Humshakals Hindi Movie Review

Humshakals Hindi Movie Review

Humshakals Hindi Movie Review
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  • Film : Humshakals
  • Producer : Vashu Bhagnani
  • Director : Sajid Khan
  • Star Cast : Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Ram Kapoor..
  • Music Director : Himesh Reshammiya
Rating: 2/5

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Humshakals happens to be a forthcoming Bollywood comedy film directed by Sajid Khan and Produced by Vashu Bhagnani. The film known to have released on 20th June, 2014.

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Story

Ashok (Saif) known to be a rich business tycoon based in London, who might be the owner of a rich empire, but kept in the mind the desire to become a stand up comedian. Ashok’s friend Kumar (Riteish) is his only confident, but their leaving no balance life is interrupted when Ashok’s Mama KANS (Ram) uses a medicine and pushes Ashok & Kumar into a mentally challenged state of mind.

While they can’t recover from exhaustion, the same mental asylum shelters another set of Ashok and Kumar who are the humshakals of the original pair. That’s not all, when KANS frames them to inherit the business empire, Ashok and Kumar find KANS’ humshakal too. The story moves forward and another set of humshakals is exposed. The story revolves on the fact whether the original Ashok and Kumar win over the original Mamaji.

Analysis :

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Needless to say that in case of such senseless script, its certainly tougher job to analyse it. That's because the cause to become mentally confused for me was compelled to watch cannot be written off so easily. Flimsily written, the film is a story about 3 sets of similar looking people. It’s plain filthy, if one has express with politeness. On the contrary Sajid Khan’s story has caused resentful displeasure in me beyond wits and there can be no intention of being kind here. I understand the guy has no respect for cinema, and his idea of loving films is delivering crud.

Its dissappointing to experience the lack of fine-drawn distinction. It turns out as i am asking for too much but when Saif, Riteish, Ram & Satish Shah slap and punch each other to emphasize on the film being a ‘slapstick’, one can easily gauge what we are thrown into. Stretching gags are a pain and when a Prince Charles impostor comments that the film is more confusing than his marriage to Lady Diana, I was irritated enough to silently hope someone sues Sajid for making terrible films.

The movie has enough moments to prove that Sajid is aware of his drawbacks. In a scene where mentally challenged patients are made to watch Himmatwala as a torture mechanism, I would like to believe that Khan understands filmmaking isn’t the best use of skills. Filled with claptraps and childishly foolish humor, the film gave no immensely engrossing bit. The only part which I enjoyed to the hilt was Riteish and Saif trying to escape the mental asylum. In a crisp and genuinely funny scene, Riteish’s facial expressions was absolute show stealer.

The low brow variety of fun is not something I can pass off as entertainment. In fact, cloning Saif & Riteish by tracking facial expression points and adding a voice modulator chip to get theirs voices correct was the most horrifyingly ridiculous thing I have heard since Joey’s Brain Transplant episode in FRIENDS. The only difference was Sajid expects to be taken seriously. If you haven’t died of shock yet, the film’s climax is a signing of power of attorney papers which occurs in the House Of Commons. Also a Grade 3, kept in isolation, mentally handicapped man has a logical working brain and hence fathoms the nuances of humshakal characters and the master plan better than us. If the sludge wasn’t enough, the dialogues will kill you. If that doesn’t, the film’s length will. On the contrary if you enter the hall to watch Humshakals, Sajid won’t let you out alive.

Performance :

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Saif Ali Khan hasn’t delivered this luminous brightness performance in a while. I haven’t been a fan of his latest releases but the guy hams, overacts and is darn terrible at it. Pitted against better actors like Ram and Riteish doesn’t help him as they make him look worse.

Ram Kapoor is fantastic. Especially where the male Ram romances the female Ram, one witnesses the immense versatile potential in the man. I wish Bollywood doesn’t allow him to return to television ever. Actors like him are such a rare find.

Toppling even Ram is Riteish who is genuinely the best thing in this otherwise pathetic movie. He brightens the screen with his quirkiness and the punctual comic timing. I can’t wait for Ek Villain even more now since the actor isn’t scared to unleash an absolutely different side of his!

The ladies, Esha Gupta, Tamannaah Bhatia & Bipasha Basu lack the comic bone altogether. In terms of screen presence Bipasha is slightly better but as a pack they all fail to fulfill the expectations.

Final Word:
Humshakals undoubtedly is the lowest form of buffoonery I have seen this year. It would have been way more harsh if Ram & Riteish were missing from the film. Loaded with incomprehensible vague wit, the film is a hodgepodge of pathos and monotonous work. Not at all funny and strictly for childish, I am gonna take the day off to decide whether Himmatwala was better than this. In the intervening time, stick to FIFA and stay away from the cinemas. Going with a very lenient 2 star.

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