Yamla Pagla Deewana: An enjoyable no-brainer

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The Deols reunite for a film that is all about them. Yamla Pagla Deewana is a part self-indulgent part self-deprecating effort from the trio, which aims to entertain from the beginning to the finish. The brothers in real life play bros on-screen too but they get separated when their con-man father Dharam (also their real life father Dharmendra) takes his younger son Gajodhar (Bobby Deol) and leaves their mother (Nafisa Ali). Twenty years later, the mother and elder son Paramveer (Sunny Deol) are settled in Canada, but when they hear about Dharam’s whereabouts, Paramveer travels to India to find his long-lost father and brother. Conveniently, Gajodhar is the first person he meets in Benaras, and while Dharam refuses to acknowledge Paramveer as his son, he does allow him to tag along with them once they witness his brute strength. The plot then focuses on Gajodhar’s romance with Saheba (Kulraj Randhawa), and after her five brothers assault Gajodhar and take the girl home, the trio, in DDLJ fashion, follow her to Punjab.

The brothers know what they’re good at, and so while Bobby sticks to romance, Sunny spoofs several of his own action sequences. Dharamendra as the tottering conman is good, but this is no where close to any of his best performances. Where the film provides us with several LOL moments, it also has a lot going against it. The Gajodhar-Saheba romance is a drag, the music is mostly terrible, and a lot of gags fall flat in the face. Yet, Yamla Pagla Deewana is good family fare, as long as you don’t reason too much about the happenings.

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"Band Baaja Barat" (BBB) had the set up to be a well crafted rom-com directed by Maneesh Sharma as a complete family entertainer and would have lived up to those expectations if it had not bungled up on technicalities. Apart from the slight disconnect, abrupt love making scenes and distastefully done smooching sequences, the story BBB dishes out is an interesting one about Shruti Kakkar (Anushka Sharma) aspires to become a wedding planner. Bittoo Sharma (Ranveer Singh) is a laid back lad from Haryana, who passes out of Delhi University and is now desperate to get away from his family business of sugarcane farming. Luckily, he falls for Shruti and soon makes friends with her and convinces her to make him her partner in the big fat wedding planning business called ‘Shaadi Mubarak’. Shruti makes it a point not to mix business with pleasure and plays by her rule book and is ‘just friends’ with Bittoo. But soon that goes for a toss as the proximity between the duo increases and the equation becomes more relaxed once they rejoice after each successful event. How the duo ends up in bed and how things unfold in the second half lacks subtlety and class. Ranveer looks promising being a debutant and Anushka does justice to her role as well. The music by Salim Suleiman, especially the “Ainveyi Ainveyi” number is a peppy one and adds a little dash of flavour of this rather half cooked platter. A slight attention to detail and trivial tweaking would have made BBB delight. But the planning’s gone a bit awry.

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