Article Updated 29 January, 2005 01:43:05 PM IST   Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav By Prema K. ©2005 Bollyvista.com   Director Mahesh Manjrekar was surely doped out while directing and acting in this disastrous film. To begin with it feels like an amateur school play. Actually even they are better these days. The film is not just bad, it is pathetic and an insult to one’s sensibilities. But on the flip side one sits through the film despite being thoroughly bored for only one reason- to see how bad a bad film can be! The humour is cheap in most places that it makes one laugh, not because it is funny but it is a laugh at the director. The main characters are Masumeh (Padma), Suniel Shetty (Laloo), Mahesh Manjrekar (Prasad), and Johny Lever (Yadav). This is how the film obtained its title. Like one really cares! Laloo suffers from some weird sort of Nymphomania, where he goes out of control when he sees a good-looking girl. However, he is in love only with Padma and plans to marry her soon. Laloo’s lady love, Padma, is oblivious of his philandering ways and regards him as a complete fool when it comes to women. He also lies to her that he is an actor when he is actually working for a small time underworld guy, Tommy (Sharat Saxena). Trouble between Laloo and Tommy begins when the latter catches Laloo in bed with his girlfriend, Polly (Kim Sharma). Both Padma and Polly look like complete tarts right from their clothes to their body language. So we don’t really blame Laloo for his adventures. A furious Tommy goes screaming to Padma about Laloo’s philandering ways with enough proof. A shocked Padma breaks away from Laloo and sets out to Cape Town to recover some diamonds that were stolen from her father by his partner. Laloo surprises her by landing there before her and promises to help her. They realize that the diamonds have been kept in a bank by her father’s partner but unfortunately he dies of a heart attack. The only way of recovering the diamonds now is to rob the bank. What follows is a crazy sequence of events that have to be watched for their sheer stupidity. The duo encounters Prasad, Yadav, and a local thug, Johnny (Gulshan Grover) in their quest for the diamonds. Yadav is Johny’s sidekick while Prasad is his defending lawyer. Now for the performances. Masume and Suniel deliver. After watching the film, one also concludes why Masume was cast despite being a non-looker. Surely no heroine, except someone really desperate, would agree to be pawed at by almost all the men in the film. Padma has to play love games with Prasad, Yadav, and Johny besides being Laloo’s official girl. Kim Sharma hardly has anything to do except for body display and pout all the time. Sharat Saxena tries very hard to be funny. The one who takes the cake for his cheap antics that are actually meant to be funny is Mahesh Manjrekar. One wonders if he is living his fantasies on screen. He is crude in most places. Gulshan Grover and Johny Lever are wasted. The music, and cinematography is nothing to really rave about. The dialogue is funny in few places but otherwise a film best avoided. * (ONE STAR) *poor; **average; ***good; ****very good; *****excellent   close   Print this Article http://www.bollyvista.com   http://www.bollyvista.com/article/a/29/4108