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Humse Badkar Koun
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Producer: Shyam Bajaj
Director: Deepak Anand
Staring: Sunil Shetty, Sonali Bendre, Saif Ali Khan, Deepti Bhatnagar
Music: Viju Shah
Released on: June 12, 1998
The title of the film itself asks a very interesting question. The answer to the question is simply "many, many, many, many other films". The movie is a re-hash of the lost-and-found sibling theme that we all thought had been used and abused to death in the 70's and 80's. Add to that the fact that this movie has been a long time in the making due to financial and star date problems, and you have one pretty misguided flick.
The movie begins with the simple and honest villager Bhola (Sunil Shetty) finding out that he was adopted from an orphanage and that he had also had a twin brother at the orphanage who was not adopted with him. Bhola's search for his twin leads him to Sunny (Saif Ali Khan), who is a stereotypical tapori goonda and refuses to believe that Bhola is his twin. A few reels, dishum- dushums, songs and dialogues later, Bhola and Sunny find out who their real mother is and go all out on a quest to re-unite their parivaar.
The first half of this movie is actually pretty interesting, mainly due to Sunil and Saif's good performances. The two excel at both the comical and dramatic scenes (to my surprise!). Sunil looks awkward dancing next to Saif - who is definitely a much better dancer, but we can at least give Sunil points for effort and for a nice, restrained performance. The second half, however, is soooo cliched, the script is soooo inconsistent, and the editing/direction soooo poor that the film ends up falling flat on its face. Sonali Bendre and Deepti Bhatnagar look good, but don't do much beyond some neatly choreographed (and some not so neatly choreographed) songs and dances. One wonders why the sexy Ms. Bhatnagar had to flee down South for a job (and Mamta Kulkarni gets a job in Bollywood?!?!? Go figure... ).
Bottom line: The actors of the film won't be hurt much if the film flops in India (why it would succeed - don't ask me). Saif, Sunil, and Sonali have some good big-budget films ready for release to erase this film's memory and Deepti is tasting success in the South. So - the question becomes who is the real victim of this film? The answer is "the audience" for having to endure sitting through such senseless cinema. And some advice to the movie makers - when your product is so poor, it's bad judgement to title it "Humse Badhkar Kaun...?".
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