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Starring
Chandrachur Singh, Sushmita Mukherjee, Murli Sharma,
Vindu Dara Singh, Ritika Shrivastava, Erik A Nanda,
Shahbaaz Khan
Director: Manikya Raju
After the
huge success of Hanuman, another film on Lord Hanuman is
released - Maruti Mera Dosst which could have continued
the trend of Hanumanji’s popularity. However this film
targeted supposedly for the kids has been given a U/A
Certificate. Not surprising, since the evil characters
in this film have been given powerful roles and appear
too scary.
Maruti Mera Dosst is about Lord Hanuman and there are
real life characters, witches and innocent little
children. Two kids essaying central roles in this film
which merges real characters with animation. It has some
spectacular visual effects and computer graphics, but it
just falls short of being impressive.
Much to our
dismay, director Manikya Raju’s Maruti Mera Dosst lacks
that certain freshness, naturalness and that innocence
and fun elements that normally appeal to the kids or
even the kids in you.
Maruti Mera Dosst, with its idea and story could have
turned out to be an extremely entertaining and cute
little film for children who are no doubt its prime
target audience. But, its screenplay, story, treatment
and even the execution let it down.
Credits &
Crew
Banner - Contiloe Pictures Production
Producer - Abhimanyu Singh
Director - Manikya Raju
Story - Manikya Raju , Mann Katoja
Screenplay Manikya Raju , Mann Katoja
Cinematography - Sanjeev Mohapatra
Music - Kartik Shah
Lyrics - Subrat Sinha
Playback Singers - Kailash Kher, Hariharan, Kay Kay,
Javed Ali, Armaan Malik, Mansi Bhardwaj, Chandrachur
Singh
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Rameshwari (Ritika Shrivastava) is an innocent eight
year old girl who lost her mother at birth is brought up
by doting albeit naive father Kunwar Raghvendra Singh (Chandrachur
Singh). She longs for nothing but a mother's love, so
this prompts her father Kunwar Raghvendra Singh to marry
Mohini. And that's when the dark forces are released in
Rameshwari's pleasant life since her new stepmother
arrives with the evil lady Kokoi (Sushmita Mukherjee).
The rich father and daughter being unaware, the witch
Kokoi has evil intention of getting rid of them to inherit
all the wealth. Kokoi tries every trick in the book to
harm Rameshwari. She uses black magic and the evil
monstrous Tantrik Bhakshu (Murli Sharma), who has devils
and spirits as his pets.
Kokoi also brings in her brother, a murder convict Sadhu
Pahalwan (Shahbaaz Khan). All in vain since unknown to
them Maruti (Erik Nanda) is Rameshwari's saviour and
bodyguard and they all surprised how this little boy is
able to save his dear friend.
Kokoi is unaware of the power of Rameshwari’s friend
Maruti, who is Lord Hanuman in disguise and his Godly
intervention saves the day. When she sees that her wicked
magic is backfiring because of Maruti, she creates a
situation where Rameshwari herself forces Maruti to take a
vow on Lord Rama's name to leave her and go away, and
never come back. And from then on life poor little girl
Rameshwari has troubles with no end. This time even her
father’s days are now, numbered.
Chandrachur Singh is saddled with limited scope given to
him in what was supposed to be his comeback film.
Sushmita Mukherjee is better however she is over the top
at times. The cute child Ritika Shrivastava makes an
impression as the protagonist, while Shahbaaz Khan,
Sadhu Pahalwan and Erik A Nanda just carry it off. Murli
Sharma appears comfortable in his role.
The camera work is fine but let down with a jarring
background score. Animation sequences and the special
effects are plain tacky in this film which could have been
better if made short in duration.
Starring Chandrachur Singh, Sushmita Mukherjee, Murli
Sharma, Vindu Dara Singh, Ritika Shrivastava, Erik A Nanda,
Shahbaaz Khan
- PAW
Star Cast
Kunwar Raghavendra Singh - Chandrachur Singh
Rameshwari - Ritika Shrivastava
Kokoi - Sushmita Mukherjee
Tantrik Bhakshu - Murli Sharma
Lord Hanuman - Vindu Dara Singh
Sadhu Pahalwan - Shahbaaz Khan
Samiksha
Erik A. Nanda |
