One popular and peculiar story goes that a producer had paid him only half his due. But Half Ticket’s loveable delinquent was, by most accounts, a rather difficult and eccentric person who kicked up a fuss when his payment failed to arrive. Ask anyone and they will vouch for Kishore Kumar’s vaudevillian genius. But in many cases, we do know that it was not all play and party on the sets. Thinking of Half Ticket, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro or Andaz Apna Apna, one often wonders if the cast and crew had as much fun making them as we had watching them. When Hindi cinema is at its inspired high watermark madness, it can be a lot of fun – both for the audience and filmmakers and crew behind the making of the film. But it does so with comedy, which is why it is so brilliant.It is high time comedies are accorded the respectability they deserve or at least an acknowledgement that funny is a serious business.Ĭomedy is a communal hug – a “jaadu ki jhappi” as Raju Hirani’s Munnabhai would have it – that Bollywood has churned out in the best of times and bleakest of times. With a satirical look at Indian politics and media, Peepli Live tells a very heartbreaking story, with no happily ever after. However, the word soon spreads and media channels swarm into the village to capture the event live. A farmer Natha decides to commit suicide to get the farmers' compensation. However, it does it in such a clever way that you remember it with a lightness in your heart. Peepli Live addresses one of the most jarring and tragic situations in the country, farmer suicides. The characters are always funny, never intentionally, even when they are on the verge of death. Even though it is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, it is an amazing dark comedy at the same time. Shriram Raghavan's Andhadhun has all the qualities of an unforgettable watch, and hence it received its well-deserved critical and commercial acclaim. When the murderers suspect that he knows more than he is letting on, his life starts getting entangled in more and more problems.
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Brij Mohan Amar Rahe is hilarious, even when the things happening on screen aren't really.Ī pianist pretending to be blind witnesses a murder of a former movie star. The texture of the film is based on reality, and in many ways the film's comedy emerges from the fact that people that look like us are doing things that we cannot imagine doing. However, police catch his new identity and arrests him for his own murder. A man who is having an affair and frustrated with his life, decides to fake his own death in order to get away from a big debt. His 2017 crime thriller Brij Mohan Amar Rahe is another underrated gem that he starred in. We can all agree that Arjun Mathur is an amazing, yet underrated actor. The film is a situational comedy, and situations are usually bloody and disturbing. The intertwining stories were greatly executed for sure, but the comedy in the film was gold. Basu smartly tackled the script in a way that the story wouldn't fit into one box. The best thing about the film wasn't its attractive star-cast, it was actually in its smart writing. It leads to a chain of events that lead to more crimes. A bunch of lives intertwine when a gangster commits a grizzly double murder. However, his latest venture Ludo was a bit of everything.
But as you let it grow on you, you find yourself invested in the deadly comedy of errors happening on screen.Īnurag Basu has made gangster dramas, heart-warming stories, comedies and even musicals. Blackmail, directed by Abhinay Deo is almost raunchy at first sight. However, as we know, things never go according to the original plan. Instead of flying into a murderous rage, he decides to exact sweet revenge by blackmailing them. An under-appreciated film starring the late Irrfan Khan in a haunting performance, Blackmail is the story of a jilted husband whose wife finds out that his wife is cheating on him.
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