The film starts off with college
seniors Amar (Ritesh Deshmukh), Meet (Vivek Oberoi) and Prem (Aftab
Shivdasani) briefing the newbies on the A-B-Cs
of college life. Just when one of their batch-mates Hardik (Suresh Menon)
tries to hit on a girl, their new
principal Robert (Pradeep Rawat) publicly shames him.
Cut to six years later, our
three heroes seem to be having marriage woes. While Meet’s wife Unnati
(Karishma Tanna) doubles up as his
ambitious boss at work, Amar is mostly ignored
by his wife Mamta (Sonalee Kulkarni) who showers all her attention on their
newborn. Prem on the other hand has to deal with Tulsi (Manjari Fadnis) who
seems to be more devoted to her extended
joint family at the cost of her husband. Note the names used for each of the wives are according to the roles they play!
Just while they are blaming their fate for their lives being stuck in a rut, they get a call from their old college
(with a funny name when used as an acronym) about an alumni meet and week-long fun. But they are surprised to find that
the college isn’t what it was back then.
Under Principal Robert, it seems to have degraded into a Talibanized regime
with over-conservatism and fear of
punishment.
Things just seem to look
brighter when the trio meets up with their old teacher Rose (Maryam
Zakaria), Marlo (Kainaat Arora) and Mary (Bruna Abdullah) and the prospect of a fling with them. Again,
note the names of the three girls and
its link with a popular joke that goes around the internet. But, it’s all not
easy as they have an obstacle to deal
with – Principal Robert.
As such, ‘Grand Masti’ is a fun film, an amalgam of all the jokes usually forwarded on social media or on cell
phones or funny internet videos. The only credit it can get is for putting them
all together into a film, but none for any original creativity whatsoever. But
then, for those people who have issues
with adult humor, they better keep
away from the film rather than
criticize it for those jokes.
Among its three male leads, adult comedy specialist Ritesh Deshmukh does well, while the
other two are already past their sell-by date. The film’s six glamour girls do a good job of being pretty and an average job
at acting. After a while, you wouldn’t
really care to remember who played what role! And, Pradeep Rawat, don’t you
remember him from ‘Ghajini’? He plays
the bad guy yet again!
Verdict: Going by the
success of the genre of adult humor,
looks like these jokes are here to stay. Indian moviegoers seem to be more accepting of it now, rather than
living in denial as they had done for decades. But, since the film lacks originality and made from forwarded humor, you exactly know what
to expect. So, those of you who enjoy
movies like these don’t wait till it is aired on TV because it would
obviously be censored. Finding some
cheap tickets would help instead.
Rating 4/10: Rated down only
because it lacks originality in its humor
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