The film opens with a mixed bunch of old and young people laughing away to their heart’s content outside a big house. They are members of Hashi Khushi Club that laugh together in the morning and rehearse for a play on the freedom struggle in the evening. You see, they are putting up a play for the Independence Day which is two days away. No one has the faintest idea about what the members do to put body and soul together when they are not laughing away or rehearsing for their play. Cut to hero Aniket (Jeet) who is teaching his lady love (Varsha) to sing, under the acidic eye of the girl’s precocious kid sister (Mimi Dutta.). Back home, he is shocked to find a lady with an infant lying on the bed of the flat he shares with his tablaplayer friend. (TwoMen and a Baby?) The unconscious lady is placed in intensive care. Well, she is a victim of harassment by in-laws for mothering a female child. The two friends begin a hide-and-seek game with the baby till everything ends laughingly ever after. What a relief!
Technical Expertise :
Jeet was certainly not in his senses for this once- in-demand actor to have ventured into a film like this. If he needs to resurrect his sagging career, desperation is not the answer. Hashi Khushi Club is a script that had tremendous potential of becoming a rollicking comedy had the director, who has also written the story, script and dialogue, apart from scoring the music, got the bizarre idea of pleading for the cause of the girl-child. It is the weirdest thing to happen to a film that perhaps began with the good intention of making people laugh but lost its way in a ‘cause’ the director does not even understand. Jeet is thoroughly uncomfortable in his funny image, spoilt all the more by the crazy punch added to his dialogue at the end of every sentence. Wonderful actors like Biswajit Chakraborty and Biswanath Bose are reduced to hamming, while Papiya Adhikari’s sex-hungry seduction act complete with terrible costumes and a scary wig are disgusting. Varsha must forget the camera if she wishes to reach beyond her now-simpering-now-lovey-dovey smiles.
Rating :
The single star the film deserves lies in its scintillating music.
