The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : As lewd as it gets Sanju baba raises the bar, so be it!

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Monday, May 15, 2006

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

As lewd as it gets Sanju baba raises the bar, so be it!

FLOP SHOW: Dino Morea, Jimmy Shergill and Anuj Saawhney in `Tom, Dick and Harry.'

Tom, <15,9p,,0><74,150,200,500><109,96>Dick and Harry (Hindi)

<15,9p,,0>Cast:<15,9p,,0><109,96><109,96><74,150,200,500> Dino Morea, Jimmy Shergill and Anuj Saawhney

Director: <15,9p,,0><74,150,200,500><109,96>Deepak Tijori

If Sinha takes a step forward with "Tathastu," Deepak Tijori takes two back with "Tom Dick and Harry," a film so drenched in vulgarity that for a while inside the hall you wish you also momentarily suffered from the handicaps of the film's heroes: deaf, dumb, blind.

It is embarrassing, it is obnoxious, it is crude. And Tijori manages to take insensitivity to a new low: his heroes are all laughed at for their limitation, and the director makes their handicap into his licence to put together sequences where even a modicum of dignity is cast aside in pursuit of cheap thrills.

Talking of cheap thrills, they are plenty here, and might just keep the turnstiles busy.

But the success, however limited, of such a film marks the failure of a society that is yet to treat its specially-abled people with anything other than pity or ridicule. The moderation point is still a vacuum.

`Disgusting'

Here Dino Morea plays a guy with hearing impairment, Jimmy Shergill with speech handicap and Anuj Saawhney with vision problems. That the three laugh at their handicap is fair enough: We have had too many weepy sagas down the line. But it gets disgusting when the people around take potshots at them in this confused story of three guys in a rented apartment who struggle to pay their rent, and dream of beautiful girls. Dino, on his part, manages to score a point or two over Jimmy who gets the tougher role of projecting everything with gestures. And Saawhney? Well, anybody who gave him acting certificate should immediately be asked to confiscate the same. To call him mediocre will be to compromise with truth: he is hopeless. Much like Celina Jaitley who is as wooden now as in the past.

Stay away from this film. Its vulgarities, mainly featuring Rakesh Bedi and Kunika are intolerable. Its insensitivity is unbearable. These laughs are real expensive, man.

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