Grand masti: Depends on how much you can take

Grand masti
Starring: Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonalee Kulkarni, Bruna Abdullah, Karishma Tanna, Maryam Zakaria, Manjari Fadnis
Rated: 5/10
He chants ‘Rose, Mary, Marlow’ pretty often because, he says, once upon a time he had a Laura (his wife)! Then there’s a Hardick too, sometimes condoming umbrellas and sometimes pumping up the jewels in his underpants with a pressure pump! By the way, the bulges are as big under the male bellies as they are over the female stomachs. And there is fizz too, a lot of creamy fizz bubbling out of coke bottles! In between, there is a lot of in-your-face man force, thanks to the main sponsor being a condom company of the same name.
Depending on how much of a prude you are, or how much of grossness you are willing to accommodate on a given day, or how much you enjoy the Dada Kondke type of sexing up, the verdict will go either way.
If you are cringing already then they had warned you it will come without any fig leaf and it really does come that way. So zip up your mojo guys for this outrageous, unapologetic and unabashed (read obnoxious) sex comedy on the big screen which is not so much actual sex as it is about filthy sex talk, filthier sexual moves and filthiest innuendos.
In short, director Indra Kumar tells you how you might have preferred to see an actual sex act over this shameless titillation in which springs go up under bedsheets signifying you know what and boobsy women wanting to graduate to cocktails over virgin coladas, amid talk of how much they would like the men to inspect their two milk factories!
Still wondering if there is anything left to imagination? Obviously not as this one is more about attempted sex than about real comedy. There’s a rocket in the pocket of Indra Kumar and his band of sex starved men in Ritesh, Vivek and Aftab all of whom seem to have misspelt Grand in their Masti. ‘Don’t horny me,’ they say. Really, you might ask, of course with a cringe.
The problem with this film lies not in it but in us. We are still not ready for any public showing of anything blatantly sexual. Most audiences who braved this bold but not beautiful wet dream were laughing more nervously than enjoyably.
Till this niggle in us gets fixed, films like Grand Masti will continue to evoke horror and embarrassment.  
Source: Sunday Pioneer, September 15, 2013

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