Producer: Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor
Writer, director: Sachin Yardi
Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Tussahr Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav, Raima Sen
Plot: Three bumbling friends get to-gether to head a Mafia company - rather reluctantly but quite successfully.
Verdict: A breezy comedy.
Box Office Prospects: Too many simultaneous releases will mar its chances.
Creative Quotient:
Telly host Akshay Kumar (Tusshar) is in love with local don, Dattu Satellite (Mithun)'s sister Priya (Raima) and he must gather enough funds to be able to elope with his high-maintenance girl friend. Shorty Jha (Rajpal) suffers an inferiority complex and he wants to redeem his stature in the eyes of his son and wife who keep scoffing at him. And Ratnakar Joshi(Kher) is a retired accountant whose son and bahu wish to drive him out to work again, he now wants to settle a score with his negligent son and recover all the money he's invested in his son's upbringing.
These three men live in the same building and share the same aspirations, they hatch a plan to give Joshi's builder son a call on behalf of the underworld and extort a heavy sum from him. They form a fictitious Mafia company - the C Kkompany.
Their first crank call works wonders and emboldened by it they start making more calls mostly acting as good Samaritans and helping out troubled commoners. Soon C Kkompany has upstaged Dattu Satellite. By now a reality show wherein C Kkompany plays Robin Hood to the suffering masses. How long can they hold on to the farce?
The plot borrows the spirit of Munnabhai but uses lighter moments aplenty. Ekta Kapoor being cross-questioned over her moral ethics in making her K-serials adds to the comedy. But the makers have plugged in Balaji Telefilms too strongly - going to the extent of having a telestar-studded song a la Om Shanti Om title track.
Technical Expertise:
Music and dance sequences have been most atrociously over-used in the film, the maker could have spared the viewer all the torture. Despite low star-value, the film works on account of it's spontaneous humour. Yardi's lines work well in the film. Technically, Sanjay Jadhav's cinematography is commendable and so are R Verman and Ashok Lokare's sets and backdrops. Of the actors Tusshar, Rajpal, Kher and Mithun are effortlessly into their characters. Dilip Prabhawalkar's caricature as a chawl dweller is too predictable.
On the whole producer Ekta could have done better than to hire junior artistes for allied small roles, the film scores low on production values.
Rating: One star for the jokes and one for the fun on the run.