This is one of the ever green films and hugely popular in our family, inasmuch that even my father, who in his entire life mustn't have watched more than 30-40 films, loves it to bits and never misses it if he ever catches a TV channel showing it, it without a shadow of doubt being his all-time favourite comedy film. So I had arranged this for myself just to re-live those childhood memories, those moments when it used to make me laugh for even hours afterwards. There're no two ways about the fact that I fully enjoyed it again, although I'm not too well right now and lack of concentration has been a big issue for me of late.
There are different kinds of comedy films, from which of one kind are those that are based on funny dialogues and scenes, and then those which completely thrive the set of misunderstandings that are built from the first part of the film to the climax. 'Hungama' falls into the latter category, and in what a tremendous way it qualifies for that category! The misunderstandings are so many and they come in so many different forms that one even feels slight bit of sympathy for Mr. Tiwari; from an affair it escalates into having a son from another marriage to a daughter from another marriage!
Some scenes are so so ridiculously funny and outrageous that the whole imagination captures the comedy, like the scene of being caught in the bushes, to seeing his wife's supposed boyfriend look around in the house for his wife and even boldly asking where she is, to Jeetu asking Mr. Tiwari to hand over his wife to him with, of course, his 'aashirvaad'. So it's a brilliantly made film and must go down as amongst Priyadarshan's finest works. It is a Bollywood classic that I don't think will ever get old.
There are different kinds of comedy films, from which of one kind are those that are based on funny dialogues and scenes, and then those which completely thrive the set of misunderstandings that are built from the first part of the film to the climax. 'Hungama' falls into the latter category, and in what a tremendous way it qualifies for that category! The misunderstandings are so many and they come in so many different forms that one even feels slight bit of sympathy for Mr. Tiwari; from an affair it escalates into having a son from another marriage to a daughter from another marriage!
Some scenes are so so ridiculously funny and outrageous that the whole imagination captures the comedy, like the scene of being caught in the bushes, to seeing his wife's supposed boyfriend look around in the house for his wife and even boldly asking where she is, to Jeetu asking Mr. Tiwari to hand over his wife to him with, of course, his 'aashirvaad'. So it's a brilliantly made film and must go down as amongst Priyadarshan's finest works. It is a Bollywood classic that I don't think will ever get old.