TIME PASS MOVIE..... Review on Hulchul

'Hulchul' once again proves Priyan's brilliant sense of humour and even races past his earlier hits, 'Hera Pheri' and 'Hungama'. He has thrown logic to the winds and set sail. So a word of caution for the viewers - leave your brains behind at home while watching it.

Hulchul is a story of two estranged families, the premier family of a small town Matkapur, headed by fiery Angaarchand (Amrish Puri), an influential landlord, pitted against the family headed by lakhmidevi (Lakshmi), a rich landlady of the neighbouring village Anpura. Angaarchand and his family of four sons (Jackie Shroff, Paresh Rawal, Arbaaz Khan and Akshaye Khanna)have taken a vow to stay away from women owing to a past family tragedy.

Between Amrish Puri family and Lakshmi family there is an old Dushmani

So one of them was looking for opportunity to crash the other

Amrish puri's sons destroy everything comes into their way and Lakshmi's sons doesn't do anything at all

So she pushes her granddaughter Kareena to act like she is in love with Akshay

Until they really fall in love, from that moment the problems get more complicated between the two families

As luck would have it, Angaarchand's youngest son, Jai (Akshaye Khanna), and Lakshmidevi's grand-daughter, Anjali (Kareena Kapoor), are studying in the same college.

For obvious reasons, Jai and Anjali pretend to fall in love with each other after their initial rivalry. Lucky (Arshad Warsi) , who is Jai's best friend acts as a mediator. It wouldn't be a Hindi film if Jai and Anjali didn't actually fall in love. But they are aware of their family feud proving to be a major hurdle in the way of their love. How they overcome this forms the crux of the film. If this sounds like just another love story then it isn't! Here comes the director's expertise. He has given it a different twist altogether making it not just a love story but also a family feud and war within families. Love triumphs in the end but in a very non-cliched manner.

The mangalsutra scene when everyone is trying to get their hands on it is hilarious. There are so many other scenes that are truly funny but it's not possible to mention them all. The initial scenes between Kareena and Akshaye before they actually fall in love, scenes between Akshaye and Arshad Warsi, and also the duo's interactions with Akshaye's brothers bring forth peals of laughter from the audience. Arshad dominates the comedy track in the first half while Paresh Rawal takes over in the second half. This reminds us of the scene in which Akshaye and Arshad unearth Paresh Rawal's wife of seven years, a well-guarded secret. The entire track in which Rawal tries to convince his other two brothers and his father that he is single is hilarious too. One can keep citing the various funny scenes in the film.

Now about the performances- Paresh Rawal is brilliant as usual although he shares the comedy track with Arshad Warsi and Akshaye Khanna. Akshaye displays a superb comic timing.....Arshad Warsi is awesome.....Kareena Kapoor looks lovely and delivers a competent performance although she doesn't have much to do in the second half. The rest are just fine.

The music is just about okay. The two songs that stand out are 'Ishq mein pyar mein' and 'Rafta Rafta'.

But I think Hungama is better than Hulchul cuz nothing ruined the movie except the screaming and fighting and shouting I think the movie would look good if Priydarshan decreased the fighting scene.