E-Kantipur

KATHMANDU, DEC 11 -

By now it is apparent to me that one needs to leave one’s brains at home before going to watch a Bollywood comedy. The newest release No Problem doesn’t prove me wrong.

Naturally, the movie is shot outside India (this time in South Africa) and of course, everyone there understands and speaks Hindi. Zandulal (Paresh Rawal) is married to a blonde and lives in a “village” in South Africa that looks like a housing colony. The bank he has opened is looted by an amateur blackmailer Raj (Akshaye Khanna) and thief-in-guise-of-social-worker Yash (Sanjay Dutt), The two pranksters set up to save Zandulal from three gorillas, after which they are taken by him as guests. Suspicion comes late to Zandulal, but he soon follows them to Durban to find them.

Meanwhile, international criminal Marcos and his pathetic cronies steal some phony-looking diamonds for a corrupt minister. The minister keeps the diamonds, doesn’t pay the criminals, and gets killed supernaturally—courtesy of the powers possessed by one of the cronies. Hereon, the movie turns out to be an overwhelming “masala-filled” package, adding incompetent police officer Arjun’s (Anil Kapoor) wife Kajal (Sushmita Sen), who suffers multiple personality disorder and her narcissistic sister (Kangana Ranaut), who is Yash’s love interest. All characters entangle in a pandemonium in the end, in their collective chase of the diamonds.

Movies like these are not made to bring something new to the audience. They are made with the sole intention of making them laugh. On that level alone, it does a pretty good job. Everyone enjoys jokes with heavy sexual undertones and a gorilla farting away an adult man once in a while. I couldn’t stop laughing even though internally, I was shaking my head at the incoherence of it all. So, though one gets a mixed feeling of irritation and amusement by the end, one definitely leaves the hall with a grin.

Posted on: 2010-12-11 08:36

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