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Definitely one of the funniest movie I have seen in a long time. One thing leading to another in a village full of uneducated people.

Paresh Rawal is undoubtedly one of Bollywood's finest and best actors when it comes to essaying such character driven roles as the greedy lottery ticket salesman he plays in Malamaal Weekly. It's almost hard to believe that it's the same guy who played the guru cultist in 'No Smoking' and then the suave lawyer , he is just too good.

Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rajpal Yadav and Seema Biswas are all in their element as they round out the cast in supporting roles. I really liked this film and I recommend it to others.

In the city of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

The woman in the sidecar going around the village is just hilarious. By the way she (Sudha Chandran) fits the part well with her svengali makeup, heavy jewelery and zabardast attitude, that is in total reverse of a typical village woman-and that in itself is funny. Then we have probably the greatest comedy characters of the Indian Cinema-Paresh Rawal and Om Puri-the Laurel and Hardy of Hindi comedy. Just looking at these two brings a chuckle. Priyadarshan, is one of the few producers who understand comedy unlike these "Banchods of Bollywood" producing filthy toilet humor movies like "Delhi Belly" and "Three Idiots" which is demeaning to Indians and comedy at the expense of the Indians. These scum maggots donot represent India nor Indians and they should be kicked out of the industry and sent back to where they came from. This is a movie that has a subtle meaning behind the comedy. Few scenes are redundant like the dead Anthony ending up on the tree. Some of the subplots are too drawn out. I guess this is to satisfy the average movie goer in a village who wants paisa vasool and and an eyecandy "Item number" which in this context is provided by Rakhi Sawant. It would have been nice that if she were to be one of the charecteres in the village, instead of just an item. The movie is enjoyable-for the masses who are starved for good comedy.

I really like the flow of movie. Because it shows all kinds of usual and unusual situations which might occur and how cunningly to handle them. The lesson I learn is "If you get something which is not your own then take it but not alone, also distribute among those who needs it". One more lesson "You one lie force you to speak thousand more lie". The whole movie revolves around the concept "Money can anybody blind". Movie involves people from village whose thinking is different from urban people. In village any sort of issue spread as fire but if the same movie involved urban people, story would be completely different.

I appreciate way of showing the greediness on screen.

Something is wrong out there. The genre of comedy is not going through a very good phase in Bollywood. There was a time when a movie like "Malamaal Weekly" would have been very highly appreciated for its great slap-stick, nincompoop approach to humor. Unfortunately, a new wave of directors have set such high standards in film-making, scripting and screenplay, that an idiot-ride like the one under mention here cannot go unpunished.

The heavy dosage of actors cannot save this film. In fact, they are just as much to blame in messing it up. Except, perhaps Ritesh Deshmukh, who gets better with his films. Let's go through the cast, one by one: Paresh Rawal: Plays Lilaram, the lottery ticket seller. Bad teeth, worse jokes. Not as annoying as he was in Garam Masala, but seems to be fading out on the comedy scene. A possible favorite of Priyadarshan, and no doubt a brilliant actor, but this director has worn him out. Give him something new to do.

Om Puri: ballu, the milkman. Now, why is it that we see Om Puri, a great character artist of commercial and parallel cinema, doing comedy so often. i feel he has limited ability in comedy. he seems to be playing the same kind of character over and over again. Slightly temperamental, very opinionated, etc. Leave him to his serious roles.

Rajpal Yadav: Nothing new ever comes out of him.

Asrani: He's an "Angrezon ke zamane ka comedian". This generation needs something else to laugh.

Shakti Kapoor: They're still offering him movies?? Innocent: Really famous comedian from South India, but I think his voice was dubbed by Tiku Talsania.

Ritesh Deshmukh: The only decent performance in the movie. His scenes are the most bearable.

Reema Sen: Plays the village belle. Wears make-up all the time.

Arbaaz Khan: Confused and hurried as usual.

I am not going to discuss the plot, but overall the movie was stretched beyond tolerance and the amount of characters that were there was completely unnecessary. If you want to watch an actually funny movie along the same lines, watch "Rat Race". I think "Malamaal Weekly" could've been inspired by that.

I bamboozled my sister into going to this movie since I'd heard such a lot about it and had a lot of expectations. Needless to say ... we were both sorely disappointed by what we were subjected to!

For starters,the movie is a slap-stick of the worst kind! There are portions that are funny, but by and large, one has to make a major effort to even figure out what the jokes are all about. It's almost like someone trying to tickle one forcibly to elicit some laughter, but all that one succeeds at is to make the person ill-humoured and crabby!

Why does Paresh Rawal need to wear a pair of dentures that start out by looking like they need to be cleaned ... then this happens (that is there are a couple of scenes where the dentures are sparkling), only to be stained again, probably when the continuity-man notices the flaw! Paresh Rawal has tremendous comic potential ... his acting calibre is truly remarkable. Why did he accept a role in such a "D-graded" movie??

Most of the senior, established actors, though talented, seem to have wasted their efforts in this movie. Rajpal Yadav too seems to have got stuck in a rut with his mannerisms and dialogue delivery. He should try to break out of this mould before his style becomes any more clichéd!

As for Riteish Deshmukh ... he was about the only pleasant surprise. He's probably best suited to the role of the smart-aleck villager ... or at any rate, he's portrayed his role very well! As for his love interest ... the less one says about her, the better!! She behaves like a socialite who's been thrust into a rural setting ... and hates every moment of it!

There are quite a few discrepancies other than the one mentioned above. Anthony's position, expression etc. change through the movie. As for his sister, Mary, there are at least a couple of times that she utters, "Hey! Bhagawan!" ...IN SPITE of being a Christian!

Being an animal lover, I found selling the pet goat to the butcher, in very bad taste. It could have been avoided.

The situations are also very forced and this mars the general flow of the narration.

All in all, what with all the advertisement and hype leading up to the release of the movie (including a "lottery") one expects a bit more than what one gets.

I would sincerely dissuade people from spending large sums of money (thanks to the rates at Inox!) in order to see this film. Those who do go and see it ...well, don't tell me that you weren't warned!!