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Starring Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey, Vatsal Seth,
Aashish Chaudhary, Neha Dhupia, Riya Sen, Sayali Bhagat,
Celina Jaitley
Directed by Paritosh Painter
What happens when four young
fun loving boys (Shreyas Talpade, Jaaved Jaffrey,
Aashish Chowdhary and Vatsal Sheth) begin a crazy house
hunt which takes them through a series of ultra comical
hurdles in a bid to find that one roof that can tolerate
and shelter their combined problems?
Paying Guests starts of well,
but its narrative seems be directionless by midway. There
are some funny moments, okay. But at times, the characters
try so hard to tickle your funny bone, but fall flat.
The four guys Shreyas, Javed,
Ashish and then Vatsal, and the landlords Johny Lever and
Delnaaz Paul do well in their parts.
The four leading ladies have
nothing worthwhile to do. Celina and Neha are a shade
better than the other two ladies Riya and Sayali Bhagat.
Credits & Crew:
Directed by Paritosh Painter
Produced by Subhash Ghai, Raju Farooqui
Written by Paritosh Painter
Music - Sajid Wajid
Cinematography - P. Shelvakumar
Music by Sajid-Wajid
Cinematography Selva Kumar
Film Editing by Manish More
Art Direction by Ashish Anant Ranade
Sound - Ashish Manchanda, Gunjan Srivastava
Visual Effects by Salil Deshpande, Achal Muchhala, Rajiv
Raghunathan, Parantap Singh, Muthu Stalin
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The story starts with three friends Bhavesh, Parag and
Parikshit (Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey and Aashish
Chaudhary respectively) who are paying guests in Kiska
Minglani's (Asrani's) house.
Then. Jayesh (Vatsal Seth), who is a Parikshit's cousin,
joins them. Overnight, they are thrown out of the house
and then begins the crazy hunt for a house.
Now, they end up at Ballu
Singh (Johnny Lever) and his wife Sweety's (Delnaaz Paul)
house. The crazy Sikh landlord Ballu puts forth a
condition that they would allow only couples as paying
guests.
They give in to his condition
but how - they are all bachelors! Who will play their
wives? Thus, Aashish Chaudhary and Vatsal Seth then
introduce themselves as married couples with Shreyas
Talpade and Javed Jaffrey posing as their respective
wives. The story then shows all the different situations
which the four friends face while trying to hide their
reality.
The new drama triggers a series of confusions that builds
into the rich complexities of mistaken identities and a
climax of comic wizardries.
Asrani stands out, while Viju
Khote and Paintal are just okay. Chunkey Pandey and Inder
Kumar who are in negative roles are just wasted.
Cinematographer P. Shelvakumar
has done a good job what with some eye pleasing fresh
locales of Bangkok and Pattaya, but the climax towards the
end is just mediocre.
- Aniz Filmvala
Cast:
Shreyas Talpade - Bhavesh Verma / Karishma
Javed Jaffrey - Parag Melwani / Kareena
Aashish Chaudhary - Parikshit Pandey
Vatsal Seth - Jayesh Takhur
Celina Jaitley - Kalpana
Sayali Bhagat - Seema
Neha Dhupia - Aarti Gupta
Riya Sen - Arpita
Johnny Lever - Ballu Singh
Delnaaz Paul - Sweety Singh
Chunky Pandey - Ronnie
Inder Kumar - Murli
Asrani - Kiska Minglani
Paintal - Appa
Viju Khote
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