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'Apna Sapna Money Money' - A wacky comedy

By Nikhil Kumar
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

Here comes yet another slapstick comedy filled with madcap characters in search of hidden diamonds. Sangeeth Sivan’s movie ‘Apna Sapna Money Money’ is a corny, crowded entertainer that banks majorly on crass and crude humour.

Wit is not something you should expect from a movie like ‘Money Money’. The comedy in the movie is juvenile and at times even childish. Yet there are some sequences that turn out to be immensely entertaining. These sequences mostly come from Ritesh Deshmukh, the young star with a very natural flair for comedy.

The movie has no concrete story to write home about. Even the plot keeps veering off the track due to the presence of too many characters in the story. In this muddle, good, laughable humour flashes through intermittently, but the movie gets heavy and begins to drag as it approaches the end.

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film is full of several wacky characters. There is an underworld don (Jackie Shroff) gone bankrupt. His moll Sania Badnaam (Celina Jaitley) has a bag of diamonds that could revive his fortunes again.

There is a rogue Kishan (Ritesh Deshmukh) with a natural gift to dupe people without slightest of compunction. There is a mechanic Arjun (Shreyas Talpade) head-over-heels in love with Shivani (Riya Sen), daughter of an overprotective father Pandit Shastri (Anupam Kher).

There is a chief (Chunky Pandey) of a Nepali gang baying for Kishan’s blood. There is a tabela owner (Rajpal Yadav) who imitates Amitabh Bachchan from movie ‘Sarkar’. There is an honest cop (Sunil Shetty) out to catch a bunch of criminals.

In this big crowd, the movie’s story gets lost somewhere as Kishan is smitten with dancer Julie (Koena Mitra), and his cousin (Shreyas) falls for a stubborn pandit’s daughter (Riya). Kishan helps his cousin in winning his ladylove and at the same time also puts his enemies off his trail by assuming different get-ups.

He slips into the guise of a woman to play his cousin’s aunt Sania. Unfortunately, Pandit Shastri falls for him (disguised as her).

And the diamonds that everyone is after is closer to Kishan than he suspects. A series of slapstick situations crop up as one character after another joins the mad race to find the booty that is worth crores.

The prominent flaw of ‘Money Money’ is that its humour is very generic. The movie’s script is like mishmash of old, outdated jokes given a new tenor by situational twists and turns. The movie’s music (by Pritam) further adds to the woes of a viewer.

However, some actors stand above the film’s ordinary script and make the movie watchable. Ritesh Deshmukh is a laugh riot in his various getups. His comic timing, his facial reactions, his expressions and the very tone of his dialogues evoke laughter.

Rajpal Yadav and Chunky Pandey also chip in moments of quality humour. Anupam Kher is very entertaining.

The actresses (Celina, Koena and Riya) basically add glamour and oomph to the proceedings.

Sunil Shetty is likeable. Jackie Shroff is over-the-top.

On the whole, ‘Apna Sapna Money Money’ is no great shakes. But in the confusing melee of its madcap characters, you do find some real good moments of hearty laughter.

In short, ‘Money Money’ is a good timepass entertainer if you don’t value your time and money too much.

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