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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
Leading
Indian News Papers
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