Friday 28 July 2017

Mubarakan movie reviews Anil Kapoor Arjun Kapoor wiki

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Ileana D'Cruz, Athiya Shetty, Neha Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah

Director: Anees Bazme

Rating: Two stars

Twin trouble capers come preloaded with a certain degree of comedian verve. So does Mubarakan, directed by Anees Bazmee of No Entry and Singh is Kinng reputation. But in trying to squeeze every ounce of hilarity out of its scrappy screenplay, the film goes overboard with its unnecessary cheeriness and swerves into the realm of inanity. In the bargain, it loses its way finally after delivering a fairly gusty first half.

Mubarakan is generally puerile, sporadically fun, and always unabashedly over the top. It is just the sort of mix of song, dance, comic gags and unchecked lunacy that Bollywood's mass audience so loves. So, there is superhit written all over the film, but this puffy potion simply isn't for those with a taste for more subtle and easy-flowing humour. Mubarakan tries too hard to tickle our humorous bones and the effort show.

Its songs and comic gag are of the routine variety. It seeks to drive itself on the back of the seductive power of familiarity, manages to do a tolerable job pre-interval but, taken as a whole, Mubarakan is neatly and niftily package crap that never stops reeking of stupidity. If there is anything positive in this attempt laugh riot, it is its refusal to take itself seriously - an attribute that stand the film in good stead when it begins to make bigger beyond the plausible and the drivable.

Mubarakan is a comedy that revolve around two weddings and a whole lot of confusion. Before the lovebirds can have their nuptials solemnized in a gurudwara, they boast to fly though two-and-a-half hours of turmoil caused by familial pressure and mistaken amorous liaison.

The twins alienated at birth are played by Arjun Kapoor. One, Charan, grows up as a turbaned Sardar in the home of Baldev (Pavan Malhotra) in Punjab. The other, Karan, is raised by Baldev's elder sister Jeeto (Ratna Pathak Shah), in London. In the film's notch sequence, the two boys lose their parents in a road mishap. Their bachelor uncle Kartar (Anil Kapoor), who has bowed a rustic part of the UK into a mini Punjab, divides the orphans sandwiched between his two elder siblings and then profits to fuel the chaos that ensues when the duo is ready for dalliances.


The clumsy Charan, five minutes Karan's junior, loves Nafisa Qureishi (Neha Sharma) but lacks the guts to let his conservative folks know his feelings for the girl. As a consequence, his minister and his London-based aunt decide that he is a suitable boy for Binkle (Athiya Shetty), offspring of a wealthy Punjabi (Rahul Dev).

Charan turns to uncle Kartar for help in order to scuttle the in the near future wedding. At the uncle's behest, he passes himself off as a drug addict. Binkle's father and her brother Manpreet (Karan Kundrra) throw a fit and humiliate Charan's adoptive father Baldev. The latter and Jeeto end up fighting so violently over the imbroglio that they stop talking to every other. The slighted Baldev asserts that he will find a bride for Charan within a month. He foliage for Chandigarh without exchanging goodbyes.

In Punjab, Baldev chances upon Sweety Gill (Ileana D'Cruz) and plumps for her as Charan's future wife. The trouble is, unbeknownst to the world, Sweety is Karan's girlfriend. She has had the worst possible brush with Jeeto, calling her probable mom-in-law names that the latter doesn't forget in a hurry. The next thing that the cocksure Karan knows is that he is currently the chosen one for Binkle. He, too, seeks the involvement of Kartar in order to wriggle out of the hole he has dig for himself.

The rigmarole is pleasurable up to a point but once the idiocy quotient peaks, the overlong Mubarakan goes rather haywire. Yet, if it isn't as insufferable as other usual Bollywood romantic comedies, a part of the credit goes to the actors. Anil Kapoor, who is as wild as ever, lends some lustre to the proceedings with his impressive energy level and funny one-liners.

Arjun Kapoor is far less dependable in his double role, but he does strike a few purple patches along the way, demonstrating a comic flair that cries out for a better pictures than this one. The script gives Athiya Shetty the rough end of the stick. Her character, as Kartar says at one point, is like a tennis ball being lobbed back and forth among Charan's side of the court and Karan's without being allowed any agency of her own. Mubarakan, nevertheless, gives Ileana D'Cruz far more space and she make the most of the opening.


Neha Sharma, in a particular appearance, is allowed little that could be described as special in a role that definitely deserved more attention. She plays a harsh Muslim girl with a successful law job who does not fit into the mainstream Sikh brood's scheme of things and has to settle for a hurried, last-minute adjustment, which entails jumping into a new bond with Binkle's brother. That's a copout of the worst kind. But to expect nuanced and mould-breaking shared dynamics in a film like Mubarakan is to take it more badly than its makers themselves do.

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