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Chor Machaaye Shor: Bobby Steals the Show 

Director: David Dhawan
Producers: Rajiv Tolani
Cast: Bobby Deol, Shekhar Suman, Shilpa Shetty, Bipasha Basu, Om Puri, Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajat Bedi, Rajpal Yadav, Paresh Rawal
Music: Anu Malik

The Film:   At the centre of all the action in the latest David Dhawan offering (Chor Machaaye Shor) is Bobby Deol. He makes an interesting two-timing comedy hero in a double role. And he carries the day as successful as, say, Govinda. David Dhawan calls this situational comedy a comedy of heroism like Dharmendra's (Yeh Dillagi, Chupke Chupke & Shole).

          As a hero his character status is as a petty thief. On the run from law after a big diamond robbery (worth Rs 30 cr) with two accomplices. But he conceals the gem in a building under construction which to his dismay houses the police headquarters. To retrieve the booty he has to sneak in impersonating as Inspector Ram. This Ram and Shaym business is very old hat, a hat almost in tatters, but sought to be passed off as a fresh 'maal' with two bright and colourful designs - Shilpa Shetty and Bipasa Basu - stuck to it.          As it turns out, the comic focus remains on Bobby - and he hasn't failed DD. He has such a funny face, after all. But the total comic effect is definitely a collective effort of all the actors. And who the others are? Paresh Rawal (ACP Ranbu Singh, Raghu), Om Puri (Inspector Pande), Ashish Vidyarthi (Tito, the bad man, chaiwalla), Rajat Bedi (Tito's partner Tony), Rajpal Yadav (Johny, Bobby's sidekick and partner in crime) and, of course, the two girls.
          Both play dumb babies. Imagine a smart Inspector Ranjita falling in love with Inspector Ram, never suspecting he is a thief. And imagine an ACP's daughter, that is Kajal (Shilpa), falling for her father's driver (Bobby in the other role of Shaym). Both are nuts over their lover thief. And they refuse to heed the bell that rings in their mind. Together they all create a laugh riot.          Shekhar Suman falls in a class apart. Returning to films with a vengeance, he plays as many as seven cameos, male and female. He gets away with them all quite smoothly. Of these the most       
hilarious one playing Bobby's mother. Having put on weight is a disadvantage for him though.           David returns to his old style and manages to create the kind of comicfare he is known for, surprising enough without Govinda, Kader Khan and Johnny Lever, his pet actors.

           But he retains his shortcomings too. There are similar sequences of song and dance patches we have seen in his earlier films. As usual it is a good mixture of sensible and senseless.

-by Our Film Critic
August 31, 2002

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