Some movies are destined to be tagged as a must miss, which Mr White Mr Black has written all over it. One of the most common factors in many movies which have been released in the past couple of years or even this year, there would be definitely one sub-plot common to them, chase for money. Not talking about the previous years big films, consider One Two Three or Tashan or Mr White Mr Black, the climax will be a treasure hunt and you wonder, how come the film industry, which is producing some amazing films also have directors and actors who believe in such silly plots. A definite taken audience for granted film is what you think Mr White Mr Black is.
Rating: 2/5
Director Deepak Shivdasani has been brooding over last four years after he directed Julie (you must remember Neha Dhupia of course!) and Baagi (do you even remember it?). Though he has tried his best to make a slapstick masala flick, he didn’t really succeed. It is not only difficult but impossible to please the audience with the same old silly gags that we have been seeing. The audience has grown far more intelligent in the past year and even if one expects to be really good at making a run-of-the-mill film we want better twists, more intelligent gigs, better screenplays and superb story lines. The forced sequences that try so hard to bring out the laughter just falls flat.
Deepak Shivdasani got not two but three good actors to support him in the film but he could not utilize it fully. Both Suniel Shetty, Arshad Warsi and Ashish Vidyarthi have developed as actors in the recent times. The absolute perfect comic timing from Arshad and the gullible looks from Suniel has made our stomach hurt in films like Hera Pheri and Munna Bhai. Now, when you see such talented actors being wasted on a baseless story and the fact that the title makes you think of the film that will create another hit comic pair as it has done in the past, you feel terribly let down. Though the plot has its sides kicks and the sublime innocence of certain characters is all that affects you when you watch it. We are all heavily loaded with the situational comedy where a smile has to be painfully forced, so does this one.
Mr White Mr Black is about two men Gopi and Kishen (Suniel Shetty and Arshad Warsi, respectively, and seems like the names are also taken from a Gopi Kishan). Gopi from Hoshiarpur arrives at Goa to hand over his father’s last wish a plot of land to Kishen. Kishen who has become a conman doesn’t find any interest in this cheap piece of land that wont fetch him more than 25000. Though Kishen has taken to bad ways, he has done it to educate his sibling Divya (Mahima Mehta) in London. Even after quite some cunning trials of hiding his wrong deeds of swindling money by inventing a twin hamed Hari, he fails to convince his ladylove Anuradha (Rashmi Nigam). While Gopi is trying to hand over the piece of land to Kishen and take him back to the village, Kishen is running away from him like a disease, he befriends Tanya (Anishka Khosla) who is incidentally the owner of a resort which is being boarded by three girls who have stolen diamonds worth crores from a Don (Ashish Vidyarthi). The don also arrives at Goa and then the hotch-potch happens. Even to add to the twists, Kishen’s sister who thinks he is a rich man brings her boyfriend and his father to meet him. Everyone seems to know about the diamonds and like any other treasure hunt film in Bollywood, the climax is a complete mayhem.
f you speak about acting, then you get a horrid feeling of the strange mistakes that certain actors do at a time of uncertainty. You would wonder why Suniel or Arshad ever accepted this film. Though Arshad is good at certain places it doesn’t exclude him from belonging to the wasted list. All the ladies are just sacks of flesh and even an experienced Sandhya Mridul is just horrible. Sharat Saxena is the only saving grace in the film. The music by the types of Jatin-Lalit and Sameer couldn’t do anything to ring a bell. Everything else seems to be loosely contrived and the movie is not what you might think about it from the title.
Finally, watch it on the cable, that way you can change the channel when you wish!
Raing: 2/5
