Phir Hera Pheri ho gaya

The Mumbai-Pune expressway is the best thing that could have happened to the junta that shuttled between the 2 frequently. And even better is the upsurge of many private and public bus travel companies that promise a relaxed and comfortable journey all the way. And most of them do deliver...except for a very sore point... video on the coaches.
Now, I do like the concept of watching the movies on the go....but what i like even better is if I could choose whether i want to watch the video or not.... and forget watching, whether i want to listen to the movie track or not. Unfortunately, the bus travel industry has yet to cater to that requirement, and as a result, the unfortunate me still has to go through the ignominy of hearing silently and watching movies that would make their blood boil.
One such movie that I had to suffer through was "Phir Hera Pheri'. Obviously, the movie would always be compared to the original(which was a total laugh riot), and hence expectations would always be high, and sometimes high expectations would lead to a very average film being decried as a very below par one. But i started watching Phir Hera Pheri with very low expectations,(in fact was not too keen to watch the movie at all...coz maybe i was already disappointed with recent Priyadarshan kind of comedies) and the movie yet went going downhill from shot 1.
Neeraj Vohra seems to be emulating the recent form of his guru Priyadarshan in delivering loud humour in a poorly scripted and edited movie effort. The movie tries to start off where the original version left off.... and immediately goes of the rail. Craziness that was an essential part of the original version and was hilarious coz it was logically linked to a certain extent, goes on a mindless trail and results in a really heavy head. And then when the script writer ran out of ideas, all they did i guess was borrow the DVD of 'Lock Stock and 2 smoking Barrels' from the nearyby DVD store, and simply decide to weave the entire plot around it.
Not only did the they lift the idea , but most of the scenes are frame to frame copy. Suddenly, Sanjay gupta has got rivals to the title of DVD director in Bollywood.
But, if you wanted to really laugh, then forget the poorly scripted and handled version of the Lock, Stock Plot, go and watch the original....if u can handle, dry, saracastic humour, u will not be able to handle ur stomach from splitting with laughter. With the bollywood version, its the head that will take up the splitting burden.
As far as the acting is concerned...
If Paresh rawal was at his timimg best in Hera Pheri, he looks like a drag in this version. I didnt find baburao at all funny in this version. But maybe, the scriptwriter didnt give him enough funny lines....and thought Paresh Rawal could still do wonder with mediocre lines. And ,still dont know how people cast sunil shetty as an actor...forget casting him in a comic role. So the less said on him, the better.The only bright spot is Akshay Kumar, i guess, with his sense of timing ....but then thats about it. The 2 glamour dolls in the movie....the liberated women of the millenium do nothing but add the required female presence. Rajpal Yadav, Sharat Saxena and Rajpal Yadav try to be funny...but I was not laughing. Maybe the definition of humour needs to be explained to Neeraj Vohra and his cast.
All in All, Lavin advises to give a movie a miss...you are not losing anything at all. Better, invest the money in watching 'Hera Pheri' or 'Lock, Stock and 2 smoking barrels'. That would be money well spent.

I am back again this time of the year to save you a
ton of money....
Money that can be better used to feed the poor in teh
country (I am poor allright)
Money that can be better invested for a rainy day
(invest on me and u will get good returns...sometime
in ur life)
Money that can be used to buying a asset (I am an
asset all right)
Money that could contribute to our economy, and not
teh american one (I am very much a part of the Indian
economy)

Ok..ok will stop about the resource depoyment
alternatives, and get back to the main point in
question... saving the money thingy.

And heres how it goes:
Dont even for a moments sake.....think or make the
effort of thinking of spending ur money on a Mission
Impossible movie (a.k.a MI3) ..... and if u do so, you
would go through the same mixed emotion of humour (coz
the movie was unintentionally hilarious) and agony
(coz there is a point beyond which unintentional
humour starts jarring on ur pysche) that i did....and
especially when i have paid a more than normal rate to
go and see a special premiere show.
I can see a progressive decline in MI movies...the 1st
one was best of the lot (though must admit , I had to
watch it twice to understand it 8-9 yrs back)...
the 2nd one was a pure Hindi movie...but atleast it
had good stunts.....with the cool bikey thingy in the
end.
The 3rd one....has denigrated to an abysmal
level...esp about something called a rabbit
foot...imagine going through an entire movie trying to
get something that looked like a flask containing
tea....and then they dont even expalin whats it all
about. If I thought Fanaa's concept of a bomb trigger
was childish, MI3's concept of rabit foot was
infantile (if there is ever such a word ).

Lavin says keep ur money in ur pocket, or refer back
to the alternatives provided at the beginning of the
mail to spend it better. Either ways u wont regret it.