Chup Chup Ke: Laugh Silently!

Chup Chup Ke

Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Sunil Shetty,Rajpal Yadav
Paresh Rawal, Sushma Reddy, Shakti Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Om Puri, Amita Nangia, Manoj Joshi.
Producer: Ronnie Screwvala, Director: Priyadarshan

A few names in bollywood have become synonyms for laughter - Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav are of course the pivotal ones among them. Rawal has been doing his best in comedies this season like Malamal Weekly, Phir Herapheri and now Chup-Chup Ke.

But unlike these two movies the comedy in Chup Chup Ke is less situational and more deliberately added in the characters.

Adding to the comic character of the movie, the cast includes veterans like Om Puri and Shakti Kapoor. Rawal and Puri - always up against each other, perhaps do not create an atmosphere as good as they did in Malamal Weekly. But still keep the show going. Shot mostly in whites, the movie looks good as most of the environment has been assimilated in the characters.

The film starts at a very serious note, provided by a tense father (Anupam Kher), who is fed up of the deeds and lies of his good for nothing son (Shahid Kapur), which in turn prompts him to commit suicide. No doubt the hero is saved but instead of losing his memory (as is expected in Bollywood), he loses something else or at least pretends to lose his power of hearing and speech.

Thanks to Paresh Rawal, Shahid lands up in a Gujarati family where he meets his love Kareena Kapoor. The mute chemistry between the two is not difficult to gauge.
But the film loses its initial charm in the second half, where it becomes more of a family drama and it seems as if the imaginative flight of the director has suddenly taken a downward plunge or at least there is lot of confusion in his mind from which one can guess the punch line of the film came, love meets confusion meets loveā€¦

The music is good, though forgettable with time. Some inputs of folk Gujarati music are a refreshing change and so is seeing Suniel Shetty shaking a leg.