Jodi No.1

Together they are a blast
Together they give love a new life
Just look at the faces in these pictures and you will know what to expect - so much fun, so much frolic and so much more. These young men (Sanjay and Govinda and young women Sonali Bendre and Twinkle Khanna) who believe in entertainment as a blessing are the people who know the games of comedy, the gags which others, more serious, feel are very cheap and refuse to understand how difficult it is to create comedy, to bring laughter alive at a time when laughter is being stifled by the evil forces which are running rampant in society - cruel enemies of anything good, specially comedy in life. And the man who has worked really hard, worked knowing that his job is providing comedy in a class of his own and yet be different in every film he makes is, `DD’. Are you aiming for some book of records, ‘DD?’ The way you are going on and on and succeeding seems like that). Time Films International’s Jodi No.1 is one of the ‘crowd’ of comedies ‘DD’ is making in which he is going all out to prove that you can’t stop comedy, that no power on earth can stop comedy, that the world needs comedy just as it needs oxygen to go on living a healthy life.

Jodi No.1 is an adventurous attempt at giving comedy a new twist at a time when comedy in Hindi films are being laughed at for their sheer buffoonery which many have started believing is comedy of the class of the great Charlie Chaplin, Raj Kapoor, Johnny Walker and Mehmood - and yet fail miserably - is jointly being produced by Dhirubhai Shah, Pravin Shah and Hasmukh Shah (‘we have joined hands to strengthen our ambition to make a film that will turn out to be, a healthy entertainer which is the need for every family which needs to live a happy life in these dark and desolate times). Paresh Rawal and Anupam Kher play major roles. The film has lyrics by Sudhakar Sharma which have been tuned by Himesh Reshamiya, a new talent, who has given of his best, knowing fully well that if he doesn't he will have to start his struggle all over again. Yunus Sazawal and Ikram Akhtar have written the screenplay and Rumi Jaffrey, the dialogue. The makers have some of the best technicians who have worked on Jodi No.1 - art director R.Varman, action, Mahendra Verma and cinematography K.S. Prakash Rao. Shagun Wagh is the executive producer.

The film whose basic idea is to entertain people starved of comedy till their appetite keeps asking for more is making progress. The film is a Nanjibhai presentation. Sheer entertainment is what the makers are aiming at, the rest they, at Time always believe in the goodness of God and time. Good clean entertainment will be on test this time. Let’s see if comedy has the power to make crores of cranky Indians laugh - the best medicine.

APJ