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Bheja Fry 2

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Director           Sagar Bellary
Cast                 Vinay Pathak, Kay Kay Menon, Minisha Lamba, Aditi Govitrikar, Suresh Menon, Rahul Vora, Rukhsar, Amol Gupte
Year                2011
Genre              Comedy

It is never easy to make a sequel to a movie. Especially if the first one has been a stupendous success. The expectations of the audience have already been set extremely high. What it does though is ensure that the cash registers at the Box Office are continuously ringing. Music to the ears of the movie hall owners who are anyways having a tough time getting people to come in. However, a not so great sequel leaves the audience feeling distinctly cheated and more importantly ensures that there are no further sequels. May not be completely the case with Bheja Fry as a franchise thanks to one Vinay Pathak who carried the first edition ably on his shoulders - with support from a solid cast and a great script. The makers were sure enough to succeed with BF2 @ the BO. If and when there is a BF3, it will definitely break even thanks to the first one. And if it doesn't do well then u know what the reason would be.

The makers did get the first thing right in retaining Sagar Bellary as the director to ensure consistency of thought. But who was to know that Mr.Bellary had already fallen victim to the commercial aspects of cinema. BF2 is the classic case of, as I had tweeted, the fall of classic comedy to the levels of cheap slapstick humour and just glimpses of classic comedy which were too less for the normal movie goer to catch. What stumps me is that having tasted success with the evergreen genre of classic comedy, why would Bellary take a turn towards the slapstick? And why in the blazes would he get superb performers of the likes of Amol Gupte to stoop down to the levels of inanity on screen. Amol Gupte was surely desperate to get some money into the bank. Vinay Pathak continues to excel at his role of the irritating, "shudh hindi" (chaste hindi) speakinng, simpleton who goes by the name of Bharat Bhushan. The rest of the cast however changes to feature Kay Kay Menon who seems to have forgotten how to act. Minisha Lamba starts slow and seems have been picked to compensate for being just eye candy but then shows glimpses of decent acting before getting relegated the the level of Aditi Govitrikar who was furniture anyways to begin with. The only other noteworthy performance was from Suresh Menon as the sincere uncorruptable IT Officer MT Shekharan who is chasing Ajit Talwar (KK Menon) for IT fraud.

A tacky script, several inconsistencies (like Lamba jumping into the pool and coming out dry with her hair band intact and then again dripping wet in the room still with hair band perfectly held in place), very average music and not so great editing make BF2 a let down. But then most people would have got that from the trailers itself. Just the hope that people live in which dragged them into the halls. 5 on 10 for this one Mr. Bellary - regretably u have disappointed us!!!

Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUBTnqTWc8
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