February 03, 2012 (India)
Hindi
Comedy
This movie does not warrant a review at all. But we saw it for you. A crass, loud attempt at cashing in on the anti-corruption wave hitting the nation, this movie tries to be clever. It could have been a funnier movie had the director respected the audience and not attempted to give us audio cues as to corruption or police atrocity or when bad characters attempt to dupe the seedha saadha bhola bha …
This movie does not warrant a review at all. But we saw it for you. A crass, loud attempt at cashing in on the anti-corruption wave hitting the nation, this movie tries to be clever. It could have been a funnier movie had the director respected the audience and not attempted to give us audio cues as to corruption or police atrocity or when bad characters attempt to dupe the seedha saadha bhola bhala hero, very aptly but very obviously named Bharat.
Set in Bhopal, it stereotypes people there by language and manages to insult everyone in one fell swoop.
the bad guys are really bad, the item number is appaling and completely unnecessary, and the hero is so pathetic, you want to slap him for being so stupid.
Everyone is loud and the localised ‘kya kar riya hai’, ‘ja riya hai’, ‘aa riya hai’ begins to annoy you within fifteen minutes into the film. And the constant reminder of the title of the movie (also title song) each time some form of corruption is illustrated, your head begins to hurt. It is a scary combination of a vuvuzela and Kailash Kher.
Although it makes a point to illustrate how the system is being used to fleece honest people, the movie offers no solution, and the hero ends up looking as stupid and lame as he had started in the beginning of the movie. This is a total waste of time.
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The story is about Bharat who is a cashier in a bank and also plays the part of “Hanuman “in the Ramleela. This role is played by the veteran actor Akshaye Kahnna. In this film Bharat stays with his father Shivnarayan in the scenic city of Bhopal. He is a married young man, who has a loving, caring and doting beautiful wife. This role of Nisha, a school teacher is played by Shriya Saran. However Nisha is a little possessive and always keeps on doubting her husband, even though she really loves him. Thus they have a small and happy family. However Amita, who is a young, sweet beautiful girl working at a call center lives with them, adding to the woes of Nisha. The story however is that Bharat wants to be able to do the role of Lord Ram in the Ramleela after having performed the role of Hanuman for quite some time. However the role in the drama is played by a man called Sattu Tripathi. This man by the virtue of being the brother of the MLA of the area Manku Tripathi holds on to his role for ever, and...
The story is about Bharat who is a cashier in a bank and also plays the part of “Hanuman “in the Ramleela. This role is played by the veteran actor Akshaye Kahnna. In this film Bharat stays with his father Shivnarayan in the scenic city of Bhopal. He is a married young man, who has a loving, caring and doting beautiful wife. This role of Nisha, a school teacher is played by Shriya Saran. However Nisha is a little possessive and always keeps on doubting her husband, even though she really loves him. Thus they have a small and happy family. However Amita, who is a young, sweet beautiful girl working at a call center lives with them, adding to the woes of Nisha. The story however is that Bharat wants to be able to do the role of Lord Ram in the Ramleela after having performed the role of Hanuman for quite some time. However the role in the drama is played by a man called Sattu Tripathi. This man by the virtue of being the brother of the MLA of the area Manku Tripathi holds on to his role for ever, and it becomes almost impossible for Bharat to fulfill his dream of enacting the role of Lord Rama ever. This is because both of these brothers have a personal enmity with Bharat. Next in the film is the role of a fan, whose work is only to provide comfort in summer, and how this fan becomes a very important metaphor in Bharat’s life. It somehow instills a determination in him to teach a lesson to all corrupt people.This makes Bharrat put his Hanuman act together . He then does things which become headlines in newspaper. How through this he unmasks the face of corruption is something we will be able to tell only with the release of the film.
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