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Rama Rama…where’s the drama?

NOTHING FUNNY: Ashish Choudhary, Rajpal Yadav, Neha Dhupia and Amrita Arora in the film.

Film: Rama Rama Kya Hai Drama

Cast: Ashish Choudhary, Neha Dhupia and Amrita Arora

Direction: S. Chandrakaant

This is a ‘drop-in-for-10-minutes-and-move-out’ kind of movie.

Not many uncomfortable questions asked, no inconvenient answers expected. A little chuckle here, a little laugh there. Purists can squirm, mediocrity rules the agenda for entertainment here!

Of its four leading actors, three of them nurture zero talent.

Ashish Choudhary, Neha Dhupia and Amrita Arora are not quietly likely to appeal to anybody with their craft. And poor Rajpal Yadav? Well, he is poor. Saddled with a script that expects him to be a Prince Charming with a dash of humour, he is found out too. This comedy of married men struggling to keep their spouses happy, is as old the jokes 40-plus men share over a cigarette and more! Director S. Chandrakaant’s movie starts with the story of a short man – of course, Rajpal Yadav, who else? – who marries a Kota girl, Neha Dhupia.

He is a kind of upper division clerk in a bank, whose ambience – and some of the staff members – resembles that of a hep multinational corporation. She a housewife, who munches popcorn, watches TV. And practically nurtures boredom. She has an elderly couple, Anupam Kher, and the outrageously out-of-shape Rati Agnihotri as neighbours.

He is henpecked, she, well, never mind. Then we have Ashish and Amrita as the other couple. He is a bank manager, she, well, a kind of social butterfly, who looks like a 30-year-old and dresses up like a teenager by the beach! All of the guys try to please their wives, the wives suspect their hubbies! Yawn. We have seen that. At times even enjoyed that. But one more time, and that too related in a pedestrian way? No, not this time. Despite an occasional laugh, and a couple of clean jokes, the film does not hold.

No pace

The pace is not there. The script is weak, the dialogue forgettable. The drama? Weak and predictable. Music? A couple of songs are thrust, a dance number or two added for visual relief. You do one thing: By God, let “Rama…” be. Look for drama elsewhere.

ZIYA US SALAM

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