No Entry

Article Updated 28 August, 2005 01:38:55 PM IST

No Entry

Have Fun! This message is not for the married men in the audience! Jokes apart, it is a joyride for the viewers as well as the actors in it. This film is a sure hit with men, particularly if watched with their buddies or partners-in-crime. It is not really about men wanting to have a bit of fun outside their marriage but more about being trapped in a tricky situation.

Although director Anees Bazmee has written several laugh riots for David Dhawan earlier, this is the first time he is directing a comedy film. And he has done a good job. But there's one drawback. The film should have been slightly shorter. After two hours one gets the feel that comical situations follow in quick succession and becomes a little too much for the audience to handle. But overall it's a fun film and a typical Bollywood masala film- light moments, sex, great locales and good music.

'No Entry' is the story of three friends; the happy-go-lucky married man, Prem (Salman Khan), the happily married and faithful Kishen (Anil Kapoor), and the carefree bachelor, Sunny (Fardeen Khan). The faithful Kishen has an extremely suspicious wife, Kajal (Lara Dutta) while playboy Prem has an extra trusting wife, Pooja (Esha Deol). Sunny's girlfriend, Sanjana (Celina Jaitley), is slightly bad-tempered.

There is trouble when Kishen, a newspaper editor, decides to expose Prem's womanizing ways in his paper. Assisting him is Sunny. Prem decides to get even with Kishen by forcing the sexy Bobby (a slightly heavy and not so desirable Bipasha Basu) into his arms! Even Sunny gets trapped in the mess. This obviously leads to chaos and confusion!

When Kajal catches Kishen red-handed with Bobby, he convinces her that Bobby is Sunny's wife. Sunny tricks Sanjana into believing that Bobby is Kishen's wife. To top it all there's a Minister (Boman Irani) in the picture. His womanizing ways had been exposed by the Kishen-Sunny duo in their newspaper. If this in not bad enough, then Kishen-Kajal and Sunny-Sanjana end up going for a holiday in the same hotel in Mauritius. Bobby too lands up there to complete the family picture!

Now there's utter chaos what with Sanjana under the impression that Bobby is Kishen's wife and Kajal thinking of her as Sunny's wife. Aren't you wondering what Prem is up to while all this is happening! Well, he's as usual having a good time with a bevy of females around him in South Africa. All's well that ends well! So it is in this film too.

The film has the right punch lines and the actors have superb comic timing. Salman's entry in the film with a song is superb. It sums up his character in the film. Need we add that he fits the role brilliantly! Anil's expressions and sighs of relief every time he escapes getting caught by Kajal are really funny. The sequence in the shopping mall is extremely funny. Fardeen is confident. The Fardeen-Celina marriage sequence is too funny.

All the three actors have delivered good performances but Salman scores over the rest. The audience is sure to miss him post-interval when he disappears for a while. He is a riot in every scene that he's there and is hilarious in the climax scene. Boman Irani and Pratima Kazmi are wasted. Their track is not developed well.

Lara is competent but Esha Deol seems wasted. Celina is a bad performer and looks garish in most of the scenes. Her hot pants in the romantic song with Fardeen look crude! Bipasha would have suited the character of a seductress better in her present slimmed-down n toned-up state. Sameera Reddy makes a surprise entry towards the end and looks very tempting.

A mass appeal film that looks like its set to score especially with a dearth of good entertainers.

*** (Three stars)
*poor; **average; ***good; ****very good; *****excellent

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