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Doubts! Then Fire Him/Her.
Jan 06, 2011 02:37 PM 2154 Views

Have you seen 1998 comic presentation by Kamal Haasan "Chachi 420"? Yes, you must have been, then this film can be considered as the source inspiration for it, known as "Mrs. Doubtfire", which in-turn is based on Anne Fine 1987's novel "Madame Doubtfire". This comic presentation by Chris Columbus is very simple in filming, have the originality feeel, and is garnished by wonderful acting by Robin Williams, Sally Field, Lisa Jakub, Matthew Lawrence and the sweet little girl Mara Wilson. And well supported by Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein and Robert Prosky. This was the original movie, but still I must say "Chachi 420" was a better movie, because it can be considered as an intelligent adaptation, which was comic, and perfectly written for Indian viewers, generating lost of laughs, where the original movie lacks a bit.


It is a story of a troubled couple Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams), Miranda Hillard (Sally Field) and their 3 children, named Lydia (Lisa), Christopher (Matthew) and little girl Natalie (Mara). Daniel is having problem of jobs, and Miranda have to deal with everything, and she files for the divorce, leaving Daniel with only some hours to spend with his children, until he will get a nice job in hand. He made use of his gayish brother Frank's (Harvey) makeup skills, and get converted into a lady named "Mrs Doubtfire", and applies for nanny job in Miranda's home. Miranda's looking another man in Stuart (Pierce Brosnan). In the end he got back some extra hours to spend with his children.


Now, I must say, that this movie is a simple presentation, not much masalas flowing around, which restrict even the comic events, and since I've seen the copied Bollywood movie first, I didn't find this one much entertaining, but it is the original movie, perfect hollywood blockbuster with gem-of-actor Robin Williamsin a disguised lady role, and he did it with perfection, perfect english woman dialogue delivery, perfect expressions and etc. Sally, Lisa, Matthew did their roles well. The little girl Mara looks sweet, whenever she expressed and say some dialogues. Harvey looks great in the gayish image alongwith the comic Tv producer Jonathan Lundy (i.e. Robert Prosky). This beautiful story is adapted for the screen by Randi Mayem Singer, Leslie Dixon and Robin Williams. The makeup was marvellous, Robin looks like a nanny. Background score by Howard Shore is just okay, lacks the moments. Let us do some comparisons. This movie lacks comic scenes as there are in Chachi 420, obviously being a hollywood flick, no songs are here. Harvey is the same role which Johny Walker perfomed in the bollywood flick, and Robert's role is a mixture of Paresh and Amrish Puri, Here the character is just a time-pass, not developed to the potential. Some scenes are taken straight away by Kamal Hassan, which includes, naming of the new nanny character (from a paper's headline), a lady visiting hero's house at the time hero in the dress of nanny too is in the same house and few more, voice and looks of nanny are similar. Ending didn't matched, since here the pair didn't met again at the end. Here there are 3 children instead of 1 in bollywood movie, that 1 sweet girl's character is based on Natalie, for sure. Some great scenes include-




  1. The emotional case scenes




  2. Daniel's calling Miranda's house for the nanny post




  3. His interactions with 3 children




  4. His hating-scenes with Pierce Brosnan's character




  5. The hilarious tea-preparation by Mrs. Doubtfire scene




  6. Dinner confusion scene, where in the same restaurant, Daniel is alongwith Miranada's family in the makeup, and also visiting the TV producer Mr. Lundy as Daniel himself.






All-in-all this movie is a worth watch for once, and give you some great time to pass alongwith your family. Grab a CD/DVD, arrange your family on a cold afternoon/night and watch it with hot popcorns.


GRuchirG.


Will Have You Rolling With Laughter
Aug 06, 2001 12:01 AM 3793 Views

Robin Williams plays Mrs. Doubtfire. So who is Mrs. Doubtfire? Mrs. Doubtfire is a character that Robin William's character creates in this movie.


Robin William's charcter in this movie is getting divorced from his wife (played by Sally Field). His wife gets custody of their three children because he does not have a job to support them. In order to see his kids more often, he comes up with a plan to see them every day. With the help of his makeup artist brother, they create Mrs. Doubtfire. Robin's soon to be ex-wife, hires him as the kids nanny, not knowing that is really her ex-husband in disguise. The kids, however, after awhile figure out that it is really their father in disguise, but vow to keep his secret so they can see their father more often.


This movie will keep you laughing and may even shed a few tears to your eyes. If you enjoy Robin Williams you won't want to miss him in this movie.


MR YA MRS?
Feb 28, 2001 10:59 PM 2488 Views

I have read somewhere that this film owes its origins to certain aspects of Robin Williams' personal life.To what extent that is true,one doesn't know.However here goes...


There is this happy-go-lucky man who is into showbiz.He has two children and a domineering but well-earning wife.Owing to his somewhat erratic ways,the man can't keep a job.Yet he loves his kids.He is thrown out by his wife.However,to keep close to the bachhalog and make bread he comes back as Mrs Doubtfire.She is a super-efficient house-lady who has this tendency to relieve herself standing up.The kids recognise their father,who is really well made-up.


Meanwhile,the truant father finds employment.As things settle the patra famillias is united with his brood again.


Winner of Oscar for Make-up.


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A classic comedy!!
Feb 28, 2001 12:23 PM 2499 Views

This movie is one of my favourites !! The concept of the movie goes back to ''Tootsie'' but then I was always a sucker for comedies !!! And Robin Williams became famous after this movie !!!


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This movie is about a married couple whose realtionship is going haywire but both the parents love their kids , the father more so !!! The father makes a living by making people laugh a while the mom is in a high profile job.


The father wanst to take life easy but the mom wants to bring in discipline and there starts the clash !!!


This family consists of three kids who are confused by the break up of their parents...


Now after the divorce the father is restricted to weekend visits. He is not given the custody of his three kids as he is umemployed and he cannot suport them. This frustrates him and he comes up with an idea where he can be with his kids as well as have a job !!! he applies for a job of a nanny in his house .. and he plans out a disguise of an 60 plus year old lady with the help of his brother.


So the father disguised as a nanny gets the job and then starts the humourous episodes with the kids and the mother.


Pierce Brosnan comes into the picture who tries to woo the mother ( sally Field).Robin Williams, now the reliable housekeeper becomes his arch enemy and this results in another bout of funny incidents.


At the end the Robin Williams is caught with the disguise and that is also a very funny incident..He gets drunk and overbooks himself with two appointments in the same place and at the same time. One is with his potential to be employer and the other with his family.


He tries to meet the two people at the same time which results in change of his disguise as his to be employer knows him for himself. He gets drunk with his employer and the process of changing into his disguise becomes very confusing and well he is caught red handed.


You have to see it to believe it !!!! the wife gets very Mad but she is convinced that he did all this so that he could be close to his kids.... this is accepted and at the end ,after all the comedy is ended ,Robin williams is offered a very lucrative career on the TV with this disguise and alls well thats ends well.


He comes to some terms with his ex-wife and his kids love him as always.


Anyway its a very clean comedy ...


make sure you watch it with your family !!! its a good watch !!!!


A Good Movie
Nov 22, 2000 09:03 PM 2588 Views

This huge 1993 hit for Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus (Home Alone), based on a novel called Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine, stars Williams as a loving but flaky father estranged from his frustrated wife (Sally Field). Devastated by a court order limiting his time with the children, Williams's character disguises himself as a warm, old British nanny who becomes the kids' best friend. As with Dustin Hoffman's performance in Tootsie, Williams's drag act--buried under layers of latex and padding--is the show, and everything and everyone else on screen serves his sometimes frantic role. Since that's the case, it's fortunate that Williams is Williams, and his performance is terribly funny at times and exceptionally believable in those scenes where his character misses his children. Playing Williams's brother, a professional makeup artist, Harvey Fierstein has a good support role in a bright sequence where he tries a number of feminine looks on Williams before settling on Mrs. Doubtfire's visage.


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