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Sunday, 15 April 2007 |
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Bheja fry
Cast: Sarika, Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Milind Soman and others
Director: Sagar Ballary
Rating:**
Bharat Bhushan is the kind of guy everyone must have encountered at least once — he sings loudly in a bus, shows his scrapbook to everyone, has a ‘hahaha’ laugh and oily hair. In using a French comedy (The Dinner Game by Francis Veber) as his source and placing Bharat Bhushan at the centre, is an inspired bit of ‘adaptation’ on the part of debut filmmaker Sagar Ballary. And Vinay Pathak is perfectly cast as the ‘Idiot’ in Bheja Fry. 
Music baron Ranjeet Thadani and his bored rich pals, play a game — they invite an "Idiot" to dinner every weekend, and have fun at his expense. The guy has no clue why he is in such an august gathering. Bharat Bhushan comes with a high recommendation from someone who has suffered his company, and Ranjeet invites him as his idiot of the week.
But before the thrilled tax inspector can arrive, Ranjeet throws his back, his wife (Sarika) leaves in a temper and so he is left all night at the mercy of the ‘helpful’ Bharat Bhushan, who proceeds to wreck his life — from inadvertently calling Ranjeet’s mistress (Bhairavi Goswami) instead of the doctor, then driving away the wife believing her to be the mistress; inviting Ranjeet’s rival (Milind Soman) to gloat at his misery and his tax inspector buddy (Ranvir Shorey, gross) to have a close-up look at his wealth.
Bharat Bhushan is a nightmare, and because he has no idea just how annoying he is, he is also endearing. Little things like being thrilled at the redial facility on a phone, to the solemn ceremony with which he takes out his ridiculous scrap book from its noisy plastic bag — how can anyone dislike a man like that.
The film has a stagey, too schematic quality to it, but it is intermittently amusing, mainly because Pathak makes up with his enthusiasm for the lack of vitality in the other actors. Can be watched without getting the brain fried too much — but with a lot of English dialogue, it is obviously targeting the urban multiplex audience.
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