Saturday, March 29, 2008
One Two Three
Thinking up a good idea is just part of the movie battle—what to do with the idea is the tough part.
Ashwani Dhir's One Two Three (takes the prize for unimaginative title) is about three disparate men with the same name—Laxmi Narayan, who check into the same hotel and cause major confusion.
The situation is rife for a really good comedy of errors, but Dhir is quite content to dip into a bag of vulgarities and turn out a cringe-making film, instead of a funny one—his inspiration clearly being Kya Kool Hain Hum rather than a clean comedy like Angoor.
When one of the three Laxmi Narayans (Paresh Rawal) is a lingerie salesman, it is obvious which track the film is going to move on. It's a miracle that Rawal manages to lend a certain befuddled simplicity to the character, who, due a mix-up at the hotel's reception desk, thinks he is meeting a lingerie designer, but the girl (Sameera Reddy—no improvement) thinks he has come to look at a car he intends to buy. The barrage of double entendre that follows is not even remotely amusing.
One of the Laxmi Narayans (Tussar Kapoor) is an aspiring gangster, who, gets the picture of the lingerie designer (Esha Deol), instead of the don (Mukesh Tiwari) he is supposed to kill. And the don, captures the third Laxmi Nayaran (Suniel Shetty), thinking he is the hitman sent to shoot him.
On paper, it sounds better than it is, but on film, it's exasperating, because Dhir had gone overboard in trying to make all the characters weird. Like the don adds an 's' to every word, the Suniel Shetty fellow is a moron who asks too many questions, there's one henchman who talks like old actor Jeevan, another who lisps and enough gay jokes to invite a lawsuit from the alternate sexuality lobby!
There's a Haryanvi female cop (Neetu Chandra), who is no better than an item girl for all the footage she gets, and Upen Patel-Tanisha are reduced to junior artistes.
Dhir ends the film in Priyadarshan fashion with all the characters – too many of them—gathering at one place and squabbling over a stolen diamond.
The checklist would read 'not applicable' for performances, music, camerawork, etc. A few chuckles, few and far between, may not be worth the price of a ticket.
Ashwani Dhir's One Two Three (takes the prize for unimaginative title) is about three disparate men with the same name—Laxmi Narayan, who check into the same hotel and cause major confusion.
The situation is rife for a really good comedy of errors, but Dhir is quite content to dip into a bag of vulgarities and turn out a cringe-making film, instead of a funny one—his inspiration clearly being Kya Kool Hain Hum rather than a clean comedy like Angoor.
When one of the three Laxmi Narayans (Paresh Rawal) is a lingerie salesman, it is obvious which track the film is going to move on. It's a miracle that Rawal manages to lend a certain befuddled simplicity to the character, who, due a mix-up at the hotel's reception desk, thinks he is meeting a lingerie designer, but the girl (Sameera Reddy—no improvement) thinks he has come to look at a car he intends to buy. The barrage of double entendre that follows is not even remotely amusing.
One of the Laxmi Narayans (Tussar Kapoor) is an aspiring gangster, who, gets the picture of the lingerie designer (Esha Deol), instead of the don (Mukesh Tiwari) he is supposed to kill. And the don, captures the third Laxmi Nayaran (Suniel Shetty), thinking he is the hitman sent to shoot him.
On paper, it sounds better than it is, but on film, it's exasperating, because Dhir had gone overboard in trying to make all the characters weird. Like the don adds an 's' to every word, the Suniel Shetty fellow is a moron who asks too many questions, there's one henchman who talks like old actor Jeevan, another who lisps and enough gay jokes to invite a lawsuit from the alternate sexuality lobby!
There's a Haryanvi female cop (Neetu Chandra), who is no better than an item girl for all the footage she gets, and Upen Patel-Tanisha are reduced to junior artistes.
Dhir ends the film in Priyadarshan fashion with all the characters – too many of them—gathering at one place and squabbling over a stolen diamond.
The checklist would read 'not applicable' for performances, music, camerawork, etc. A few chuckles, few and far between, may not be worth the price of a ticket.
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