| Reply 1 : Cast: Anupam Kher, Bhairavi Goswami, Shakti Kapoor, Emma Kearney, Abid Ali, Neha Pense, Pawan Shankar
Direction: Karan Razdan
Genre: Comedy
Story: Mr. Bhatti's free-trip to Queen's country costs him his moustache, endangers his life, and makes him a national hero. If the Angrezi make their immigration laws tougher for us desis, blame it on characters like Mr. Bhatti going on vacation there. Help someone, this one is Mr. Bean on a bicycle without brakes, going nowhere.
Movie Reviews: Brij Mohan Bhatti (Anupam Kher), BB (to sound cooler), from Bhayander (Mumbai) - a small-time banker, part-time detective, who fears dogs, involuntarily dances to mobile ring-tones (wannabe Dabangg ?), sends peace plans to the White House, and talks to his superhero Amitabh Bachchan in his dreams, wins an all expense paid for trip to England. While on his first-time adventure, this 50-something-year-old virgin is desperate to 'lose it' to a blonde (they share notes on meditation and 'levitation' too), but ends up entangled in an utterly unbelievable mystery. He's made a pawn in a Scotland Yard conspiracy to trap terrorist Abu Siddiqui (Kher part 2), his look-alike. With his Hitler-styled moochi , Chaplinisque mannerisms and Mr.Bean-like naivete - Mr.BB, a man with no mission, uses his amateurish exploits and suddenly turns into a save-the-world kinda hero. But even as he's defying death, he slips into the comical; and as a dying wish, opts for phone-a-friend, and calls Mr.Big B. The reason? Bhatti is in a big dilemma. He can't decide what's the most filmi way to meet his maut - Deewar, Shakti or Sholay style? Yes, it seems Amitabh Bachchan almost walked out of his KBC avatar, on to the sets of this one for a special appearance. But even that can't salvage Bhatti's chutti.
Anupam Kher, in this overly-animated and consistently hysterical performance, fails to force laughs or emotions. With Kher, we expect histrionics that makes us spring up on our feet, not sink into our seats.
Director Karan Razdan, probably had a noble message in mind, but he lost the plot on the runway itself. With poor production quality, tacky editing, mediocre supporting cast, and sketchy characters that are written with little attention or aspiration, the Misadventures of Bhatti, ends up being an ensemble of embarrassing desis caught in a chor-police story in phoren land.
Watch this 'bean'-there, seen-that movie, only if you want your brains to go on a permanent vacation. |
