Paying Guest

After a long time movies are been shown at the multiplexes and one of the new releases is Mukta Arts’ Paying Guest. Many of us know that this movie has been directed by Paritosh Painter and he has done the job well because copying a script and making another comedy out of it is not an easy task.

Many of us know that this movie is a remake of a Marathi comedy “Ashi hi Banwa Banwi” which did well at that time. In my opinion PG may not do that well but people waiting to see a comedy and that too on a multiplex screen won’t mind spending on this one. People who are familiar with the original may have a look on it as a remembrance and those who have not seen that movie may watch it to see Shreyas and Javed in a woman’s getup.

I won’t say it was a mind boggling comedy as it had same old comic lines (in a bit different way of course) and those double meaning sentences which Indian audience might have experienced before in some of the comedy reality shows. The location of Bangkok was picturised nicely and the music is also ok with Sonu’s Rabbula Rabi and Shaan’s Jack n Jill. Ladies were not at all necessary but Heroes must have their heroines, I guess, so they have been adjusted here and there.

Within a two hours time you will not find the movie a slow pace but it has also not given much exposure to the characters (even the old one ran for two and half hours). Having a multi-star cast is a tough job but they all did their part well enough to keep movie in the shape. Asrani, Gufi Paintel and Inder Kumar played guest appearances I think. Riya Sen and Vatsal Seth (Tarzan, the wonder car fame) had not much to do but Javed, Ashish and Shreyas did their work as expected. Chunky, as a comic villain have tried to put some impression on the audience but his lines were already heard somewhere (in other movie or TV shows).Celina, Sayali and Neha, as I said earlier, were put to make up couples and they had nothing much to do. Rest is the story you have to watch on the screen. Johny and Delnaz in the role of Punjabi husband and Gujju wife have done well enough with same old Khichdi style of wife using wrong words and husband interpreting in the right way.

The disappointing part was the last scene which reminds me of Naseeruddin Shah’s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’s Mahabharata scene but was not the 10 % comedy of it.

I will rate movie a two star. Please give your opinions after watching the movie.