Film: 'Shakal Pe Mat Ja'; Cast: Shubh, Pratik Katare,
Chitrak Bandhopadhyay, Harish Parekh, Umang Jain, Rajkumar Kanojia,
Saurabh Shukla, Raghuveer Yadav, Aamna Shariff, Zakir Hussain, Mushtaq
Khan, Joy Sengupta, Aditya Lakhia and Pradeep Kabra; Director: Shubh
Mukherjee; Rating: *
'Shakal Pe Mat Ja' is a Gaasmandu film!!!! If you don't understand
what it means, well this is the lingo of today's generation that is
often used in this film, meaning 'All Gas'.
A light-hearted comedy, the film is literally a one-day show in terms
of the time span of the story and as well as its exhibition.
The prologue begins with an absurd amateurish scene of the 55th World
Terrorist Awards taking place in some god-forsaken prison, where the
prize for the best terrorist is given to a bearded Rohan Govardhan
Malhotra. This leaves you assured that you are watching a slipshod
attempt at exposing the slice of life in a terror-fixated society.
It all happens one fine day in Delhi when Ankit (Shubh Mukherjee),
his younger brother Dhruv (Pratik) and friends Rohan and Bulai are out
to shoot a documentary on terrorism.
In order to capture a brilliant shot of a low flying commercial
plane, the foursome land up at the periphery of Delhi international
airport. After the shot, they are accosted by the police and arrested
as suspects. They are brought before the inept airport security cop,
Raghuveer Yadav.
With Bulai and Rohan having unconventional looks, the handycam having
shots of sensitive areas of Delhi combined with the idiom - 'looks can
be deceptive' the four are grilled.
For further interrogation, the Anti-Terrorist Squad is roped in.
Vijay Dinanath Chauhan (Saurabh Shukla), the ATS officer, and his
assistant (Joy Sengupta), play perfect buffoons as investigating officer
and his man Friday.
The story takes a twist, when an actual terrorist, O-mama (Zakir
Hussain) with his terror network, Al- Baqueda, plans to blow up a plane.
With characters like Wasabi, Riyazbhai, Rafiq and Ameena - a set of
amateur jihadis added by deceptive goof-ups, mistaken identities and
madness created by comedy of errors, the film reaches its climax when
the four guys by default bust the terrorists' plot.
The music and background score by Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, Nitin Kumar and Yo Yo Singh is too loud and disappointing.
Shaurabh Shukla, Raghubir Yadav, Mustaq Khan, Joy Sengupta, Aamana Sharif and Zakir Husain try to elevate the film, but alas!
Subh Mukherjee as the actor-writer-director seems to be a bundle of
talent that needs channelising. Some of the scenes are well handled. In
short, the film is good in parts.
With no pedigreed casting, hackneyed scenes and dialogues inspired
from recent films, the film lacks the novelty factor that one looks in
for first time filmmakers' projects. The treatment is so mediocre that
it seems like a well-made college project.
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