LAUGHINGey PARINDAY is a remake of all 3 South Indian Films!
Yash Chopra's production Lafangey Parinday is about two chawl friends Nandu and Pinky. Nandu is a small time rowdy and Pinky is a skate dancer who wants to win a reality show. A few reels later, her dreams are shattered as she is been hit with a car and in the process looses her eye sight. And Nandu takes care of her, becomes her strength and dances with her and becomes her eyes.. Reason: Guilty as he was the one who hit her and Pinky is unaware of this. When the reality opens up, there is a break up and then filmi style patch up!
This film is a take off from old Rajesh Khanna film Dushman but a remake also of the Tamil film Thulladha Manamum Thullam (Vijay and Simran) remade in Telugu as Nuvvu Vastavani (Nagarjuna and Simran) and then in Kannada as Oh Nanna Nalle (Ravichandran and Isha Kopikkar).
The film fails miserably in its screenplay. As central as it is to the flick, Lafangey's key plot twist is one of the places where it blows it. When the promos show a blind heroine, and the film opens with a heroine who is not blind, the impending disaster that you're expecting to handicap her makes the first act of the film a less-than-thrilling experience. Pradeep Sarkar who gave Parineeta gave Chunari Main Daag and his Daag is not removed as Lafangey is not upto the mark. Its the music by R Anand that is fresh and Deepika's performance that one can watch for. Mukesh is not convincing as the Boxer. Aditya Chopra, stop producing Reality show based films (Aaja Nachle, Rab Ne Bana di and now Lafangey)! Instead Yashji wake up and get going to switzerland and bring those nostalgic snowfalls and chiffon sarees, as even today, those will be cherished!
On the whole, this film was more of a Laughing Parindey! Laughing because, you will feel like for the way the actors behave on screen. Except Deeps the rest are not convincing. Its a total Padukone film. Also, a film that can be viewed and forgotten the next moment. Nothing to watch it and recommend too!
Sundeep Malani
Film Critic
Aditya Chopra has money, so he can afford to make such a film, the others will take part in this film coz they are earning from it. I do not fimd answer - why Sundeep spends his hard earn money and valuable time watching such a film ??? I envy him for his money, time and ability to face torture.
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