Chashme Buddoor: Dum hai boss!


Starring: Ali Zafar, Taapsee Pannu, Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma
Rated: 6.5/10
Sai Paranjpe, I hear, is angry. But I can’t just stop laughing. So, please do not compare this one to the original Chashme Buddoor. That will definitely make you feel angry. The overriding emotion here has to be that of laughter, not anger.


Arre bhai, that was Sai Paranjpe. This is David Dhawan. That was a Deepti Naval-Farooq Sheikh romance — gentle, slow and very very aam aaadmi of the 80s. This is a rip-roaring comedy with just a skeleton of romance. It is also very 2013, in an unimaginable hurry and more about crazy chuddy buddies than about boy meets girl, more about dhichkiyan dhoom dhoom than about kahan se aaye badra.
It’s pure, unadulterated, unstoppable kitsch, very David Dhawan. But then, dum hai boss, with all those pjs that make you forget you ever sported a stiff upper lip. The lyrics, very Dhawan — racy, rotten and oh-so-much fun. You love the fact that har ek friend kamina hota hai as much as you serenade theandha ghoda race mein daura. Both are nonsensical but both so funny, much like the rest of the movie which hard-headed critics would trash for trashiness and the indulgent ones take it for what it is — a fun-filled film edited perfectly to not drag even for a minute.
Dhawan, who has gone for new actors for the first time in his films, will not regret his decision to keep his ageing, time-tested stars at bay — this one is definitely too young for a Govinda or a Sanjay Dutt. Siddharth Narayan is just perfect. A Jim Carrey variation, he may seem to go over the top but the lean-mean role of a kamina friend had to be like him. The counterfoil is in Ali Zafar, who stays cool and calm, and thus falls off the ledge of this pacey film. He is meant to hold the mantle of romance, but it is the more mature Joseph Furtado and Josephine, played delectably by a tattooed Rishi Kapoor and shapely Lillete Dubey, who take the cake away.
Kitschy expectations around David Dhawan are always high, so you may want many more one-liners here. But what Chashme Buddoor sports are funny enough, so hail Sajid-Farhad for the ticklers here. Don’t miss the shayari guys, for they stand tall in hilarious rottendom.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 7 April, 2013

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