Film Review - Grand Masti

                                                      

         

The Grand Disaster

Film : Grand Masti

Cast : Riteish Deshmukh, Viveik Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Manjiri Fadnavis, Cleavages

Directed by: Indra Kumar

Duration: 2 hrs 10 mins

Rating: Not Possible

Grand Masti marks a new low in the annals of Hindi cinema. While the genre of adult or sex comedies is virtually nonexistent, mostly it is vulgarity and extremely low brow humor that passes off as a ‘comedy’.

While the predecessor Masti was no great shakes it was not as harmful as this one directed by Indra Kumar. There is no part of the male and female anatomy that remains unexplored in this travesty of a film. Since there is no evidence of any intelligence, on second thoughts the one part that has little to do with the film is the brain.

So the three friends are married and settled but there is little spice in their life. Riteish Deskhmukh and his wife spend time looking after their baby, Viveik Oberoi’s wife is too busy with work and Aftab’s wife is busy looking after her family. The three decide to go for their college reunion, their college is called SLUTS which is actually an acronym and that is the least offensive of all jokes.  And there are those old jokes like Rose, Mary , Marlowe which are repeated a zillion times.

Forget any double entendre, this one goes straight for the jugular and to call the gags crude, is to put it very lightly.  The women have precious little to do but to be a part of it and show plenty of skin. Not since Baywatch have women’s bosoms received so much attention, that too on the big screen.

There is no story, logic or sense here.  One of the characters has a potion with which “mard aur aurat ek dusre ki taraf aakarshit hone lagenge” (men and women will start getting attracted to each other) and he promptly mixes it in a soup.  Even teenagers don’t discuss birds and the bees the way the men talk here.     

The only silver lining on the very very dark cloud is the fact that the censor board has allowed things that we haven’t heard or seen before.  Let’s hope they are equally or more liberal in the future with regards to many other things.

In an interview, Sonalee Kulkarni, one of the actresses of the film said that it was her dream to work with director Indra Kumar. Clearly her ambitions are not very high.  

Bottomline – Avoid this film like bubonic plague. 

(Published in The Navhind Times on 15th Sept 2013)

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