Starting Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajesh Verma, Namit Das
Directed by Rajkumar Gupta
Rating: * * * 1/2
He is a lazy lazy lad. And she is one helluva crazy Punjaban whose kookie cooking drives her sullen husband up the nearest wall.
Disgust on the dining-table camouflaged in tons of table-salt, Sanju (Emraan Hashmi, pitch-perfect in his spousal indolence) would probably have gone on tolerating his wife's appalling culinary skills matched only by her hideous fashion sense, if only he didn't decide to pull off one last heist that would make him and his inept cook of a wife rich for the rest of their life.
Take-home food, here we come!
Oh, I forgot to tell you. . . . Hashmi plays an expert lock-picker, the kind of safe-bet who can crack safes faster than we can say 'Saif Ali Khan'. Forgetfulness comes easily in this crazily unpredictable dark comedy about an ordinary Delhi couple's life going unimaginably out-of-control when they decide to mess around with two self-styled bumbling baddies who seem to have modelled their crime life on pirated video prints of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino crime flicks. Really, they suck at their job. Every character in this out-of-the-box comedy is a bit of an ineffectual self-important clown. In trying hard to be cool, they end up looking like fools. And they don't even know it!
Ghanchakkar is a domestic comedy that gets progressively dark and sinister. Some of the film's most riveting moments find our amnesiac hero searching for his own identity and trying to locate the trust factor in his marriage that is threatened by his lack of cogent memory. Director Rajkumar Gupta is the master of straight-faced whimsy. There are no LOL moments in Ghanchakkar. The humour is the kind that hits you in hindsight. Characters such as Pravin Dabas ('Jo hero jaisa dikhta hai') keep popping up for no seeming purpose. But then we begin to realize the plot's larger design is to tell us that there is no real larger design in life. Very often things happen haphazardly and inexplicably because that's the way life is.
The characters and situations in Ghanchakkar are neither relatable or particularly likeable. You really don't want to run into these people even for fun. It's that quality of unbearable selfcentredness that makes the characters so unique in their painful commonness.Many chunks of Gupta's storytelling seem excessively quirky capturing in languid motions, the vagaries of everyday life without whipping up an over-punctuated drama either through the background score or fancy editing patterns. Setu's camera looks at Mumbai's middleclass with affectionate disdain, not judgemental but certainly not aloof either. Some ongoing gags, like the Namit Das character's phone-sex and the guy on the local train returning home with vegetables for his wife who is repeatedly intimidated by Namit Das, just don't hold together. That maybe because this is not comic cinema as we know and acknowledge it.
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