One more slapstick multi-starrrer, which was pronounced as a very good upcoming movie by most characters in Ekta Kapoor’s K branded serials (are these actors paid for advertisement also? Heights of slavery to boss!), says three two one and sorry, no blockbuster, the hit is a complete amiss. Kyon ki Ekta bhi kabhi Sis thi, oops hai! What kind of atonement for sibling rivalry is this? Pray accept my apologies but movies don’t sell solely on such propagandist stunts, it may work in the small screen, however I strongly have my doubts. Ashwani Dheer, who won accolades for television series Office Office which has every ingredient to makes your stomach hurt with laughing, couldn’t really live up to the mark.
Rating: 2.5/5
The movie goes round three men with the same name found in the same place, how convenient for a movie to base on. The most common of all Indian names and this time it is not Mussaddi Laal but Lakshmi Narayan. The movie introduces three men who are tagged as mere numbers owing to the fact of being namesakes, Lakshmi Narayan 1, an aspiring goon played by Tusshar Kapoor, Lakshmi Narayan 2, a pretty petted bossism victim played by Suniel Shetty and Lakshmi Narayan 3, a lingerie hawker turned business man with an X-ray vision played accurately by Paresh Rawal. These three characters are wandering about different missions but land up in the same hotel. There happen a number of not so funny and calculative incidents that lead to the characters falling victims to the identity crisis, each one receiving letters and clues meant for the other.
Paresh Rawal, Sameera Reddy in One Two Three
Even with his mother’s, a typical Kanta Behn, praying day and night for her son’s success; Lakshmi Narayan 1, who belongs to the lineage of Mafia dons, is unable to commit any murders. His last chances comes in the form of taking supari for killing Papa, a rival mafia don played by Mukesh Tiwari whose sense of the English Language is to add an ‘s’ to every word that he utters. He is supported by two funny henchmen named quite aptly as Albert and Pinto played by Vrajesh Hirjee and Sanjay Mishra, respectively. Lakshmi Narayan 2 lives by the two rules that this whole world adheres up on ‘the boss is always right’ but what this guy follows is that even when you know the boss is wrong, get back to the rule number one of his being always right. He is on a mission to buy a vintage car from Sameera Reddy who dons the cap of Laila, the sexy owner of an auto showroom. Her motto is to rip every particle of her clothing to get a customer. What would happen when you have Paresh Rawal comes as Lakshmi Narayan 3, an expert lingerie hawker who has been so successful in his business that he has set up a factory for his son but still remains the hawker from inside. He is supposed to meet a young designer Jiya, played by Madrasi Miss Esha Deol. We have a subplot of some missing diamonds incidentally falling in the hands of a pair of cooing lovers played by Upen Patel as Chandu and Tanishaa as Chandni, who work in the auto showroom. This pair promptly hides this treasure in an old vintage car which is not expected to sell, but as fate would have it their boss is hell bent of selling it off. When we have goons and treasure hunt going on then why not a women in uniform to keep law & order, so we have Neetu Chandra playing Inspector Mayawati (how appropriate! and she is the only lady in the movie who is wearing generous clothes a uniform to be specific in comparisons to the others scantly and sparingly exposing cloths!), a Hariyanvi cop, obviously imitating Kavita Kausik in FIR.
>> Sameera, Tanisha, Esha at the premiere of One Two Three: Sameera Reddy, Tanisha Chatterjee, Esha Deol, Neetu Chandra, Archana Puran Singh with Parmeet Sethi, Bhagyashree, Goldie Behl, Kumar Mangat, Sunil Lulla, Anil Sharma, Upen Patel, Ashwini Dheer, Tusshar Kapoor arrived for the premiere of the movie One Two Three at Cinemax on March 26th 2008.
Sameera Reddy,Tanisha Mukherjee in One Two Three
This being the systematic schematic for a comic thriller, all our director needs to do is to just play with the camera as each character either overplays or underplays, making the ever desired havoc. Not even a single character comes out in shining colors and even Paresh Rawal, though he at least justifies his role. The David Dhawan School of comedy or errors and Priyadarshan’s situational comedy come to a stand still with this one. One Two Three lacks any freshness howsoever. Ashwani Dheer offers this movie to the audience who made Hungama and Malamaal Weekly hits. The music by Raghav Sachar brings in a lot of lesser known singers and tries to give some apt music for this movie but they are remain hear and forget type of songs. Save for some singularly spoken one-liners or double entendres that kick-off the laughter which comes as a comic relief. The building blocks of the movie are the dialogues not the situations, so the outcome is expectedly incoherent. The director somehow was inspired by the run of the mill stuff go off on a tangent from his successfully divulged socio-political satires.
Sameera Reddy, Tanisha Mukherjee, Neetu Sharma
The movie is good for a family watch but quite expectedly, the audience would understand they have paid money to remain seated for a two hour long torture that promises a laughing death. I still feel Ashwani Dheer must have taken the film making task to be as easy as selling lingerie. These skillful directors however underestimate the Bollywood masala movie audience a little too far otherwise, we would not be having people investing money on such movies or even people acting in such movies which requires no talents whatsoever. Go if you have nothing better to do!
Rating: 2.5/5
