Deewane Huye Paagal **
Vikram Bhatt always tries hard to give his audience something extra. Meaning - He not only gives us a frame to frame copy of popular Hollywood flicks but also throws in a few songs, PJs and scenes from his earlier films. Needless to say, he lived up to our expectations in Deewane Huye Paagal (DHP). DHP happens to be an outrageously blatant copy of "There’s something about Mary (TSAM)" amalgamated with an absurd sub plot.
The film opens with an introduction to the plot by Vivek Oberoi .If Aishwarya didn’t break up with Vivek yet, she definitely will in case she watches this. The celebrity boyfriend sounded more artificial than those "multi-millionaire" Dev Chopras and Sameer Sens in an Ekta Kapoor soap. Anyways, coming back to the plot, we have Om Puri playing a scientist who has devoted his life for concocting a magic potion that can reduce ones age. This "scientific" breakthrough is leaked to his evil brother (again Om Puri) by his secretary. The scientist, in order to rescue mankind from the villain and his minions, locks the potion in a safe with the password safely concealed with a toy parrot that can speak! He hides the parrot in Tanya’s (Rimi Sen) car just before he gets killed by the goons. Tanya who happens to be the sole witness to the murder escapes to Dubai to save her skin. The novel part of the story ends here! Speak of originality and people come up with such ludicrous ideas. But thanks be to the almighty, this part of the tale remains untouched till the end. (What good is an Akshay-Sunil starrer without some dishum dishum in the end?)
The rest of the movie is a parallel story and is a straight lift from TSAM. We have Shahid Kapoor playing the sweet and innocent Karan who has a secret crush on Tanya. But alas! He hardly starts going out with her when he discovers that she has disappeared from town. Years later, when he learns that Tanya is settled in Dubai, he hires a small time street fighter Rocky (Akshay Kumar) to trace the whereabouts of Tanya. But on seeing Tanya, Rocky falls for her himself. What follows is a loud and chaotic din with a variety of characters popping up and each of them trying to impress Tanya by assuming false identities (most of them fake a physical deformity to gain her sympathy!).
Rimi Sen looks hot in some frames but she has a way to go as far as her acting skills are concerned.Akshay Kumar’s comedy timing was good but he was loud at times. He still has boatloads of those martial art techniques up his sleeve and is good at punching the hell out of the bad guys when the need arises. Paresh Rawal and Vijay Raaz were completely wasted in rather inconspicuous and insignificant roles. They should stop accepting such roles in future. Shahid Kapoor was nowhere a match for Ben Stiller. The one man who was really funny was Suresh Menon playing the role of Sonny. He managed a really cool south Indian accent and had the audience ROTFL. The music in the film was average. The music director seems to have "drawn his inspiration" from a host of not so popular records. The lyrics were pathetic. Sonia Gandhi would have been able to pen better verse. Most of the "funny" dialogues were PJs. The dance sequences mainly consisted of Akshay Kumar caressing skimpily clad lasses and Shahid Kapoor swinging away his arms and feet to glory.Shahid tried really hard to impress with his dance. It had vigour but it lacked grace.It looked as if he was given a dose of Viagra with strict orders to stay away from women. And that entire libido ended up venting in his steps.
Overall the movie has been stripped of the subtle situational humour and wonderful performances that were present in TSAM. It is said that if a movie is worth making once, it is worth making again – but not by Vikram Bhatt. If you have seen TSAM you can definitely spare the trouble of being an audience to this flick. If you haven’t, I still recommend the home video of the original.
Vikram Bhatt always tries hard to give his audience something extra. Meaning - He not only gives us a frame to frame copy of popular Hollywood flicks but also throws in a few songs, PJs and scenes from his earlier films. Needless to say, he lived up to our expectations in Deewane Huye Paagal (DHP). DHP happens to be an outrageously blatant copy of "There’s something about Mary (TSAM)" amalgamated with an absurd sub plot.
The film opens with an introduction to the plot by Vivek Oberoi .If Aishwarya didn’t break up with Vivek yet, she definitely will in case she watches this. The celebrity boyfriend sounded more artificial than those "multi-millionaire" Dev Chopras and Sameer Sens in an Ekta Kapoor soap. Anyways, coming back to the plot, we have Om Puri playing a scientist who has devoted his life for concocting a magic potion that can reduce ones age. This "scientific" breakthrough is leaked to his evil brother (again Om Puri) by his secretary. The scientist, in order to rescue mankind from the villain and his minions, locks the potion in a safe with the password safely concealed with a toy parrot that can speak! He hides the parrot in Tanya’s (Rimi Sen) car just before he gets killed by the goons. Tanya who happens to be the sole witness to the murder escapes to Dubai to save her skin. The novel part of the story ends here! Speak of originality and people come up with such ludicrous ideas. But thanks be to the almighty, this part of the tale remains untouched till the end. (What good is an Akshay-Sunil starrer without some dishum dishum in the end?)
The rest of the movie is a parallel story and is a straight lift from TSAM. We have Shahid Kapoor playing the sweet and innocent Karan who has a secret crush on Tanya. But alas! He hardly starts going out with her when he discovers that she has disappeared from town. Years later, when he learns that Tanya is settled in Dubai, he hires a small time street fighter Rocky (Akshay Kumar) to trace the whereabouts of Tanya. But on seeing Tanya, Rocky falls for her himself. What follows is a loud and chaotic din with a variety of characters popping up and each of them trying to impress Tanya by assuming false identities (most of them fake a physical deformity to gain her sympathy!).
Rimi Sen looks hot in some frames but she has a way to go as far as her acting skills are concerned.Akshay Kumar’s comedy timing was good but he was loud at times. He still has boatloads of those martial art techniques up his sleeve and is good at punching the hell out of the bad guys when the need arises. Paresh Rawal and Vijay Raaz were completely wasted in rather inconspicuous and insignificant roles. They should stop accepting such roles in future. Shahid Kapoor was nowhere a match for Ben Stiller. The one man who was really funny was Suresh Menon playing the role of Sonny. He managed a really cool south Indian accent and had the audience ROTFL. The music in the film was average. The music director seems to have "drawn his inspiration" from a host of not so popular records. The lyrics were pathetic. Sonia Gandhi would have been able to pen better verse. Most of the "funny" dialogues were PJs. The dance sequences mainly consisted of Akshay Kumar caressing skimpily clad lasses and Shahid Kapoor swinging away his arms and feet to glory.Shahid tried really hard to impress with his dance. It had vigour but it lacked grace.It looked as if he was given a dose of Viagra with strict orders to stay away from women. And that entire libido ended up venting in his steps.
Overall the movie has been stripped of the subtle situational humour and wonderful performances that were present in TSAM. It is said that if a movie is worth making once, it is worth making again – but not by Vikram Bhatt. If you have seen TSAM you can definitely spare the trouble of being an audience to this flick. If you haven’t, I still recommend the home video of the original.
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