Phir Copy-Shopy.........

My days in Pune were really great!...lotsa fun with cousins......well all except one....the day i went to watch Phir Hera Pheri......ugh! the thought if it makes me squirm....

I was forewarned by my cousin that City Pride (Kothrud) was more of a family multiplex....with old grandparents (giving up their evening walks for a taste of youth) frequenting it more often then their lovely grand-daughters in whom we were more interested.....even so...we made a beeline for the m-plex in the hope that a few of those grand-daughters stray to the movies along with the old geezers....but...NO LUCK....

Well we finally nestled into our seats, i was hoping against hope that the movie lived up to its hype.....but....NO LUCK....the movie turned out to be 'inspired' by the classic 'Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels'.....i mean...if you wanna copy atleast do it well!!....the main plot does not begin till the intermission.....yawn..

There are too many characters in the film....atleast 20 of them were not needed....they show how the three guys who were stinking rich are duped by the sultry bipasha and are reduced to rags....those rags happen to be designer banyans which are torn but as clean as the one's shown in a surf add....

Meanwhile a dame in the row behind me seemed to have come with her new boyfriend and was trying hard to impress him....the mode of impression she employed was rocking back and forth and letting out shrieks of laughter into my ears.....so just when a stale joke is repeated on the screen and i try to doze off into un-irritating slumber...NO LUCK.......the girl behind lets out a peal of artificial mirth...they stop as suddenly as they had started...i guess the boyfriend doesn't find things funny around here huh?...

Back to the film....Bipasha seems to be running through the streets, chased by some gangsters....but then if she is poor and 'abla' why is she wearing tight jeans....a low-neck 'bebe' tee, and above all HIGH HEALS!!...whats that all about?....!!Wait! thats not all...in this attire she seems to remind the seemingly brain-dead Sunil Shetty of Tabu (remember her in the prequel?...all sari, specs, braid and all?)...it is like mistaking Rakhi Sawant for Sonia Gandhi!.....even Paresh Rawal's confused man act is all stereotyped and boring...even nadu will do better....they only ray of light in this dark pig sty of a film is Rimmi 'oh-so-edible' Sen...I was gonna lay back and enjoy the song 'yaad sataaye....' ...but...NO LUCK....it was cut out to fit the movie into schedule..aargh!...all of a sudden there is a gorilla in the movie...it seems to be 'inspired' by the 'Baby's Day Out' routine but turns out to be more of a King-Kong venture....

Truly, it is me who is to blame for expecting some entertainment from a Bollywood movie....in short the movie is.....ugh!...yuck!...ack thoo!....