Apna Sapna Money Money

Article Updated 12 November, 2006 12:06:30 AM IST

Apna Sapna Money Money

This is unintelligent cinema at its best. So just go and be part of this mad crowd. It's full of humour, although crass at times, generous doses of skin show, some catchy songs, and oodles of fun. It's a typical mass appeal entertainer which is sure to fetch returns for the producer.

The maddening crowd in the film is an assorted lot. Shreyas Talpade, a goody goody car mechanic, his conman cousin (Riteish Deshmukh), a bar dancer who aims to cut a music video album some day (Koena Mitra), a cop (Suniel Shetty), a homely girl (Riya Sen) and her father (Anupam Kher), a wannabe don (Rajpal Yadav), a gangster (Chunkey Pandey), a don (Jackie Shroff) and his moll (Celina Jaitley). There's a dog too besides a few other characters. Doesn't it sound like too many characters in one film. That's one of the flawed areas of the film. There's no scope to develop the characters and their tracks well.

There's no real story in the film except as the title of the film suggests, there's a quest for diamonds worth 50 crores. The Shreyas-Riya Sen love story thrown into this comic caper lacks luster. But it is the reason for a lot of confusion in the film courtesy Riteish Deshmukh. The chemistry between Riteish and Shreyas is good and could have been exploited well.

The performances. Two actors who really stand out in this film are Riteish Deshmukh and Anupam Kher. Ritesh puts on various getups and looks convincing in all of them, especially as Sania, Shreyas' aunt who flirts with Anupam Kher. Both of them are in great form. Ritesh and Anupam's scenes are hilarious.

Rajpal Yadav is superb, as usual. Suniel Shetty is soon finding his groove as a comic actor. He's excellent when he breaks into Marathi and also in his scenes with Avatar Gill.

Of the girls, Celina Jaitley's resorts to what she's best at; glamour. She turns on the glamour quotient full on. But one also admires her confidence as an actor. Koena Mitra is decent. Riya Sen looks subdued in an Indian avatar. Jackie Shroff is okay. Shreyas Talpade's role doesn't give him much scope for performance but he does justice to his character. Chunkey Pandey is adequate. Vrajesh Hirjee, and Bobby Darling lend him able support.

Pritam's music sounds crazy to the ear but doesn't have the same effect on screen.

Like we said before, this is a film aimed at the front benchers. It might also appeal to the crazy young crowd and may even prove to be a hit with the family audience in some places.

** (Two Stars)

*poor; **average; ***good; ****very good; *****excellent

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