Directed by : Sajid Khan
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3036740/
In case any Sajid Khan fan (if any) gets upset with this post where I am mostly gonna write a lot about what I hated in the movie (and that’s a hell lot), let me remind that his first two movies Hey Baby and specially Housefull were liked by me.
Humshakals begins with this note :
A wise man once told me.. Err… Err.. Err.. Sorry guys, I forgot what he told me - Sajid Khan
My guess is that he told Sajid, how to not make bad films and Sajid being Sajid didn’t pay attention.
The plot of movie revolves around Ashok (Saif Ali Khan) and Kumar (Riteish Deshmukh). Ashok is a rich guy, with a ill father who is in coma. Thereby, his mama Kans (Ram Kapoor) wants to grab the opportunity to snatch Ashok’s property, and the only way suggested for it by Kans friend, who is also a doctor (played by Nawab Shah) is to prove Ashok is mental. Ashok along with Kumar fall into trap, reach mental asylum where there humshakals are also present in different ward of asylum. How these 4 encounter each other, and how Sajid Khan brings the 3rd humshakal into the narrative, trying to bring out comedy (or headache) is what the rest story is about. And yea there are 3 actresses in movie who are dumb almost all the time, Tamannah leading them.
Some interesting points :
• The opening scene begins with Ashok’s comedy acts on stage. Yes he is rich, but can’t he have a weird hobby. Thankfully, every person listening to his jokes stands up and gets out of place in disgust. Oh wait, on a new day, when almost all people are gone, there is a loud clap by someone, the camera pans and its our very own Tamannah, who as I told leads the dumbest girl category, she loves the dumb jokes of Ashok, and thereby we have a jodi dumb meets dumb.. Eg of one of Ashok’s comedy lines (among many torturous ones) - You are so witty (V.T), and You are Churchgate.
• Since Ram Kapoor plays a villain, there has to be big scary laugh and its done twice by him almost tearing your ear-drums.
• If you seen that ever-famous Ashok Kumar scene from ‘Clerk’, there’s something similar attempted by Sajid in one scene that is worth calling guilty pleasure.. Ashok and Kumar’s humshakals enters the big mansion of original ones, and there they play with the hospital machines lying to aid his father lying in coma, like a video game and his father keeps getting up and down as the number changes in machine.
• Sajid cleverly uses a joke on his own film ‘Himmatwala’, hoping atleast that will give laugh to people who don’t laugh in rest of movie. Not bad.
• Saif should forget trying to attempt mimicry ever in his life, how terrible he is when he tries Pran, infact he couldn’t even imitate Sajid either. In that department, Riteish was superb, his Dilip Kumar one was fantastic.
• There’s a background of ‘Cocaine ke paranthe’ and ‘Vodka ke paranthe’ when the characters mistakenly make them…
• Two gays shown as such despos, didn’t knew that they behave like that.
• A character listens shut up as ‘Shirt up’.
• Humshakal of Kans is termed dangerous patient in asylum, and therefore kept at a distant and safe place. But when Ashok and Kumar make him angry accidentally, he breaks the glass. My que was ‘how the hell was this safe secured place and why didn’t he ran away before doing the same act’.
• And this humshakal of Kans, his anger can be stopped only in one way. Give him a lollypop. Phew, what a thought Sajid and the special team of writers.
• Sajid’s obsession in a night dress song doesn’t end, another version of Papa jag jayega, this time its called ‘Barbaad raat’.
• The office staff of Ashok aren’t less dumb, when a character hits the fire alarm in front of them… they act like blind and still run away thinking its real.
• And of course the girl getups by the trio where they try to woo the humshakals. At that point, you can only wonder what made these 3 actors sign this film.
• There’s Satish Shah who hams all the time, being admirer of Hitler and some other guys who I don’t remember. When was the last time he was made to act this loudly. Feel sad for him.
• In the climax, we see one by one characters sitting on a chair that acts like unstoppable. My que was ‘if chair is unstoppable, atleast try to get off it instead of acting like statues’. Silly humor at its best.
• When did Esha Gupta fall in love with the humshakal of Ashok, nobody knows when the film ends.
Himesh Reshammiya music is terrible, even Caller Tune isn’t worth listening for me.
Only performance that doesn’t totally irritate and not give you headache, is of Riteish Deshmukh. Its a familiar genre for him, and thereby even in a crap script he finds few scenes worth applauding, like his dog act, his mimicry and one of his conversation with Bipasha.
Tamannah looks hot, but she would better off doing a role that suits her, unless she is dumb in real life too. Bipasha is hardly seen in movie, and she would be happy after watching how bad movie is. Esha Gupta is wasted too.
Overall, Humshakals will not only irritate you, bore you, give you headache .. it will also make you believe that there’s no chance of expecting a decent entertainer by Sajid Khan in future. One of the film’s song ‘Hum pagal nahi hai bhaiyya.. hamara dimaag kharab hai’ aptly describes the mental state of Sajid Khan, and who knows that line could had been his inspiration to make this entire movie.
Verdict : 0.5/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3036740/
In case any Sajid Khan fan (if any) gets upset with this post where I am mostly gonna write a lot about what I hated in the movie (and that’s a hell lot), let me remind that his first two movies Hey Baby and specially Housefull were liked by me.
Humshakals begins with this note :
A wise man once told me.. Err… Err.. Err.. Sorry guys, I forgot what he told me - Sajid Khan
My guess is that he told Sajid, how to not make bad films and Sajid being Sajid didn’t pay attention.
The plot of movie revolves around Ashok (Saif Ali Khan) and Kumar (Riteish Deshmukh). Ashok is a rich guy, with a ill father who is in coma. Thereby, his mama Kans (Ram Kapoor) wants to grab the opportunity to snatch Ashok’s property, and the only way suggested for it by Kans friend, who is also a doctor (played by Nawab Shah) is to prove Ashok is mental. Ashok along with Kumar fall into trap, reach mental asylum where there humshakals are also present in different ward of asylum. How these 4 encounter each other, and how Sajid Khan brings the 3rd humshakal into the narrative, trying to bring out comedy (or headache) is what the rest story is about. And yea there are 3 actresses in movie who are dumb almost all the time, Tamannah leading them.
Some interesting points :
• The opening scene begins with Ashok’s comedy acts on stage. Yes he is rich, but can’t he have a weird hobby. Thankfully, every person listening to his jokes stands up and gets out of place in disgust. Oh wait, on a new day, when almost all people are gone, there is a loud clap by someone, the camera pans and its our very own Tamannah, who as I told leads the dumbest girl category, she loves the dumb jokes of Ashok, and thereby we have a jodi dumb meets dumb.. Eg of one of Ashok’s comedy lines (among many torturous ones) - You are so witty (V.T), and You are Churchgate.
• Since Ram Kapoor plays a villain, there has to be big scary laugh and its done twice by him almost tearing your ear-drums.
• If you seen that ever-famous Ashok Kumar scene from ‘Clerk’, there’s something similar attempted by Sajid in one scene that is worth calling guilty pleasure.. Ashok and Kumar’s humshakals enters the big mansion of original ones, and there they play with the hospital machines lying to aid his father lying in coma, like a video game and his father keeps getting up and down as the number changes in machine.
• Sajid cleverly uses a joke on his own film ‘Himmatwala’, hoping atleast that will give laugh to people who don’t laugh in rest of movie. Not bad.
• Saif should forget trying to attempt mimicry ever in his life, how terrible he is when he tries Pran, infact he couldn’t even imitate Sajid either. In that department, Riteish was superb, his Dilip Kumar one was fantastic.
• There’s a background of ‘Cocaine ke paranthe’ and ‘Vodka ke paranthe’ when the characters mistakenly make them…
• Two gays shown as such despos, didn’t knew that they behave like that.
• A character listens shut up as ‘Shirt up’.
• Humshakal of Kans is termed dangerous patient in asylum, and therefore kept at a distant and safe place. But when Ashok and Kumar make him angry accidentally, he breaks the glass. My que was ‘how the hell was this safe secured place and why didn’t he ran away before doing the same act’.
• And this humshakal of Kans, his anger can be stopped only in one way. Give him a lollypop. Phew, what a thought Sajid and the special team of writers.
• Sajid’s obsession in a night dress song doesn’t end, another version of Papa jag jayega, this time its called ‘Barbaad raat’.
• The office staff of Ashok aren’t less dumb, when a character hits the fire alarm in front of them… they act like blind and still run away thinking its real.
• And of course the girl getups by the trio where they try to woo the humshakals. At that point, you can only wonder what made these 3 actors sign this film.
• There’s Satish Shah who hams all the time, being admirer of Hitler and some other guys who I don’t remember. When was the last time he was made to act this loudly. Feel sad for him.
• In the climax, we see one by one characters sitting on a chair that acts like unstoppable. My que was ‘if chair is unstoppable, atleast try to get off it instead of acting like statues’. Silly humor at its best.
• When did Esha Gupta fall in love with the humshakal of Ashok, nobody knows when the film ends.
Himesh Reshammiya music is terrible, even Caller Tune isn’t worth listening for me.
Only performance that doesn’t totally irritate and not give you headache, is of Riteish Deshmukh. Its a familiar genre for him, and thereby even in a crap script he finds few scenes worth applauding, like his dog act, his mimicry and one of his conversation with Bipasha.
Tamannah looks hot, but she would better off doing a role that suits her, unless she is dumb in real life too. Bipasha is hardly seen in movie, and she would be happy after watching how bad movie is. Esha Gupta is wasted too.
Overall, Humshakals will not only irritate you, bore you, give you headache .. it will also make you believe that there’s no chance of expecting a decent entertainer by Sajid Khan in future. One of the film’s song ‘Hum pagal nahi hai bhaiyya.. hamara dimaag kharab hai’ aptly describes the mental state of Sajid Khan, and who knows that line could had been his inspiration to make this entire movie.
Verdict : 0.5/5
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