It is content with being another low-budget mass-friendly comedy which will be forgotten almost immediately. Despite being the funniest thing about Apna Sapna., he is underutilized, and you wish for more of him.ĭespite a serviceable cast and a gag-laden script, the film never tries to reach higher. His is the most madcap character and his chemistry with Sunil Pal is palpable. Jackie has a funny bone that is not used well here, but the most criminal is Rajpal's short run. Koena and Celina are meant to look pretty and flash cleavage all around, and do what they are paid for. Shreyas gets the thankless job of swooning and pining, but does that with earnestness. Ritesh manages to carry most of the film on his shoulders with a confident and irreverent performance that keeps the film fresh. Of course, the gags would have been a waste if the cast could not keep up with the racy script. Surprisingly, despite the flawed and hole-ridden plot, the film manages to keep the gag quotient up by introducing funny lines, puns, slurs and some innuendo, most of them the crowd-pleaser variety, but some real witty ones hidden here and there. The story is, as to be expected, only to serve up the jokes, and stops making sense long before the finale hits. Needless to say, there is a lot of running around, plenty of gags and general buffoonery before the film reaches its even more harum-scarum finale. Then Ritesh goes ahead and does a drag act and names himself Sania as well. Carlos decides to enlist the help of MataPrasad (Rajpal Yadav), a dairy owner with a Sarkar hangover. When the bumbling inspector Namane (Suniel Shetty) zeroes in on her, she hides the aforementioned 50 karodon ke heeray in a bag that Kishan picks up. The cousin, Kishan (Ritesh Deshmukh), is a con man with a disguise fetish, and agrees to come help him when his latest scam invites the ire of local Gorkhas, led by Rana (Chunkey Pandey).Īdded to the mix is Sania (Celina Jaitley), who is a carrier girl for a fearsome but going-bankrupt mafioso, Carlos (Jackie Shroff). To help him get his girl, Arjun asks his cousin to help him. Even if the plot and treatment borders on the silly.Īpna Sapna Money Money is about a hapless next door mechanic Arjun (Shreyas Talpade), who is smitten by the sweet girl next door Shivani (Riya Sen), whose father, the reverent but half blind Pandit Shastri (Anupam Kher) does not approve. This is a film that knows its target audience, and serves up all kinds of funny to please them. The people who enjoy this kind of comedy will enjoy the movie's plentiful gags, and the ones who do not have a fair idea of the film and will stay away. The entire discussion of the film's merit is moot, however, as this is the kind of film everyone knows what to expect of. There are some new things added to the milieu which range from interesting (Nepali Gorkhas as an organized ring) to the plain silly (there are many, but a glaring example is a close-up of a buffalo's behind), and all this is served in a riot of colors and a loud background score. A hapless boy next door in love, a garibon ki basti, a smart-alec hero, a silly villain, plentiful cleavage and thunder thighs, a drag act (coupled with an oldie falling for the 'woman'), ' karodon ke heeray', innuendo laden gags, a confusion laden climax where everyone runs around, a hapless guy who gets punched a lot, and, of course, Rajpal Yadav. In which case, who better to create a low budget slapstick than Sangeeth Sivan, the man who surprised everyone when Kya Kool Hai Hum hit the big time? Apna Sapna Money Money is a by-the-numbers comedy with all the ingredients that are deemed 'funny' by the makers. No prizes for guessing which group Apna Sapna Money Money belongs to, but the fact remains that making a comedy and raking in the moolah has become a lucrative and simple mantra in Bollywoodland, and Mukta Arts too sees this as a quick way of creating funds for the higher budget outings they intend to invest in. There are the Priyadarshan confusion riots, the Hrishikesh Mukherjee hearkening Munnabhais and Khoslas, and then there are the low-budget slapstick-y Mastis and Kya Kool Hai Hums.
Comedy has become big business in Bollywood of late.
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