Movie Review : Gali Gali Chor Hai
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Artists (Cast) : Akshaye Khanna, Shriya Saran, Mugdha Godse, Annu Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Ashok Samarth, Akhilendra Mishra, Vijay Raaz, Rajpal Yadav, Shashi Ranjan, Amit Mistry, Vipin Sharma, Arun Verma, Rajat Rawail, Murli Sharma, Mushtaq Khan, Jagdeep
Artist (Special Appearance) : Veena Malik
Producer : Jitendra Jain, Nitin Manmohan, Prakash Chandani, Sangeeta Ahir, Sanjay Punamiya, Vijay Jain
Director : Rumi Jaffrey
Production Company(S) : One Up Entertainment
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Saturday, February 04, 2012 11:25:47 AM (IST)
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Anaam, Bollywood Trade Editorial
The film is an insult to the intelligence of cinema audience and should have stayed in cans instead of being released. It is dated and it seems the producer felt he could cash in on the anti-corruption mood in the country and recoup his lost investment and thus decided to release it, which obviously turned out to be a grave error of judgement. GALI GALI CHOR HAI is all set to join the bandwagon of ‘box office wash out’ films of 2012 going by the collections and ‘no show’ scenarios on the opening day.
The film’s story hinges on a stupid premise, an idiot of a protagonist, and an old katchra Cinni fan. It is more a story of the fan than that of what is being termed as the ‘quintessential’ common man represented by the new Bharat Kumar (Akshaye Khanna). He is a cashier in a bank and you would never have come across such a moronic bank official ever in your life. He also acts as Hanuman in the local Ramleela and aspires to play the role of Ram one day using his superior histrionic prowess. However, he can be easily taken for a ride over a minor issue by a lowly police havaldar (Annu Kapoor) and a vengeful local MLA (Murli Sharma) and his delinquent brother (Amit Mistry), who is also a Ramleela actor. Bharat also has a ‘trade-marked’ moron for a father - Satish Kaushik. The film has a useless rom-com triangle of Bharat, his wife Nisha (Shriya Saran) and his ‘long legged paying guest in hot-pants’ Amitha (Mugdha Godse).
The father son duo gets caught into a web of corruption and deceit over a fan claimed by the police to have been stolen from their house. The super-moron Bharat spends more than Rs.30,000/- to complete the process of the recovery of the worthless stolen article that he never wanted in first place. What more, after he gets it, he wants to throw it away in all sorts of ways but does not succeed in spite of his ‘best’ efforts in a big city like Bhopal. When he succeeds, strange coincidences lead to his arrest as a terrorist. His moronic father has to sell his house to get him out of jail. And as he is acquitted, he is all set to get implicated in another case of having claimed and taken possession of a ‘do kaudi ka electric pankha’ that was not his in the first place.
Rumi Jaffrey must have marvelled at this story while writing and directing it. The cast and crew of the film during its shooting and previews must have laughed heartily and cried copiously over the travails and turmoil of their incredibly stupid and boring common man Akshaye Khanna. That is how such films get made, people associated with them are so good at patting each other’s back in self-congratulation. It is quite possible that even Anna Hazare would have enjoyed the special show of the film and felt good that Bollywood stars accord so much respect and importance to him that they travelled to Ralegan Siddhi with a film projector. The film has bombed in spite of his endorsement, denting his credibility and acceptability as an anti-corruption crusader even further.
GALI GALI CHOR HAI is a colossal failure on every cinematic parameter and an irritatingly boring film from the audience perspective. It is badly written, produced, directed and photographed. SAB TV’s comedy serials like LAPATAGANJ are far better developed and produced. They address important social issues in entertaining, touching, credible, and wholesome ways. People relate with their characters and milieu. Rumi Jaffrey should have studied them for inspiration before making his film about the ‘Common Man’.
We give half a star to the film for using actual locations and one for the brave attempts of Akshaye Khanna and the rest of the cast to rise above the pathetic script with very little success.
Rating - 1.5/5
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