Thursday, August 7, 2014

Missed Reviews : July

Phew, another month when I didn’t write any reviews.. so once again, posting few lines on all the films I saw..


Bobby Jasoos :
What you want from a suspense film is that the reason why you were glued towards the story should be a valid and surprising one which you didn’t think of. Unfortunately, Bobby Jasoos gives a climax that may surprise us but only make us say why did we show interest in the movie if we were to get this. Two things to love about movie was, Vidya Balan who finally gave a performance to adore, her various disguises done with ease, love that dialogue ‘kasrat kiya kar, itne mein hi haanf raha hai’. And hyderbadi lingo used throughout movie was other aspect to love, finally I have another language after Gujrati (ref. Ram Leela) to love a lot. Bobby Jasoos as it looked from trailer to me, turns out to be average detective movie. Lets keep fingers crossed for remaining 2, Jagga Jasoos and Detective Byomkesh Bakshi (high hopes from this one).
Verdict : 2.5/5


Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya :
If you are making a modern tribute to DDLJ, then does it mean that the goodbye scene will be changed to a love-making one. Not for me..  Some film-makers are too obsessed with classics. Either they will re-make it with changes here or there. Or they will make a film that is either a spoof or a tribute to the original. Yet its the lead pair performance and excellent dialogue writing that makes this a very pleasant entertainer. Varun especially shines in a role that offers him to woo a girl, be naughty and then become the mad lover with good comic timing. I love Samjhawan (Arijit version). Alia didn’t disappoint either in her acting. Ashutosh plays a different kind of dad pretty well (not total angry strict like Amrish Puri). Climax is weakly directed, as you wonder where the hell Siddharth Shukla vanish, and a un-wanted Srk imitation to end the already tribute film for him. In Supporting cast, I loved Sahil Vaid, who got some great punchlines and kept humor going in tense situations. Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya is a good entertainer, but by no means a worthy tribute to DDLJ.
Verdict : 3/5


Hate Story 2 :
I always have said this, when your revenge story deals with death of one of lead pair, then their romantic plot must be strong enough so that you are there with the lead seeking revenge. Thats not the case here. The weak link is Jay Bhanushali, and also the writing that involves their romantic scenes. Only worthy scene is the ‘Aaj phir tumpe pyar aaya hai’ which is my fav track from movie. Editing is terrible and at times hurts your eyes with the way past and present are interlinked again and again. Pink Lips is forced into narrative and is funnily picturised. The film fails on the erotic level too. Sushant Singh (not Rajput) is the one who delivers best performance in movie, though I wonder how such a fierce person suddenly becomes so afraid of Surveen in the final portions, thanks to poor writing. Surveen does have a good debut, nothing special though. Hate Story won’t work if you are looking for revenge drama, nor for erotic lovers.
Verdict : 2/5


Amit Sahni Ki List :
The problem I usually find in rom-com movies is that they start off very well, and then in attempt to build drama, end up as just another movie that had some great fun moments. This film falls in that category too, unfortunately. Good thing is Vir Das after his last few films, gives a good comical performance, which I expect from him in every movie his features in. 1st half specially gives him ample scope to make you laugh. In 2nd half, there’s too much of seriousness and a new plot you don’t really feel like getting invested into. The best scene comes when that plot ends with a funnily done break up scene through presentation (reminded me of Vir Das scene of Namaste London).  Music is terrible, only decent song ‘what the F’ comes in end credits. Amit Sahni ki List is watchable, though chances are it will disappoint you in the end.
Verdict : 2.5/5


Kick :
Had huge expectations from movie, and thought this won’t totally be a movie that’s gonna use Salman stardom but will make the story rule. Unfortunately, the writers felt differently. They wrote dialogues that has ‘Kick’ word used throughout the movie. And the 1st half that has some un-wanted comedy. The police station scene (Sanjay Mishra comic timing is always spot on) and the role-reversal where Salman interviews Saurabh Shukla were best. The moment Devil character is introduced, it gives the movie a much wanted kick (oops). Almost all action sequences are bad, wonder why didnt they hire a good action director.. Editing is loose, though I love how through fast cuts he shows the badly directed 3 robberies of Devil with a excellent background theme (signature tune for Devil was my fav thing from movie), and make it look cool. Also, the cycle chase scene is nicely cut, the only action sequence I would say I did like including that train stunt (even though its over the top). What I didn’t like was the way social drama is added into the narration, came more like forceful and that scene where the parents of suffering kid fall from building was plain silly. Salman shines in both characters he plays, but is once again let down by a weak script. Nawazuddin is brilliant, love the laugh and Tok he does (which is brilliantly imitated by Salman in climax), how well he ups his level in his probably 1st all out commercial movie. Randeep Hooda I would say is a better likable cop instead of Abhishek Bachchan from Dhoom series since the roles are similar. Love his drunk scene (I just loved similar act in Jannat 2 too), ‘Main isiliye nahi peeta, chadti hi nahi hai’. Jacqueline does well in 1st half, but hardly gets any screen time in 2nd half, her mad dance in ‘Jhumme ki raat’ song was jaw dropping, had there been some more tough steps it would had bettered Katrina’s Ishq dance. Music by Himesh Reshammiya for a change was good, my picks were Tu hi Tu (female version) and Yaar Na Miley (love the final male part), though Nargis yet again fails to dance well, would like her to stick with acting and not item numbers. Rajat Arora as a dialogue writer gives some good punchlines, but I was expecting much more. Kick as a entertainer provides a lot to enjoy, but if you apply logic you probably won’t like anything in movie. Kick is definitely better than Jai Ho, Bodyguard or Dabangg2.
Verdict : 3/5 


Thursday, July 10, 2014

Trailer : Haider



Vishal Bharadwaj movies always have a special corner for me, just like Anurag Kashyap or Imtiaz Ali movies have. Though, his last film ‘Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola’ wasn’t upto the level mainly for wrong casting of leads. Going by the trailer of ‘Haider’, it looks like he’s got everything right this time perfectly, and might well give another 7 Khoon Maaf or Kaminey kind of movies which I madly loved.

Lots of stunning visuals from Kashmir, plus we see Shahid transform through various looks as he seeks revenge of his father. Based on Shakespeare Hamlet (yet to read), keen to see how much Shahid gets his act right, specially the one where he gets totally insane, like the shot at 2:00 where he is imitating shooting himself or the dialogue scene ‘hello mike testing, 123, awaaz aa rahi hai aap logo ko.. hello hello o o o’. Watch his expressions in 1:48 shot, killer.

Needless to say, the best part of trailer (there are hell lot to be frank) is Haider i.e Shahid telling Shraddha about his intentions, ‘To be or Not to be’ (quote from Hamlet) ..

For a change, Shraddha is looking so different and maybe the level of her acting will be high too or atleast I am assuming at the moment.

The cast is amazing, with trustable actors like Tabu, Kay Kay Menon and Irrfan Khan (in a special appearance as ghost). I hope Tabu-Shahid romantic mother-son plot is restrained..

Not to forget, music will be by Vishal Bharadwaj and there are 10 songs with lyrics by Gulzar. The rock song used in the trailer totally sets the mood for Haider’s journey to revenge.
Ek phoonk se miya, sab udh gaya dhuan, woh jo saans ki ek phaans thi, woh nikal gayi jo kharaash thi. 

Still don’t know what part those actors in 1:04 shot are playing. But looks like it will be mad and insane…

Its been just a month when I said Ek Villain is best trailer of 2014, and now Haider has overtaken it, there’s nothing to not like in this trailer, absolutely nothing.


Dil ki agar sunu, toh hai
Dimaag ki, toh hai nahi
Jaan lun, ki jaan dun
Main rahoon, ki main nahi. 

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Trailer : Gone Girl



This is the 2nd trailer of the movie to come out few days back, and its increased the curiosity to watch the movie even more. I will be reading the book on which this movie is based, and since the final act i.e the ending is different in movie, it would make a great view specially after knowing through twitter feeds that the ending in the book was a big let down.

Ben Affleck may be receiving a lot of flak in recent few months for his upcoming Batman movie, but I doubt people would like to miss this movie where he looks to be perfectly suited to the role. Its hard to tell whether he is behind his wife gone missing or there’s a lot more to it.  And I like the way Rosamund delivers her dialogues,  a mysterious touch is felt in it.

I have liked David Fincher’s last two movies, and he is a director worth having expectations from.



Nick, man of my dreams
This man of mine, may kill me.. 
This man may kill me …
This many may truly ….
Kill me. 

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Mid-Year Report : 2014

Half of the year is gone by, and already we have many films that we loved and some we hated. Listing what clicked and what didn’t click for me..


Top3 Hindi Films  : 



Queen

Kangana’s best performance ever  + Amit Trivedi’s music that time and again takes film to a altogether higher level.

2 States
Amrita Singh’s supporting act playing a Punjabi mother so efficiently, plus the narrative that comes to main ‘parents should approve boy-girl, and their parents’ part quickly. And of course that brilliant bg during Ronit Roy scenes. Unlike everyone I liked Arjun more than Alia (she looked sexy in saree).

Ek Villain
Riteish Deshmukh’s best career performance, Siddharth once again impresses. Shraddha has amazing screen presence (despite still average actor), Mohit Suri’s good direction and non-linear narrative, and ofcourse the music as the main USP. Special mention to the edit cuts from past to present with female alaap of ‘galliyan’.



Worst Hindi Films : 



Ragini MMS2
Sunny Leone in yet another crap movie after that Jism2. This movie makes 1st part look so good.

Humshakals
Sajid Khan back after Himmatwala, to give another movie that tests your tolerance level.

The Xpose
New movie of Himesh, which doesn’t change the fact that Himesh can’t act, and even his music/songs are not likable anymore.



Top3 Albums :



Ek Villain
Except for ‘Hamdard' (which aint a  bad song either, just doesn’t work for me), I love every song of this album. Favs being ‘Banjaara’, ‘Awari’ and ‘Galliyaan’ (female one). And I feel Banjaara will be tough to beat as my song of year, for even A R Rahman or Amit Trivedi by end of this year.

Highway
Rahman doesn’t quite give gem of album, but does give 3 excellent songs, Patakha Guddi (I like both versions, but that fast rock part in male version makes it my fav), Maahi Ve (beautiful composition) and Kahaan Hoon Main (Jonita Gandhi’s brilliant vocals).

Hasee Toh Phasee
‘Shake it Like Shammi’ is one hell of a mad song that tops my iTunes most played song list at the moment. Also, ‘Ishq Bulaava’ is my other fav. ‘Drama Queen’ and ‘Zehnaseeb’ are pretty good too.



Top3 Hollywood Films : 



Godzilla
I can watch this film 100 times just to see Godzilla come out and roar.

Captain America
Humour with good action scenes supported by a solid narrative. You just don’t ask for more.

Chef
Food, food, food and a lovely father-son connect, plus the use of twitter in story makes this a pleasant watch.



Worst Hollywood Films : 



Noah
Leave out the great visuals, this was one hell of a bore to me. And it was my 1st Emma Watson movie sadly.

The Monuments Men
A brilliant concept wasted to the core, even Clooney and Damon acting couldn’t save it.

The Amazing Spiderman 2
Try to give Spiderman lots of villains to fight, but where’s the story, and the villain plot build ? All happens too quickly, and to make it worse they kill Gwen.



Monday, June 30, 2014

Movie Analysis : Ek Villain

Directed by Mohit Suri
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3175038/

Tere hi gunaah laute hai, ek ajnabee ke roop mein tujhe saja dene… 



This movie is another case of me connecting to a emotional romantic genre and inspite of various flaws, I end up loving the movie.  Sometimes, what a movie makes you feel is important, the flaws takes a backstage then.

The story is of a gangster Guru (Siddharth Malhotra) who meets Aisha (Shraddha Kapoor) and in few meetings he falls in love with her because of her innocence and her way of living life. As expected she helps Guru come out of his dark life and start to enjoy life. But, their happy life is destroyed by a serial killer, Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh) who kills Aisha and many other girls because he loves his wife, Sulochana (Aaamna Sharif) a lot, and he feels by killing other girls he can remove the anger he gets towards her or others who insult him, he is basically a emotional lover psycho (bad version of shahrukh from darr). What happens later, is very much predictable.

Mohit Suri isn’t interested in making the narrative full of suspense, as he begins the movie with Rakesh brutally killing Aisha (though I wonder what was the need to dub Riteish voice in that scene, which in 2nd half we see again in his original voice). There are two main plots of movie, one the romance developing between Aisha and Guru, and other is Guru’s revenge of Aisha’s death. And Mohit uses them both in small intervals in a non-linear format with flashbacks quite efficiently.

Special mention to the editor who cuts the past narrative to present beautifully with ‘female galliyaan alaap’ in background and the contradiction of situations in both timelines, like when Aisha tells Guru ‘how she would like to die’ and we are cut to Guru in present, mourning the death of Aisha. Or when Aisha tells Guru ‘to close his eyes and he will find her near him in form of wind’, we are cut to present where Guru is in church and doing the same trying to feel Aisha around him with a very soft background score to accompany the environment. Both were my fav scenes, also the three times Aisha, Guru and Rakesh’s son draw that smiley on the window of jeep. Infact in all these scenes, that galliyaan alaap bg is the common thing. These small romantic elements is what makes a love story touching.

I liked the way Sulochana’s character is written, had she not been as rude and constantly insulting Rakesh, his psycho act won’t had looked convincing.  Now comes two flaws, one major and one minor. The minor one is to make Guru find Rakesh so easily by means of co-incidence that Rakesh son arrives at church.. also Mohit Suri cheats with us through flashbacks, in linear format Guru actually finds Rakesh just one day after death of Aisha. Even if I ignore this flaw which the non-linear narration does help to do, the major one is Suri doesn’t literally use Guru’s dialogue ‘main tujhe marne nahi dunga, lekin main tujhe roj maarunga.. ek baar nahi, hazaar baar marunga’. What I wanted was Rakesh getting tremendous torture and beaten badly atleast 2 times more, maybe near his work place or once in public. Infact if you notice, Guru is in that coat-shirt costume since Aisha death until Rakesh is murdered, which I think takes 2 days to happen… so it was in a way just 2 day torture to Rakesh.  Easily a opportunity lost by Suri in that regard.

I like the Rakesh-Guru face-off right at interval. Another aspect of movie that irritates is Remo Fernandes, what made Suri sign him and what made him not see how bad accent he’s got. Remo totally spoils that dialogue ‘sher ki asli jagah jungle mein hi hoti hai’. Prashant Narayanan would had been ideal choice for the role or some other good character artist.

The God angle is another common thing in Mohit Suri films but slightly over-done in Ek Villain. I am fine with that lady telling Guru that ‘khuda tumhe saja dega’ but saying ‘ek din tumhara koi apna tumhari aankhon ke saamne marega, aur tum kuch nahi kar sakoge’ was a tad too much. Also, his son whom Guru kills does too much of cliched dialogue ‘bhagwan ke liye mujhe chorh do’.

I ain’t much fond of Milap Zaveri’s dialogues, infact I have hated his work till now in almost every film or even the show ’24’. But for first time, his work is good and many dialogues are worth applauding like that ‘hamdard’ one. Though they edited my fav one from film ‘tere hi gunaah laute hai, ek ajnabee ke roop mein tujhe saja dene’.

Its hard not to adore the love story of Guru-Aisha even though the start of it may look silly. Plus it includes that badly directed scene of mental asylum which has a good Amitabh Bachchan reference which for 2nd time Siddharth gets for himself (actually 1st time, in Hasee toh Phasee it was his character at young age who is shown watching Agneepath). I till now don’t know why Aisha hired Guru to free Chotu when it was so easy to enter and the guards looked that scared.

Not a single song that I dislike, easily best album of year and all of the songs are wonderfully used without halting the narration. Through ‘Banjaara’, Guru starts having a attachment towards Aisha (that shammi kapoor step was edited out, and I was so angry at it) which develops into love with ‘Galliyaan’ which is most romantic song along with ‘Hamdard’ which personally I don’t like much but the visuals are worth it. Then, there’s ‘Zaroorat’, where we see Guru in pain over death of Aisha and it includes Suri’s excellently one shot action scene on ship (just like Raabta in Agent Vinod).  Lastly, ‘Awari’,  which captures the broken Rakesh after being beaten by Guru and seen his wife taken by police.

Siddharth Malhotra comes out of his chocolate boy image, and in this role that has ample scope to perform, he takes it with open hands and simply doesn’t disappoint. He does falter in his dialogues at few places but overall, his acting is excellent.

Shraddha Kapoor is still coming into her own, improved performance after Aashiqui2, feel she is more comfortable in bubbly non-stop talk scenes rather than the emotional ones where her acting comes out more like delivering lines. Yet, I adore her a lot and she has a amazing screen presence, and how cute she looks when she says ‘lakshmi ko mana nahi karte’ or that angry bird imitation ‘puyiiii’. She still has a long way to go to become a great actor, but I am keeping fingers crossed that she will get better.

Its Riteish Deshmukh who steals the show, he is terrific in each and every scene he is part of, be it his innocent looking husband at home, or worker at office, or his evil psycho side while killing girls. The scene where his psycho side is introduced for 1st time openly is very well done by Suri, also the line given too ‘Phikr mat kijiye madam, aaj ke baad aapko shikayat ka mauka nahi milega’ (like Bob of Kahaani would say a particular line before killing).  Also, love the scene where he calls Guru and tells ‘tera talent bhi ajeeb hai, tu gairo ko toh bacha paata hai, lekin apno ko nahi’. And of course how can you not like the final fight scene, and all the dialogues and imitations of Aisha, Riteish does. You only wonder why such a talented actor keeps doing same nonsense comedy movies when he can offer so much more to hindi films.

KRK actually doesn’t irritate (except for his long laugh) and reason for it is the character he plays is such a asshole that you can easily relate KRK playing himself in the movie which he does quite easily.



Overall, Ek Villain works for Siddharth-Shraddha chemistry, Ritesh Deshmukh’s super evil performance and great music. Its still not Mohit Suri’s best direction, but much better than his last two movies.



Note : I haven’t seen the Korean film from which this movie is inspired or copied.. and I don’t really care either. 


Verdict : 3.5/5 


Saturday, June 28, 2014

Movie Analysis : Chef

Directed by : Jon Favreau
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2883512/



Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) is a chef at a restaurant but he hardly gets any freedom to cook the best food due to his owner’s regular interference. One critic posts a bad review about his good on internet, Carl asks him to comeby and try his food again but Carl fails to do so due to getting sacked from his job. His ex wife takes him to Miami and convinces him to start food truck across the place serving quality food of his own choice. How Carl gets famous, with help from his son Percy (Emjay Anthony) and a loyal friend Tony (Bobby Cannavale)..


The relation between Carl and Percy is the major USP of the movie, they share some lovely moments. Percy asking for more time with Carl, and to be there in his kitchen of restaurant, great humor by Carl in the way he denies. Love how Percy teaches his dad how to make account on twitter. And then a rofl moment when Carl mistakenly sends reply to that critic thinking it is private message.

How Percy is made to work at Carl’s food truck which he doesn’t enjoy initially but when Carl shows concern and advice, Percy shows how good a helper he is along with his tech savvy posts on twitter regarding truck.

If there’s one relation that isn’t shown in final half n hour then its between Carl and Molly (Scarlett Johannsson), who just disappears ever since Carl sets up his own truck.  I was happy though that they didnt get into Carl trying to get back to his ex-wife drama plot.

The movie always has two main points along which it continues till end, one is Carl’s professional life where he wants to be a famous chef who can creatively put his inputs into food without being ruled over, and other is Carl’s relation with his son who wasn’t getting enough time to spend with his dad.


And Jon as a director does exceedingly well in covering both these parts, with well placed humor and keeping emotional moments to a minimum.

The final end to movie though was slightly abrupt to me, felt like it ended just too suddenly.


Very good performances by Jon Favreau and Emjay Anthony. Wanted more of Scarlett, while Robert Downey Jr appears in a one scene special appearance.


Overall, Chef was a delightful film to watch for Carl-Percy father-son relationship, good humorous witty dialogues and all the varieties of food we see cooked in film. Good thing for me, I went to see movie after having taken lunch, else its a movie that will make you so much hungry.


Verdict : 3/5

Movie Analysis : Humshakals

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