Mastizaade (Hindi)
Director: Milap Zaveri
Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das, Sunny Leone, Vivek Vaswani, Asrani
A few weeks ago, after watching the promos of two much-hyped comedies, this is how I updated my Facebook status: “Getting horribly confused between Kya Kool Hain Hain Hum 3 and Mastizaade . Which is what?”
Now, having watched Mastizaade a week after Kya Kool Hain Hum 3, I must confess that I am still unable to tell where last week’s film ended and this week’s began. The déjà vu has been frightening, right down to Tusshar Kapoor in the lead, Milap Zaveri wielding the pen (also occupying the director’s chair in Mastizaade ), Thailand as the location and a lot more.
Lest you want to know how Mastizaade is, well here’s the gist of it: Tusshar and Vir make ad films for products like Manforce condoms, the tagline for which is “ Karan Arjun kabhi nahin aayenge (Karan Arjun would never be born)”. Then there are the twin Sunnys — Laila and Lily Lele — who run a sex de-addiction clinic, an Alcoholics Anonymous group where women suck lollypops very tantalisingly, and a bank manager called Titli Boobna, who constantly puns on opening and closing of an account. The pun on giving and taking runs through the film like a leitmotif.
A mandatory gay track leads to a donkey and horse track. Double entendres keep pouring in. There is inventive wordplay like “no mangalsutra, only Kamasutra”. Bananas, rockets, guns and joysticks touch a metaphoric peak and acquire a new meaningful existence. Moans, groans and farts fill in whatever is left of the runtime.
Thus, the infantilisation of the viewer is complete. The only question left to ask: would you call this a film?
- Namrata Joshi
The only question left to ask after two hours in the theatre: would you call this a film?
