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Maan Gaye Mughall-e-Azam
22 Aug 2008, 2156 hrs IST, Nikhat Kazmi, TNN
Maan
Gaye Mughall-e-Azam
(comedy)
Cast:
Rahul Bose, Mallika Sherawat, Paresh Rawal, Kay Kay
Menon
Direction:
Sanjay
Chhel
Critics
rating:
A theatre company in a small town
in Goa helps a RAW officer (Rahul Bose) to stall the Mumbai blasts in 1993. Now
that could have been a helluva kickass comedy, specially since it had some of
the stalwarts of Bollywood (Paresh Rawal, Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon) to rely on.
But it is the slack narrative
that does the film in, creating a lack lustre laugh show that lives only in
moments: mostly through the puns, intended and unintended, and Sanjay Chhel's
trademark rib-tickling dialogues. However, a few funny lines don't make a
Jaane Bhi Do
Yaaron
, do
they?
The film ostensibly tries
to recreate the flavour of the Naseer-Ravi Baswani-Satish Shah socio-political
satire that redefined comedy a few decades ago.
Paresh Rawal is the lead actor
in the theatre group, playing Akbar to his wife, Mallika Sherawat's Anarkali in
the nautanki,
Mughal-e-Azam
.
Soon, he ends up playing a don in an off-stage drama, at the behest of Rahul
Bose, an officer who is chasing the Bhais when he's not having a bit on the side
with Akbar's wife.
Of course,
the wife also insists she's doing it all for desh-prem, as she flits from one
boudoir to another in an attempt to steal secrets from the underworld
goons.
Watch out for Kay Kay
playing a ghazal singer-cum jehadi who's definitely having a bad hair day.
Actually funny! But Rahul Bose doesn't seem to be having to much fun and looks
quite lost with his blonde wig and singlet. Paresh Rawal's watchable, as always.
And Mallika Sherawat's perfectly silly.
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