The Cricket fever is
over and the indefinite strike called by single screen theatre
owners in Mumbai has also ended. After the heartbreaking defeat in
Lahore test by 9 wickets, people want to elevate their mood and the
weekend is freer than usual because Good Friday as a holiday. Since
summer has set in the people find it difficult to go out for fun and
picnic. So, the best bet is to watch the new comedy on the block 'Masti'
directed by none other than Indra Kumar who has super hits like 'Dil',
'Beta', 'Raja' and 'Ishq' to his credit. 'Masti' is a life history
of three friends, Meet (Vivek Oberoi), Amar (Ritesh Deshmukh) and
Prem (Aftab Shivdasani). They are campus friends and believe in fun
and frolics of life. They live the life to the hilt and want to
enjoy it to its fullest. But their liveliness is at stake once they
are married. Heavily burdened by the over demanding wives they make
plan to look out for some entertainment outside the confines of the
bedroom and search for the Baharwalis. They also plan to share their
experiences of this adultery between them. But before they could set
about on a fun ride, they found themselves trapped in a crime that
not only has a threat to put all of them behind the bars but there
is also a danger of getting themselves exposed in front of their
wives. Indra Kumar has emerged as a winner in 'Masti' after long.
His last two films 'Mann' with Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala and 'Rishtey'
with Anil Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor were major debacles of his time.
Distributors lost faith in Indra Kumar and he had to do some thing
extraordinary to save his skin this time around. So he chose a
subject that has become the in thing in Bollywood, adultery. There
have been too many films in the recent past dealing with the
subject. But while films like 'Hawas' and 'Murder' have their
adequate share of skin show, 'Masti' deals the same delicate issue
with fun.
The Big B has a date
in Birmingham. The Madame Tussaud's model will be placed at Birmingham
Museum & Art Gallery's Cinema India exhibition until April 20. The free
Cinema India exhibition also features film posters from the 1950s to the
present day, with song booklets and lobby cards. Costumes, beauty
products and jewelry inspired by the films will be on show, along with
Bollywood dance workshops, music and yoga.