7/15/2023 0 Comments Cirkus orfej![]() Cirkus is a blotchy tribute to that much-loved film devoid of the wit and sophistication of the script that it is inspired by but lacks the wherewithal to replicate.Ĭirkus also weaves a nature-versus-nurture theme into its hollow core - as aspect of the raggedy romp that may or may not remind one the 1951 Raj Kapoor classic Awara and the conversely-themed 1975 melodrama produced by the showman, Dharam Karam. ![]() Cirkus borrows its central idea from William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, which has already seen two iterations in Hindi - Do Dooni Chaar (1968) and Angoor (1982), the former written by Gulzar, the latter also directed by him to make amends for the failure of the first film.Īngoor, with Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma in their elements, ranks among the finest comedies ever to emerge from Mumbai. ![]() If the plot seems hackneyed, there is an obvious reason. This is entertainment so infantile that goes back and forth between the manic and the moronic without serving any real purpose. They run with tiring doses of the latter. The makers of Cirkus have no clue whatsoever about the distinction between inspired lunacy and brainless buffoonery. We do laugh, but only at the sheer vacuity that is on show. The audience is supposed to laugh at their antics. It stretches a thin, puerile storyline into a full-length film about two pairs of twins whose paths cross three decades after being deliberately separated by a doctor who is out to prove that a person's character is determined by upbringing, not the bloodline.īesides the doctor, the script throws in a trio of small-time thieves - they are called Momo, Mango and Chikki but their pranks are anything but palatable - in pursuit of a duffel bag filled with cash. Yunus Sajawal's screenplay runs logic to the ground in search of laughs. His performance comes unstuck owing the sheer inanity of the writing. Here, too, he does pretty much the same, but the two roles that he is stuck with are awfully insipid. Hindi movie fans know Ranveer Singh as an actor who can bring a great deal of natural gusto to a role. As for Pooja Hegde and Jaqueline Fernandez, the less said the better. Even a proven performer like Sanjay Mishra is saddled with a role that that can only get on one's nerves. The lead actor tries hard - way too hard - and the effort shows. And the acting all around is consistently substandard. Its 'comic' gags are pathetically unfunny. The film's gaudy colour palette makes real backdrops look like painted ones. Old Hindi movie songs constitute the spine of the Cirkusbackground music. But with no real imagination on display, Cirkus demonstrates what is amiss with contemporary Hindi films that are aimed at giving a mass audience its money's worth. It makes a song and dance about the debt that it owes to comedy movies of yore. The film has one foot planted firmly in the past, which by itself is not such a bad thing. The only thing that is truly comical about Cirkus is its unmitigated ineptitude. It does neither the medium nor the genre any justice. It is a mind-numbing film that would have done the world a favour by not advancing beyond the script stage. The golmaal is that the vapid caper film goes round and round in circles as it recycles exceedingly trite tropes, shoves them into a garish and turgid package and leaves a bunch of actors led by the effervescent Ranveer Singh (in a double role) with no chance at all of rising above the muddle. Producer-director Rohit Shetty's latest shot at slapstick comedy - a genre that he has had a great deal of success with over the years - is cinema's equivalent of a trash can.
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