'Chatur Singh Two Star';
Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Ameesha Patel, Suresh Menon, Anupam Kher, Gulshan Grover, Rati Agnihotri, Shakti Kapoor;
Directed by: Ajay Chandok;
This is not a film for polished actor like Sanjay Dutt. The actor who gave very well intense performances as 'Raghu' in Vaastav and ticked the recognizable funny bone as 'Munna' in the 'Munnabhai' series has absolutely undone everything he has achieved so far with his doubtfully comic caper Chatur Singh Two Star.
Dutt plays a blundering cop named Chatur Singh (complete with a bad wig and an overhanging paunch) who seems suspicious of everything including his daily milkman. Dutt and his equally idiotic assistant Pappu (Suresh Menon) merrily go about making a trouble of themselves. Their long suffering commissioner Sinha (Anupam Kher) sends Chatur on a mission to protect a corrupt minister Y.Y. Singh (Gulshan Grover) who gets himself admitted in hospital to avoid being arrested for some scam.
In the meantime, Singh's bimbo secretary and PR advisor Sonia (Ameesha Patel) is blackmailed by a shady gang to lure Grover with an 'item song' to the window of the hospital room where he is shot by a sniper. A shocked Sonia who claims she was unaware of the murder plot is also whisked away to South Africa by the bad guys who bank on Chatur's idiocy for facilitating the escape so that Sonia can help recover a cache of diamonds that the minister had hid using the help of a don Gullu Gulfaam.
Chatur gets blamed for Sonia's escape and he begs for another chance to redeem himself by apprehending Sonia which the slain minister's wife (Rati Agnihotri) agrees to and a harried commissioner Sinha gives the go-ahead. Landing inSouth Africa
Another gent who keeps running into the dimwit Chatur is an unknown insane man (Satish Kaushik) who Chatur tries to get rid of without much apparent success.
After sporting unreasonable clothes aimed at disguising himself and pretending to be a detective fromItaly
The don informs our hero that the diamonds are with Gulfaam who has lost his memory after an incident and Chatur discovers that Gulfaam is none other than the insane man who kept running into him. In the meantime, commissioner Sinha too joins the fray and pretending to be a doctor at the suggestion of Chatur, advises the goons to bash up Gulfaam on the head constantly till he regains his memory.
The head bashing seems to work and Gulfaam gets his memory back. The diamonds are hid somewhere in a jungle park and for some idiotic reason; all the characters (including the taxi driver!) dress up as animals and fool around chasing each other for the packet of diamonds.
In the end it is discovered that Y.Y. Singh's wife was the main criminal who got her husband killed and orchestrated the whole escapade to acquire the diamonds. Handcuffs are slapped on her wrists and a grateful Sonia hugs Chatur, who get promoted.
As far as performances go, the whole team is steady in the sense that everyone hams like there's no tomorrow.
Sanjay Dutt's bad hair job, paunch and dressing style remind one of those B-Grade films the tickets of which are bought only by passionate couples looking for three hours of exciting intimacy. The script, screenplay, dialogues and the music of the film seem to compete with each other to achieve something from this unusual script.
In summary, it is an average film. It is not an exciting comedy to spend 3 hours in cinema hall!
Dutt plays a blundering cop named Chatur Singh (complete with a bad wig and an overhanging paunch) who seems suspicious of everything including his daily milkman. Dutt and his equally idiotic assistant Pappu (Suresh Menon) merrily go about making a trouble of themselves. Their long suffering commissioner Sinha (Anupam Kher) sends Chatur on a mission to protect a corrupt minister Y.Y. Singh (Gulshan Grover) who gets himself admitted in hospital to avoid being arrested for some scam.
In the meantime, Singh's bimbo secretary and PR advisor Sonia (Ameesha Patel) is blackmailed by a shady gang to lure Grover with an 'item song' to the window of the hospital room where he is shot by a sniper. A shocked Sonia who claims she was unaware of the murder plot is also whisked away to South Africa by the bad guys who bank on Chatur's idiocy for facilitating the escape so that Sonia can help recover a cache of diamonds that the minister had hid using the help of a don Gullu Gulfaam.
Chatur gets blamed for Sonia's escape and he begs for another chance to redeem himself by apprehending Sonia which the slain minister's wife (Rati Agnihotri) agrees to and a harried commissioner Sinha gives the go-ahead. Landing in
Another gent who keeps running into the dimwit Chatur is an unknown insane man (Satish Kaushik) who Chatur tries to get rid of without much apparent success.
After sporting unreasonable clothes aimed at disguising himself and pretending to be a detective from
The don informs our hero that the diamonds are with Gulfaam who has lost his memory after an incident and Chatur discovers that Gulfaam is none other than the insane man who kept running into him. In the meantime, commissioner Sinha too joins the fray and pretending to be a doctor at the suggestion of Chatur, advises the goons to bash up Gulfaam on the head constantly till he regains his memory.
The head bashing seems to work and Gulfaam gets his memory back. The diamonds are hid somewhere in a jungle park and for some idiotic reason; all the characters (including the taxi driver!) dress up as animals and fool around chasing each other for the packet of diamonds.
In the end it is discovered that Y.Y. Singh's wife was the main criminal who got her husband killed and orchestrated the whole escapade to acquire the diamonds. Handcuffs are slapped on her wrists and a grateful Sonia hugs Chatur, who get promoted.
As far as performances go, the whole team is steady in the sense that everyone hams like there's no tomorrow.
Sanjay Dutt's bad hair job, paunch and dressing style remind one of those B-Grade films the tickets of which are bought only by passionate couples looking for three hours of exciting intimacy. The script, screenplay, dialogues and the music of the film seem to compete with each other to achieve something from this unusual script.
In summary, it is an average film. It is not an exciting comedy to spend 3 hours in cinema hall!
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