Senseless suffering
Movie name:
Will You Marry Me?
Cast:
Shreyas Talpade, Rajeev Khandelwal, Muzammil Ibrahim, Mugdha Godse, Paresh Rawal, Manoj Joshi, Celina Jaitly
Director:
Aditya Datt
Rating:
Two questions niggled at me while I shifted in my seat, suffering Will You Marry Me? Were Shreyas Talpade and Rajeev Khandelwal kidnapped and forced to act in this film which has no reason to exist? Question 2: Does Mugdha Godse know some special jaadu-tona tricks? How else do you explain two usually talented actors fussing over her for two hours and the camera mooning over her all the time.
Seriously, Will You Marry Me? is so senseless that it makes no sense to discuss it seriously.
The film wants us to believe that middle-aged Talpade and Khandelwal are college boys. That they have silly Eighties stuff going on with their hair is supposed to distract us from the lines of their age.
The story is equally silly. There are, in 2002, three college friends — sharif Aarav (Shreyas Talpade), randy Rajveer (Rajeev Khandelwal), and duffer Nikhil (Muzammil Ibrahim). The three love each other, but only in the “Oye, ladki patayi kya?” sort of way. Rajveer gets a lot of action, Aarav wants to marry every girl he meets and Nikhil is going steady with his collegemate.
But there’s a bigger college gang as well, 14, including these three. After graduation, at one guy’s stag party, Rajveer suggests that they all buy shares — one lakh or some such — and that the last man who stays unmarried will get all of them. “Chal, phir lagi shart”, they say to each other and invest in shares. One by one all get married except these three.
But Nikhil proposes to his girlfriend Anjali, a moment on which Rajveer spits generously. And then, when her parents come to meet Nikhil’s parents, Rajveer and Aarav start a food fight and knock out Anjali’s dad.
Fed up, Anjali says, I can’t marry you, Nikhil, because, one, a certain designer won’t do my wedding dress, and two, your friends are retards and they will ruin our wedding.
Prophetic words these. But Nikhil is a true friend and calls his two buddies to Dubai for the wedding.
Along comes Anjali’s best friend Sneha (Mugdha Godse). Bachelor boys swoon, eavesdrop on her conversation about her likes and dislikes and switch avatars — Rajveer goes seedha-saadha, Aarav got hip.
But then three things happen. Rajveer loses money in a bad investment, which belonged to one gutka king. Gutka king (Paresh Rawal) behaves as if he is the keeper of rattle snakes and that he serves poison in two-rupee packets. Anyway, he wants his money back or, he insists, that Rajveer and Co. kill themselves.
Two, both Aarav and Rajveer are in love with Sneha, but she’s in love with just one of them. Three, the two friends actually ruin Nikhil-Anjali’s wedding.
The two small redeeming things in this atrocity are Paresh Rawal and that Sneha is a cool, modern woman. Mugdha momentarily lifts the film — when she says she dumped her boyfriend because he won’t, you know, do her. But then it’s back to old men acting stupid, and the camera mooning over Ms Godse.
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