Bajatey Raho: Reason to cry

Bajatey raho
Starring: Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Pathak, Tusshar Kapoor, Dolly Alluwalia, Ravi Kishen
At: DT Cinemas & others Rated: 3/10
Quite a misguided missile this one. For one, you expect humour, there is none. Two, you expect action, there is only a hint of it. Three, you expect good music and all you get to hear is a parody on Mika’s Subah honey na dey for a Mata ki chauki sequence.
Why Bajatey Raho would so deliberately steer clear of its own lifeline which, undoubtedly, was to be humour, is bewildering. It is a neither here nor there kind of a film which gets caught in an extreme and unexplained bout of inanity.
Think about it — despite the presence of Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey, Tusshar Kapoor, Ravi Kishen and Dolly Ahluwalia (of Vicky Donor fame), known for their rollicking knack of inducing hilarity to any amount of lacklustre proceedings, there is hardly a sequence in which you get reason to smile, forget about laughing out aloud.
And, there is no apparent explanation for such ennui because the tale could have woven in a whole lot of laughter moments within it. While Vinay Pathak is stuck to pathos, Ranvir is cantankerous in an irritating kind of way and you wonder why Tusshar is even there. Dolly, on the other hand, gets nothing to do in the film despite her arresting run in Vicky Donor.
As for Ravi Kishen, the Bhojpuri superstar, he seems to have been dipped into a bucket of Revive starch before being put before the camera, so stiff he is. Tusshar’s love interest is somewhat of a bubbly but she hardly gets anything to do with her boyfriend in the entire movie.
So on all counts, Bajatey Raho is a let-down, especially when it’s pre-release publicity blitz tagged it as an incorrigible comedy. But as it turns out, it is neither incorrigible nor comic.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 28 July, 2013

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