Tries too hard to make you laugh!!!. Review on Shaadi No. 1

Bollywood producers and directors had stopped releasing their films for one whole month-the month of Ramadan,when Muslim audiences prefer to stay away from cinema halls and as Muslim viewers form a large part of the total multiplex going audiences,film makers were hesitant to release their films,but now filmy season is back and this Diwali and Eid there are three Bollywood films that have released,one of which is director David Dhawan`s “Shaadi No.1”.The director who is known as the king of comedy has been ‘laughing’ all the way due to his last film`s success,”Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya”.Will he repeat the same kind of success during this festive season,too,so that his Eid and Diwali can get even more exciting?

Puja Films.”Shaadi No.1”,produced by Vashu Bhagnani and directed by David Dhawan,stars Sanjay Dutt,Fardeen Khan,Zayed Khan,Sharman Joshi,Ayesha Takia,Esha Deol,Soha Ali Khan,Aarti Chabbria,Sophie,Riya Sen and Rajpal Yadav.This multi-starrer film had promised to make its viewers laugh throughout the film,but unfortunately it failed to do so because this film is inspired from several other comedy films made in Bollywood and when you have already heard a joke,you don`t laugh the next time you listen to it. Same is the problem with this film.

”Shaadi No.1” is the story of three married guys and who happen to be each other`s best friends.These three friends are Raj (Fardeen Khan),Veer (Zayed Khan) and Aryan (Sharman Joshi).These three friends have one common problem and that is their ‘married lives’.None of these men are satisfied with their wives as they don`t seem to have enough time for them.Raj`s wife is Bhavna (Ayesha Takia),who is so much busy in worshipping and doing ‘puja’ all the time (remember Tara Sharma from “Masti”?) that she does not seem to have enough time to ‘entertain’ Raj. Vir`s wife Diya (Esha Deol) wants to become a Bollywood actress and for that purpose she always remains with her Master ji (Rajpal yadav) who keeps on advicing her on everything.As Diya doesn`t get enough time off from her Master ji,Vir`s desires also remain unfulfilled.Aryan`s ‘case’ is actually the worst as his wife,Sonia (Soha Ali Khan) is a very busy person.Sonia is a lawyer and as she is always involved in her work,she doesn`t have enough time to spend with Aryan.Fed up of their lives,these three friends decide to commit suicide (reminded me somewhat of “No Entry”) but end up doing something else.They find a rich businessman,Kothari (Satish Shah),trying to commit suicide,whom these friends help from doing so. When they ask Kothari the reason behind committing suicide,he tells them that he has three daughters,Rekha (Aarti Chhabria),Dimple (Sophie) and Madhuri (Riya Sen),who are living abroad and plan not to get married according to his father`s choice (what a reason for committing suicide!).He asks these three guys to help him by making his daughters falling in love with them and then cheating upon them to discourage them from having love affairs that end up in love marriages (remember that something same happened in ”Baadshah”,when SRK was given the task of cheating upon Twinkel Khanna to discourage her from fallin in love again?).These three guys find this ‘mission’ exciting and decide to accomplish this mission as they are tired of their boring lives and want to do something as exciting as this task for some change,so they leave the country and go to do their task.Raj makes Rekha fall in love with him,Veer makes Dimple fall in love with him and Aryan makes Madhuri fall in love with him.After sometime,these three guys also actually fall in love with these girls and that`s when problems occur.When these guys get back to India their three girlfriends also arrive there and then appears the most threatening figure,Lucky bhaiya (Sanjay Dutt),who is a brother-like figure to Bhavna,Diya and Sonia.Lucky bhaiya is a very intelligent and witty person who immediately notices that there is something wrong with the guys and finds out that they are having extra-marital affairs.He tells their wives about this but they refuse to believe him but the three guys always have to remain very alert so that Lucky does not get them exposed infront of his wives.Now more confusions occur when the wives of these guys befriend their girlfriends not knowing that they are actually their husbands girlfriends.How will these three friends face such situations?

Sanjay Dutt whom we last time saw in a wonderful performance in ”Parineeta” is too loud in this film.His loud Punjabi accent fails to make the viewers laugh and on the contrary it seems very irritating and artificial. We have seen this actor earlier in many comedy films and we know that his comic timing is quite good but David Dhawan fails to extract a good performance from him this time.

Fardeen Khan looks uneasy while doing comedy.When you are performing a comic role,you need to have good comic timing and comic actors are those who have this inborn talent of making people laugh,but Fardeen Khan lacks this talent. He should stick to action roles.I do not mean to say he`s a bad actor but he can`t do comedy well and such things happen with many good actors,like Manisha Koirala who happens to be a very talented actress,still fails to make you laugh when she appears in comedy films or a decent actor such as Bobby deol also fails to make the viewers laugh when he does a comedy film.

Zayed Khan carries the same ‘cool dude’ attitude in this film.The acotr may look very cool,young and energetic but he has to prove himself as a good actor and that will definitely take some time.

Sharman Joshi is the best of the three main heroes of the film.Here is an actor who has the ability of making audiences laugh and that I judged way back in 2001,when his film ”Style” had released.Though,”Style” was a horrible movie,still I could see that this actor has good comic timing.After this film,he will be much in demand by producers or directors making comedy films.

Ayesha Takia is completely wasted and ditto for Soha Ali Khan.Of these three ladies who are playing the wives in the film,Esha Deol gets more footage and she is just about okay.

Aarti Chhabria makes a comeback after a number of B-grade films with Govinda and how! The actress who seemed so innocent and simple is actually wearing skimpy swimming costumes and running on the beach,in this movie.MTV VJ Sophie and Riya Sen are also there to just provide the oomph factor.These three ladies are just mere decoration pieces.

Rajpal Yadav looks cute and does manage to entertain the viewers but the same cannot be said about Satish Shah,who overacts.

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