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"You will die laughing" claims the tagline for Buddha Mar Gaya, and it is partially correct. If you won't die of shock, you are sure to be killed off by the crude toilet humour. Director Rahul Rawail is more at home with hard-hitting social dramas, so comedy is completely uncharted territory for him, and it shows. His very noble intentions of using the garb of black comedy to bring taboo subjects like homosexuality, extra-marital affairs and drug addiction out of the closet fail miserably, as the audience is left meandering through a shoddy screenplay and over the top performances.
LK (Anupam Kher) is a multi-millionaire who opens his company to a public issue to make even more money from shareholders. The octogenarian's greedy family, complete with a randy twin sister, secretly gay son, his cocaine addict sibling, and wannabe it-girl daughter, begin counting the cash even before the shares hit the market. But fate has a wicked twist in store for them, as LK breathes his last in the midst of a seedy romp with a struggling actress (Rakhi Sawant). As the news of the CEO's death would result in an inevitable crash of the company's shares, the only solution before his money-grabbing relatives is to forget their personal rivalries and work together to keep the news of the death a secret. To discover whether they succeed in this morbid plot you must endure hours of blundering episodes with the dead man's body.
"POOR SCRIPT AND SHAMBOLIC PERFORMANCES"
It is painful to watch veteran actors like Prem Chopra and Om Puri reduced to ridiculous tom-foolery that is more pathetic than funny. Paresh Rawal is seen desperately struggling to make the most of a poor script and shambolic performances around him. But even his genius fails to salvage this film from the depths of mediocrity. The best thing about the film is Anupam Kher, who plays a corpse to perfection.
In English with Hindi subtitles.
Buddha Mar Gaya (The Old Man is Dead) is out in the UK on 17th August 2007.
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