One monkey, two photographers and a murder-mystery form the backdrop to portray the quintessential nexus between the corrupt Indian politico-administrative class and the honest, trying-to-make-ends-meet class. Naseer shows his class as a comedian with excellent timing along with Ravi Baswani who is his usual squeaky-voiced, slapstick self. Satish Shah displays his firang-accented comical side while Pankaj Kapoor is the hair-trigger-temper top builder of Mumbai, with a sexy Nina Gupta as his secretary and Satish Kaushik his henchman-cum-competitor-for-Nina. But Om Puri takes the piece of cake with his booze tinged punjabi-accent with a mania for sports cars.
This movie was a pathbreaker in the field of Indian mainstream-comedy, which usually stuck to the safe, tried-and-tested Chaplin-style "comedy". Unfortunately, innovative scenes, unforgettable dialogues, tickling backdrops and excellent acting were not enough to save this movie from bombing at the box-office.
Although I've seen this movie more than seven times, it has never failed to amuse me. A must-see for a comedy-freak, this movie is a collectors-edition sorts. If it were to be re-released today, there's a distinct possibility of it faring much better at the hands of the XY-generation than the baby-boomers.
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