction is fantastic. One or two songs like '' Tun Tunak Tun'' and '' Chana Chan Cha'' r gr8.
All in all: A paisa-vasool movie. Brilliant.
